• awkwardparticle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Write that shit down. I know it feels wrong spending the energy and possibly waking yourself up more but you will always remember your genus ideas that your idiot brain rather think about than sleep.

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      1 year ago

      Sleepy brain is weird. I’m a programmer that also writes music. I learned a long time ago that when I write music when I’m half asleep, if I wake myself up and write it down, it’s already a song that exists, I just didn’t recognize it when I was half asleep. But I can absolutely solve my programming problems while half asleep. I have even solved them in my dreams before. If I get up and write down my idea, or even just my new perspective, I can turn it into code later and it will work (usually).

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      1 year ago

      Some people think that people who seem to get their stride later are actually just super early morning people. Also potentially theories around biphasal sleep.

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        1 year ago

        I sleep multiple times a day, but not by will. It’s my body’s natural state. At work I’ll just setup my afternoon tasks in the morning, and since I work from home, I can then nap. I wake up and am fully ready to go.

        I got nothing done yesterday morning, but in the afternoon I knocked out 4 JIRAs in under 3 hours. Nothing majorly complex, but I just can’t get my brain going in that mindset until the afternoon.