Why does everything feel worse when I’m tired?
· Source: Yoo, Gujar, Hu, Jolesz & Walker, Current Biology, 2007
A bad night doesn’t make everything worse. It mostly makes the hard parts land harder.
Why does everything feel worse when I’m tired?
After a night awake, bad news hit harder. In a 2007 brain-scan study, people kept awake for about 35 hours reacted about 60% more strongly to upsetting pictures than people who had slept. Neutral pictures landed about the same. Save big conclusions for after you sleep. Tonight, say what stung and how you slept. If it can wait, give it a time tomorrow. Say it tonight. Read it rested. Halflight keeps it under today’s date, so tomorrow you can see what still matters.