#It will probably be like 9 hours long

[erinwantstowrite]

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i have not slept and it's like 2AM and im now feeling tired but i locked tf in to draw this i just HAD to finish before bed i will be more coherent tomorrow anyways. gay superbat. have

[welcometogrouchland]

Tell me why my university has scheduled me for 17 hours per week this semester. I do a film degree btw

[chiimeramanticore]

waow

[breezypunk]

I was out from 11:30 A.M to almost 7 P.M since my brother graduated high school (congrats to him, he finally made it, and also it was so nice seeing all the graduates walk and make speeches, I loved it. Shout-out to the graduate representing Palestine <3)

But I get home at almost 7 P.M, still in my jeans which I NEVER wear cos I hate jeans, but sometimes ya gotta lmao, I lay down for a moment cos I'm exhausted, and before I know it it's 3:30 in the morning. -.- I took a NAP.... for 8 hours. Now I'm wide awake & wondering what fucking year it is cos there's no way, lol.

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

One time I bitched to my dad about how my pizza got cold while I was looking for something good to watch on YouTube. He just stared blankly at me and said that in 1987 he would get home from his evening shift towing helicopters at work with a pizza, flick through his like 6 channels and hope there was something good on TV. On a good day it was a M*A*S*H rerun or Letterman. On a bad day, he was watching coronation street or “something equally shit”. Now every time I go to get a slice and can’t find something on YouTube, I just pull up an old Kurtis Connor video and pretend I’m sitting in a dark bachelor apartment in 1987 and I found a channel playing a M*A*S*H rerun. Occasionally I put on Coronation Street highlights so I can understand the suffering my ancestors went through when they got a piping hot pizza pie and had to watch shitty TV. It’s like LARPing.

[lesbiansanemi]

I have my psych testing tomorrow and apparently it’s supposed to winter storm fuckkkkk me

[ikilledamanforthisurl]

in the interests of staying comfortable in my room, with the trade-off of feeling kinda bad about it, i have skimped out on going to a gig, which may have been mildly painful and overwhelming to go to but would have made me feel really really good, because my friends are going, and my friends are playing, and they love me and come awwnnn theres no reasons not to go

[cherry-chaos-cola]

controversial opinion but I feel like causing problems on purpose. I know Ghirahim is the interesting one and normal people multiship him or focus on his character but I just do not care about him like that <3 I am here for ghiraLINK zeLINK whoever you're shipping him with x LINK. skyward sword Link (and skyward sword ONLY 😤 thee first Link if Hyrule Historia hadn't rewritten history 😡) is my blorbo 💕❤️💘🥺💖😩💕❤️😫🩷💖💞 and Ghirahim is just some guy

[tragedykery]

I was tagged by @koheletgirl and @djpuppy to do this a few days ago, ty!! sorry I forgor </3

[ID: two “receipts” from receiptify. the first one shows my most played songs on spotify in the last month:

jêl caerdydd by calan

pa le mae nghariad i by calan

chwedl y ddwy ddraig by calan

kân by calan

rew-di-ranno by calan

autre temps by alcest

saranga dariya by mangli

lullaby by low

sinnerman by nina simone

far over misty mountains cold by clamavi de profundis

the second one shows the same but for artists:

calan

florence + the machine

hozier

mitski

rina sawayama

fiona apple

meet me @ the altar

jinjer

the amazing devil

black hill

/end ID]

tagging: @satans-poptarts @saintdaffodil

[trickstump]

i don't mean to be alarmist but there's a potential that fob's set is 2 hours long.

[manebioniclegali]

Tip: if you're going to be using your phone at night, use a blue light filter. Don't make it harder on your brain to let sleep catch you. Typically any built-in eye comfort modes aren't going to be enough, because you need to be able to turn your brightness down more as well. I don't know what's out there for Apple, but I use Twilight on Android, and it works wonders. Been using it since 2015, and it's helped a lot. (On desktop, I use f.lux on candlelight, the darkest setting. I actually found them both from the same Tumblr post lol)

I use multiple alarms not particularly cuz I might sleep through them (although sometimes I do), but bc they help me wake up easier than just one. I allow myself time to snooze them and come to terms with being awake so that way, by the time the last one comes up, I'm (hopefully) ready to finally get out of bed. Not everyone has enough energy right when they wake up to pull themselves out of bed; sometimes they need like 45 minutes or more to adjust to a different state of consciousness

I think the eight alarms thing is usually a maladaptation. You've trained your brain to ignore the eight alarms because you kept avoiding the training of willpower following the first alarm would require. I think some sleep therapy might help?

Hey so first of all fuck you, thanks.

Second: I love it when you read literature on sleep disorders, especially if it's on sleep disorders among folks with ADHD, and you see time and time again "when allowed to sleep on their preferred schedule subjects maintained healthy, normal, restorative sleep cycles" and "effects were not lasting without ongoing intervention; resetting the sleep schedule is a permanent effort."

Like, if I sleep *great* from 6am to 2pm and I wake up feeling rested and alert with no special help but I need to turn off the lights in my house and shut down all electronics at 8pm and beam a spotlight into my face starting at 5am to wake up at seven and feel exhausted all day, I think perhaps it is not actually my sleep cycle that is wrong it is perhaps society that is wrong.

