I've decided to go nocturnal

[Azley]

Starting today I’m going to aim to wake up around midnight or 1… gives me 5 or 6 hours before work to enjoy real free time in a quiet world. Then I have 7 to 8 hours of work. Then I come home and eat dinner… unwind for a few and practice music… then go to sleep by 5 or 6 pm…

I’ll use my time at work to continue to adjust living with this illness and interacting with people, but I get to start my day finding peace for myself while I’m not physically exhausted or mentally stressed. I think it’s a better system for myself.

So I’ve woken up at this point… had a solid meal and now I’m going to play fallout 4 for 1.5 hours… then work out and shower and still have about an hour before work where I’m going to cook up a load of pasta and rice.

I’ve decided to cut beef out of my diet. Just have fish and chicken. Also bought a thing of tofu to mess around with. I figured if I cut it into the right size and microwave it I can get a lot of the moisture out… when tofu is done right it can have an apparently very meaty texture…

Things are going well. It took two trazodone pills to get to sleep early yesterday so I’m still feeling the aftermath of that.

I’m done partying and really even going down town. No more expensive coffees from beautiful baristas… No more nights out getting drunk just to wind up passing out at someone else’s place just to wake up and have to pick up the pieces… no more rolling exhaustion or being unshaven before work… Just a couple hours of video games and computer messing about in the morning to space me out to the “psychotic scenario” that underpins my psychosis… 2 hours of rejecting the validity of my hallucinations the best I can.

I think it’s going to work to bring me a lot of peace.

[anon93437440]

I didn’t read your entire post why because I can’t read, I can’t read in a sense my Brain doesn’t cooperate me reading anything. When I was a kid I would read entire story book in one setting. I too want to wake at night and sleep in the morning but it is not possible to do so for the reasons I am Dependant on others. If I am self sufficient then I can go nocturnal. I think going nocturnal is one of the best things to do if you live in a Computer World.

[anon62310808]

I too like the quiet time during midnight. Serenity. No neighbors slam doors like daytime. No vehicles pass by. And it is cooler.
I hope it will be a better system for you.

[crimby]

I’ve been following that schedule for a while, though my sleep pattern varies on the weekend. I like getting up at 2:00 am and having all those quiet hours to myself. Those are the coolest, clearest hours of the day for me. By the afternoon and evening I’m too stressed out to do much good.