I didn’t sleep very well on Tuesday night, so I expected Wednesday to be an ordeal. It turns out Wednesday was very normal. I didn’t feel any extra fatigue during the workday and I was mentally as dull as I normally am. I couldn’t even tell that I probably got less than four hours sleep the night before.
After work, I made dinner and expected a big crash after I ate but none came, even as I relaxed on my couch. The only thing that indicated I had a sleep debt was that around 12am, I got really tired quite fast. Usually around that time, I’m still quite wide awake. This time around, I was struggling to make it to bed before I fell asleep.
I woke up around 9:30am this morning and that’s when it started to hit me. I had a lingering amount of fatigue that hung around all day today. I had to have an extra coffee to ward off the tiredness. The human body is an interesting marvel. It has an amazing ability to adapt but you can never cheat it from things it needs like sleep and food. Eventually it’ll catch up to you.