Time your sleep to align with 90 minute cycles. 7h 30m for example works great for me but 8h has me feeling rough

We may have been well rested back then, but also suffering from severe depression during covid.

So I grew up in a country where alcohol is legal from age 16 and parents often allow a drink to their kids even earlier (I’ve seen 12 year olds with their non-trash parents at a beer tent with a beer-lemonade-mix. Bavarian people man).

So one evening my mom gave me a small glass of champagne and somehow put a small shot of vodka inside. I was probably 15.

The next day I woke up at 9:30 am, as early as never on a weekend, feeling well rested, and my chronic headache was gone. I was flabbergasted. My mom was flabbergasted.

Needless to say that memory of a perfect morning might have partly fueled my alcohol problem later on

Feels. I had a life-changing dump years and years ago.

I had that once too!! When I was was 15 :0 then I took 10 steps outside, and i guess my body remembered that it wasnt supposed to feel good. It literally felt like my depression came crashing down on me like a waterfall lol