🌷Ink Balance🌷: Longer nights, shorter sleep
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Longer nights, shorter sleep

These nights are getting way too long, that I am not able to close my eyes and sleep properly.


Random thoughts and anxiety of future fills in as soon as I try to close my close. It seems like the darkness is being swallowed by the light of anxiety.

May be these shorter sleep cycles are due to the uncertainty of my life or some habit changes in recent times. My eyes swollen on most days. Dark circles have started appearing. Hairloss is more.

I have been recently facing difficulty to fall asleep at night. I do sleep, but for a shorter period of time–fall asleep by 1:30 or 2am and wake up by 7:00am. This accounts for 5 hours of sleep.

I do get sleepy in the afternoon, by 3:30 and the power nap extend till 4:00PM. After which I wake up.

I do feel tired, but by having good food, I am able to drive my body and mind and endorse my energy levels. I keep myself hydrated too. 

I hope it's gets better, in coming days and I get better sleep at night. 

The only thing that drives me is that I am able to have some good food at home.