For the second night in a row, I am exhausted early about 10 PM. How I deal with it depends upon what type of exhaustion I have. Last night, it was mental exhaustion, and I could not find some mindless TV, so I retreated to the sofa and read for a while, until I was ready to go to sleep. That worked, except that I was ready to get up about 4 AM, which was not practical given my schedule. So I dozed in bed and had very strange dreams, and even some hallucinations (which has happened to me before in this situation) but is not psychotic so much as altered state due to changed sleep pattern.
So, tonight, I am exhausted early again. But tonight it is a combination of physical and mental exhaustion, and I know that going to bed at 9:30 PM would be disastrous because I would be up about 3:30 AM and unable to go back to sleep, but it would affect my functioning at work.
So I persevered until now, about 11:30 PM, and am still not quite ready to go to bed, but ready to read again for a while and then go to sleep. That will be about the right mix, I think.
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