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Warning: Binged 9 episodes of a show in one Saturday and something weird happened to my sleep
I started The Bear on a Saturday morning around 10am and by 7pm I had blown through 9 episodes without moving off the couch. The next 3 nights I kept waking up at 3am feeling wired, which never happens to me, and I'm guessing it was from staring at a screen for that long in one sitting. Has anyone else noticed their sleep get wrecked after a big binge day, or is it just me getting old?
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gray_morgan23d ago
Man, the 3am wake up thing is so real and it's not just you getting old. What's actually going on is way worse than just screen time. Your brain got slammed with like 9 hours of intense emotional story all at once, the same way it would if you lived through a crazy week of real drama. So when you finally stop and try to sleep, your head is still spinning through all those plot twists and feelings and it jolts you awake like your body thinks something is still happening. The crazy part is binge watching messes with your dopamine so hard that your brain keeps craving the next episode even after you stop, which is why you feel wired instead of tired. That's basically the same loop that makes gambling and junk food so hard to quit, just milder. Next time try cutting it to 3 or 4 episodes and see if the 3am stuff goes away, because I bet it will.
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