Sleep Debt
I tend to go to bed around 11pm each night and awake at 7am (even on the weekends as I have young kids) and I still feel like I am lacking sleep and I am often tried during the day. This I know is direct a result of my (poor) quality of sleep. I often wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble getting back to sleep. I have tried a few things to address this: sleep apnoea tests, having coffee cut off at 2pm, I run redshift on my laptop (light balancer). I don&#x27;t smoke or drink and I am not over weight.<p>I feel I still have a ton of sleep debt from my two children. Prior to having kids I never felt tired and could have really long deep sleeps. My wife then had our first and then second daughter and its not to often I have had a night of sleep without someone waking up the family at 3am in the night. They are getting better now (3 &amp; 7 years old), but my sleep is not recovering with them maturing in their own ability to sleep all night.<p>I often joke to my wife I would like to be hospitalised for two weeks and put on a large dosage of Morphine coupled with a food drip and just crash for two weeks.<p>I do need to get on top of this though, as it really can interfere with my work (programmer). I feel tired a lot. I work from home, and I quite often pull out the futon in my home office and crash for 30 minutes in the afternoon.