Im one of those people who is obsessed with sleep.
If I managed to get eight and a half hours?
I will feel really smug about that all day and probably segue it into a conversation at least once.
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Considering all of the above, I should love TikToks latest wellness obsession, sleepmaxxing.
Taping your mouth shut.
No liquids two hours before bed.
Sleeping in a really cold room.
Something called pineal gland meditation.
You get the idea.
This is not my first rodeo.
When the iPhone introduced its first integrated sleep-tracking app back in 2020, I remember becoming hypnotized by it.
This was only compounded by being able toseethe lack of sleep in front of me, in numbers.
Getting less than six hours a night can shorten a persons life span.
Sleep, I was told, from every single angle, is literallya matter of life and death.
Obviously, if theres one thing thats always going to negatively impact your sleep cycle, its anxiety.
Multiple studieshave foundthat sleep problems are much more common among individuals with anxiety disorders.
The actual act of becoming obsessed with sleep was, I realized, negatively impacting my sleep.
And usually, the moment I relinquish control is also the moment I drift into slumber.
