Sleep Like You Mean It

What This Book Covers

1. The Lie of Sleep
2. Chapter One - Why You’re Always Tired
3. Chapter Two - The System That Never Sleeps
4. Chapter Three - What Sleep Actually Does
5. Chapter Four - The Rhythm We Forgot
6. Chapter Five - Caffeine, Nicotine, and the Fake Energy Economy
7. Chapter Six - The Myth of the Night Owl
8. Chapter Seven - Sleep Debt Is Real
9. Chapter Eight - The Enemies of Sleep
10. Chapter Nine - Nightmares, Dreams, and the Subconscious Portal
11. Chapter Ten - How to Sleep Like a Human Again
12. Chapter Eleven - Wake the Fuck Up

Excerpt

THE LIE OF SLEEP I WAS NEVER taught how to sleep. Not really. Sure, I was told that it was “important.” I remember hearing about REM cycles once in school. Maybe a PowerPoint slide or a worksheet. But no one ever explained why I needed sleep. No one ever told me how it worked, or what it did to my brain, or how not getting enough would ruin my life slowly, invisibly, and completely. What I was taught was how to survive without it. I was taught how to grind. How to show up to work tired. How to drink caffeine. How to tough it out. I was taught that sleep was for the weak, that rest was for people who hadn’t earned their exhaustion yet. I was taught how to feel guilty for laying down. And for...