@aldersprig i call it insomnia. I’ve had it for months and months and my doctor was on board with me calling it insomnia. I have to get up and go read a calm book or play solitaire or something.
People keep telling me about this article about how people in the past used to do this regularly before we had artificial light, but I would find this much more comforting if I felt I was getting enough sleep. Which I’m not.
@gannet @aldersprig@tootplanet.space yeah, that's the thing--it's "normal/natural" for humans, but we don't live that way now, and if it's interfering with getting enough sleep to function then yeah, it's effectively insomnia. I usually play a couple of games of Solitaire and fall back asleep easily enough, but not everybody can. :/
