Pure conjectural or anecdotal but it is my intuition that there is something to it

  • @cheese_greaterOP
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    33 days ago

    different kinds of tired

    Can you described some of these, intrigued

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      There’s exhaustion, which builds up and is relieved gradually with sleep, and is effectively masked by caffeine. Then there’s the feeling of incomplete/interrupted sleep; maybe the quality of sleep was poor somehow, maybe you were woken up by an alarm in the middle of a sleep cycle, but it’s painful, cognitively debilitating, and sticks around like a splinter in your brain. Caffeine doesn’t help it at all, but it can be completely relieved by a nap in which you succeed in falling completely asleep even just for a few minutes, which caffeine does not prevent from happening.

      I don’t know how much of that is objectively how it works for everyone, but that’s how I understand it.