Dr. Micaela

Now, the fun-ish, I'm a psychologist, so fun means something a little different to me, right?

The fun-ish thing is that sleep doesn't exist in isolation, right?

And for some of us, sleep is so bad.

I've struggled with falling asleep most of my life.

And so I'm not highly motivated to go to sleep because it's not often a very calm experience.

That being said, I also do okay with not a ton of sleep.

So now add another layer of why I'm not motivated to go to sleep.

And then on top of that, no matter how much sleep I get, when I wake up in the morning, I just feel like garbage.

So if I've had not enough sleep, I feel like a level 10 out of 10 of garbage.

And if I have

an ample amount of sleep, I'm like a seven to eight out of 10 of garbage, like in those moments of waking up because it just takes me a while to defrost, right?

It's like I go into hibernation mode when I'm sleeping and it takes a while to get all those systems operational.

And so why bother getting a good night's sleep when there are so many cool things I could be doing and I'm going to feel yucky anyways in the morning, right?

So, and each person has their own constellation of why they don't want to go to sleep, why it's hard maybe not just to fall asleep, but to stay asleep, or they can go to sleep early.

They maybe even can stay asleep pretty nicely, but then they wake up at like three o'clock in the morning and their brains are like, let's go, right?

And so whatever pattern of yours it is, really trying to figure out, okay,

How do I incentivize myself to sleep?

Maybe you don't.

Maybe there's not a great way to incentivize yourself to sleep because sleep is just such a fraught area for you.

And so what are other areas that you might be more motivated to work on, right?