i think i know why in middle school & high school i slept and napped so so so so much. in the mornings it would be so difficult to wake up - almost always experience sleep paralysis. it’s because i’d take two benadryl pills like every night to ward off allergies.Â
i don’t remember when i stopped taking benadryl regularly, but i haven’t taken any at all at least for the past year. so yesterday i took a pill to stop itchiness from rash (food allergy, i think) so i could sleep. it didn’t knock me out (didn’t experience sudden wave of sleepiness), but man, it was so hard waking up this morning. i opened my eyes and the clock said 7:45, and i tried to move to get outta bed, but i just couldn’t. and i’ve felt like lead all morning & afternoon.Â
so, probably going to avoid taking it unless i just have no other choice. weh.
i’ve always considered myself slothful simply because i was sleepy and always wanting/needing to nap in my younger years. well, i now know there was a reason, but it turned into habit, i suppose, in my college years. so...still slothful. whelp.