Just a random thought I have currently because here I am, usually running on less than 5 hours of sleep during the week. Then like today, I get 9 hours of sleep and have a nice slow start to the day with a nice cup of coffee and I feel dead.

It is times like this that makes me question modern sleep advice because when I finally get “what I need” I feel substantially worse and wonder why I slept in in the first place.

That makes me casually wonder if there is a similarity to addiction, because the extra sleep feels like what is described as withdrawals. Is extra sleep good for me but since I for the most part don’t do it, the short run experience is discomfort but if I kept at it, I would have more long-run health benefits like someone who got off of a debilitating drug addiction?

Or is this evidence that consistency is more important and while it is difficult to operate on low sleep but with me trying to compensate for a “sleep debt” more harmful since it disrupts a pattern?

Anyways, that’s how my Saturday is going.