BELIEVE ME, when I find the job that pays well and has decent insurance that lets me exist as a cheerful nighttime ghoul I am jumping on that with both feet. But until then I literally feel better getting six hours of sleep and occasionally sleeping so hard that i can't hear my alarms because of chronic sleep deprivation than I do turning off all the lights in my house and ceasing all activity two and a half hours after I get off of work.

Also: the eight alarms aren't all there to wake me up, it's just that sometimes I *also* sleep through the ones that are supposed to remind me to go sit at my desk and start work. One of the first three usually gets me up, but on a day when I sleep through all three of those I will be sleeping through all eight of them and usually a phone call and someone trying to shake me awake to.

ANYWAY after being treated with melatonin and light therapy and staring listlessly at the ceiling in the dark bored out of my skull with racing thoughts for sleep disorders that I didn't have for like twenty years the single most effective intervention that allowed me to get more sleep as someone with both ADHD and DSPD was to start hanging out and being active in places where it would be easy to fall asleep if the sleep caught me there instead of turning my bedroom into a dark, silent shrine of snoozing. Giving myself permission to fall asleep late instead of laying awake chewing myself up with guilt for not being asleep helped too.

Actually here's some tips for the sleepy bitches in the crowd:

1 - If you're laying down and not falling asleep in half an hour, you're not actually sleepy; read something or get up and do something because you're more likely to get sleepy faster that way than you are staring at the clock going "if I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and forty five minutes of rest when I have to go to work; If I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and twenty minutes of sleep when I have to get up, etc. etc."

2 - Allow yourself to be ambushed by sleep. Fall asleep on your cozy couch. Fall asleep in the comfy chair. Let yourself sleep where you fall asleep instead of dragging yourself to where you're 'supposed' to sleep if doing so will wake you up.

3 - The mythbusters thing. If you just lay down and close your eyes and pretend to rest you will feel more rested when you get up than when you laid down. Laying down to rest is better than nothing, it literally causes cognitive improvements similar to sleep in tests, and knowing that can help take off some of the pressure of not being able to fall asleep and can thus help you fall asleep.

4 - It's okay to "hang out" in the area where you're going to sleep. Read in bed. Play games on your cellphone in bed. If you want to go to sleep put on comfy clothes and bring a chill activity and hang out in your bed to do it so that all you have to do when you start getting sleepy is close your eyes.

5 - It's better to get some sleep than no sleep. Sometimes you look at the clock and it's six AM and whoops, fuck it. Okay, time for bed, don't stress that you're only going to get a few hours, a few hours is better than nothing. Lay down to pretend to rest at least and you'll probably feel okay.

6 - This one sounds silly and might not work for a bunch of people for a bunch of reasons but apparently there's some research suggesting that "well-rested" is a state of mind? I've had a reasonable amount of success with just telling myself "Yeah, I actually feel pretty good," and pushing through the day on a couple of hours of sleep. I don't *recommend* that and you should try to get as much sleep as possible, but yeah the next time you're low on sleep see what happens if you just try to decide to not be tired. It sounded like bullshit to me when I first heard it but I've found some success with it.

7 - This shit is cumulative. If you're doing a couple nights a week on low sleep that's not ideal but you're probably going to be pretty functional and you can work on it. If you overbook and overextend yourself for too long - I'm looking at you college students and new parents - it's going to add up. Try as much as possible to at least keep your sleep deficit nights spread out. (This message brought to you by writing 60k words of fiction in october and completely frying my brain because i wasn't getting enough sleep).

[theonlythingimfuckingisstupid]

slllllowly creeping through this final practice exam. wish there was an answer key but oh well. im just so fucking sleepyyy

[uwooyoungs]

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[phonetutorials]

not to keep fazerblasting you guys with headcanons, but ralph is in my brain...

so - time to talk about ralph's parental backstory. he and his girlfriend were in college when she got pregnant, and wanting to be as present and supportive as he could, ralph dropped out and started working at freddy's around 1982 to financially support them. he moved back in with his parents until he could secure a loan for their future house (say what you will, but the man is dedicated), and finally, the two of them moved in together. ralph encouraged his girlfriend to pursue her studies, which she did...until the later stages of her pregnancy left her so weak that she couldn't.

(tw: death during childbirth (and birth in general tbh, i'm squicking myself out))

everything seemed like it was going smoothly, and doctors assured the couple that things were fine. during the delivery, however, complications arose that led to his girlfriend's death. miraculously, their baby survived; that moment defined how ralph would treat his daughter later, not as a burden, but as a little miracle, a survivor, a remnant of her mother. he held that little girl and fell in love with her. she became his everything.

(end tw)

as a father, ralph vowed to be everything that his own father wasn't: caring, supportive, and empathetic. he considers himself incredibly lucky that coppelia grew up to be as sweet as she did, but in reality, it was because of the way he raised her. as much as the man doubts himself, he really is the ideal parent, especially for becoming a single father through tragedy.

[phagodyke]

worked an hour extra bc they have no respect for my half day but I knew they were gonna do that so whatever..... at least I'm omw home now

[strange-lamp-stranger]

i've been referred to the hospital's psych clinic ! yay !