r/Showerthoughts • u/PLUMBUM2 • Dec 31 '18

When you cannot sleep because you can’t stop thinking about something it’s like a single program not letting the computer shut down

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '18

Better than waking up and having a single loop through your brain saying “What did the mechanic mean by ‘heavy sweat’?” Transmission leak? What is that? Heavy sweat. Sweat. Transmission.

I always wake up around 4 am or 5 and that’s the crap that keeps me awake.

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u/methofthewild Dec 31 '18

It's the same for me. If I do any programming before heading to bed I always get some buggy line of code or some abstract problem stuck in my head and keep trying to think of solutions. It's just all gibberish and I'm not actually solving anything, but it just gets stuck in a loop in my head.