Context: My “hardware” was “made in China” (I was born in China)
Okay sorry stupid joke, but I remember having a conversation about global manufacturing and how everything is “made in China” then my mom was like: “You are also made in China” lmfao
(But seriously tho, it’s just depression, can’t sleep, hence this showerthought)
I still remember when I first got here, I remember the jetlag. It’s almost exactly 12 hours apart, literally just flipping day and night. I remember my brain getting so confused the first couple weeks.
I have sufferef from bad insomnia my whole life. On a good night, I would lay in bed for a couple hours with my eyes closed trying to fall asleep. On a bad night, I’d lay like that until my alarm went off in the morning, and then I’d get up, shower, and go to work. That (not sleeping at all) would happen at least once a week for years.
I tried a lot of things. I tried prescription meds. They didn’t work. I tried booze. No luck.
On Reddit about 10 years ago I came across a post about a podcast. The Sleep With Me Poscast.
It doesn’t work for everyone, but it was like a miracle for me. The guy running the podcast is so incredibly boring and the episodes are so unbelievably meaningless that I could actually feel myself falling asleep while trying to follow his meandering stories.
When I first started listening, I’d play one episode, but then when the episode ended, I’d wake up. Then I started setting it to play all episodes without stopping, but then I’d sleep through my alarm. I finally had to set a sleep timer to stop the podcast a minute or two before my alarm.
Wow, it’s like your srain needs something to hold on to! I’m glad you found that podcast.