Hi there! I am Ethan!

I didn't know what to title this.

In most weeks, I get 6-8 hours of sleep a day.
Last night, I got 3 hours of sleep.

Generally when I get 6-8 hours of sleep, my day ends up being bad, driven with lots of self-hate and despising myself for being a little bitch and being to shy to open up to other people and to other things such as new foods.
Today, I feel like I can challenge anything today, whether it be starting a conversation with this girl from my COM class or possibly trying a new food. (Even though I say this now, subject to change due to total realization of what's going down.)

More sleep = depressed, low self-esteem, lazy, upset Ethan
Less sleep = happy, "let's go get it!", ready for anything, busy Ethan

So that's weird to me. Just thought I would share.

This is some cool shit.

You should check out the Uberman's sleep schedule. I'd do it, if it wasn't for work.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720

Essentially, the trick of the Uberman's sleep schedule is to trick your mind into entering REM sleep
as soon as you drift into a sleeplike state.

I let my head on the pillow and go into total blackness until I get woken up either by alarm or my room mate for work.

Stormie wrote:

You should check out the Uberman's sleep schedule. I'd do it, if it wasn't for work.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720

Essentially, the trick of the Uberman's sleep schedule is to trick your mind into entering REM sleep
as soon as you drift into a sleeplike state.

I have to follow an 8 hour sleep schedule or my body doesn't get the rest that it needs to properly restore muscle.

Souleater wrote:

I let my head on the pillow and go into total blackness until I get woken up either by alarm or my room mate for work.

It's that easy for some people! It's hard for a guy like me to fall asleep sometimes.

Miles Prower wrote:

It's that easy for some people! It's hard for a guy like me to fall asleep sometimes.

Its really not that hard. All you have to do is clear your mind which takes practice. As easy as it seems, its actually really hard to think about absolutely nothing.

Souleater wrote:

Its really not that hard. All you have to do is clear your mind which takes practice. As easy as it seems, its actually really hard to think about absolutely nothing.

Well with an ADHD mind, it is probably 10 times harder because you have little or no control over the amount that is on your mind unless you take time to practice it which would take too long for me, so I usually wear myself out until I am close to falling asleep and then I go in for the kill.

Miles Prower wrote:

Well with an ADHD mind, it is probably 10 times harder because you have little or no control over the amount that is on your mind unless you take time to practice it which would take too long for me, so I usually wear myself out until I am close to falling asleep and then I go in for the kill.

Well you could do that, but then eventually that is what your body will need to fall asleep. Its honestly just easier to fall into REM or train yourself to control your own mind. Probably healthier too.

Souleater wrote:

Well you could do that, but then eventually that is what your body will need to fall asleep. Its honestly just easier to fall into REM or train yourself to control your own mind. Probably healthier too.

I've come a long way from doing cartwheels into my classroom back in the 2nd grade haha. Throughout High School is when I grew a very strong sense of stability within myself to control my mind and so far it's been working out pretty well for me. NOTE:: High School is when I stopped taking medication for ADHD. If you ever have a kid with ADHD, don't give them that shit, it fucks you up and is as addictive as cocaine and other drugs. Trust me, I have suffered it. Well, not cocaine and other drugs but the ADHD meds.