I’m super drowsy even though I had some caffeine. I’m drinking lots of water and eating healthy foods, but is there anything else I can do in the meantime?
How do you make yourself feel better after a poor night of sleep?
Edit: It went well! The director even said, “we should just hire you now!” However, I have one more panel interview. Time for a nap.
Before the interview, go outside and look up towards the sun with your eyes closed.
Feel the warmth of the sun radiate on your face and body. Take deep breaths, but hold your exhales until discomfort.
This will trigger your body to wake up and be alert.
I would go home sick for the day and take a nap, then show up for the interview well-rested. Caffeine will make you feel more alert for a short while, but it won’t really help your brain.
The holy trinity of mental clarity is to take a hike, a shower, and then a nap, cyclically in that order. Best advice that ever reached me. I explain it here, but basically it’s like companion planting: hikes get energy flowing and help with exposure, showers/hydration get rid of impurities and inspire epiphanies (I guess the mists do this), and sleep allows your mind to rest but also wander with all of that. If you can’t do one, do the other two (caffeine is not good for people, that “wakefulness” is just a high).
Or you could always be like Satoshi Tajiri during his interviews and wing it based on 24 hours of no sleep (he would help with making games for 24 hours and sleep for 12 and repeat the cycle, he even had his bed at the Gamefreak HQ for a time, and one time the BBC or whatever caught him during the end of the 24 and was like “is this a bad time”).
I like the suggestion overall because it actually is pretty medically sound, but “impurities“ is just a meaningless term. You have a liver/kidney/etc. to get unwanted things out of your body. Diets and sweating doesn’t “remove” toxins or impurities or whatever buzzword is bouncing around the crunchy world .
By impurities I meant literal impurities, as in you get clean.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone describe taking a shower as “removing impurities” but hey if that’s your intended meaning then cool!
For your future reference, “impurities” is kind of a catchall, meaningless term that health quacks throw around. “Do a juice cleanse, it’ll remove your impurities and toxins.”
Sorry about that. English isn’t my first language and I often have to alternate between semantic “modes” if that makes sense.
Don’t sweat it, you just unfortunately tripped up on a VERY charged word lol. Again, your advice is good! Getting the body moving and cardiovascular/pulmonary systems cranking is good for waking up and feeling energized. Showers just feel damn good too.
I’ve an interview schedule in few hours as well.
Try taking cold shower and a coffee afterwards.
Not a good answer, but I would try to reschedule the interview.
Otherwise a power nap and/or a cold shower. Plus no food.
Studies say creatine supplementation can help reduce the impacts of sleep deprivation. There are also some mushrooms that you can get in supplement form that help get your brain working.
I’ll take some. I’m already taking it but I’ll double up on my dose today.
How do you make yourself feel better after a poor night of sleep?
What I do, I definitely wouldn’t recommend. It’s definitely unhealthy.
If I feel weak and shaky, I’ll dissolve like 15 teaspoons of sugar in a cup of water and drink that. Then flush that down with extra water. Obviously only if I don’t need to go anywhere, otherwise I wouldn’t drink a lot of water.
But maybe it’s not that bad. To be honest, I have no idea how much sugar is in regular soda.
I don’t think that’s worse than soda at all, probably healthier because there’s no additives
That does sound pretty terrible. While sugar can quicken you up in the very specific case that you’re literally acutely hypoglycemic, that’s also about the only reason to do this.
suck as many icecubes as you possibly need
I take kratom. Really wakes you up and makes you feel mentally quick.
Obviously won’t help you now. But in the future you can be prepared.
The gas station stuff? It wakes you up?
You can buy it online, there are different versions but if you take it in small doses it is a stimulant.