I won't deny the fact that sleep is good for our health. Getting enough sleep at night help to keep our brain so refreshed and active for our next day's activities. However, most of us work late into the night and many students also study at night to meet up with their set goals. For me to stay up at night and still be active while working, then it must be planned otherwise, I will doze off within a few minutes.
I am not in the category of people who takes something to stay awake. I tried such back then when I was still in the university but it never worked for me. I also tried soaking my legs inside a bucket of water as suggested by some students but found myself sleeping on top of my book 📚 till the next morning. The truth is that sleep is a natural phenomenon designed to happen so commonly at night and for you to cheat nature, then you must be deliberate about it.
So what did I do to stay up late back then in school?...
Firstly, I formed some groups of studies among my classmates. We are five in that group who have almost the same level of zeal toward education. So going to night class, we go together and study together mostly through group discussion of different subjects. With this method, I stay up late and alert until our studies are over usually 3 hours so we can catch up with enough sleep as well. Then whenever I didn't make it to study with my group, I must sleep early and wake up at night to read, by then, my body system must have relaxed.
Another important thing I do then was reading on a desk and chair instead of reading on my bed 🛏️. I see a lot of students who read on their beds and I smile. Well, naturally some people are just gifted by staying up late with any position whether lying down or sitting but then, many people invite sleep on their own by lying down to study. When you sit up at your desk and chair, even your brain and other of your body system will be notified naturally that you mean business 😂, and sleep will be far away. This is an interesting tactic that worked for me then.
Even now as a blogger, I work mostly at night. After attending to my motherhood duties during the day, I feel so much exhausted, and staying up late becomes difficult. So what I do sometimes is to sleep, relax and get rid of the stress then wake up towards 4 am when the environment is still so calm and I began to write. This has been the best time to think 💬💬 and write without any distractions from anyone. Times, when ideas flow, I write and save them in my draft pending when I want to publish. Reading posts and replying to comments can be done any time during the day but for content creation, it's best done for me at night after catching some sleep to rest my brain 🧠.
This is my response to the #hivelearners community contest on the topic titled LATE NIGHT
Thanks for reading!!
Remember, to keep staying positive and be happy 😊 🧡🤗😍🥳