I keep doing this and I’m starting to realize it’s not even because I’m not tired.

I’ll be exhausted all day.

Tell myself, tonight I’m actually sleeping early.

Then night finally comes.

Nobody needs anything from me. No work. No classes. No messages I have to answer. No responsibilities.

And suddenly going to sleep feels like…

giving up my free time.

So I start bargaining with myself.

“I’ll sleep in 20 minutes.”

“One more video.”

“I barely got any time for myself today.”

Then somehow it’s 2am.

The stupid part is I KNOW I’m borrowing that time from tomorrow. I wake up tired, the next day feels worse, I get less done, and then when nighttime comes I feel like I deserve even more time to myself.

So it just loops.

I’m curious if other people do this too:

are you actually unable to sleep early, or do you kind of… not want the day to end yet?

And if you used to do this but stopped, what actually changed?

I’ve had treatment resistant depression since I was a child and I haven’t experienced happiness once in my entire adult life. My entire waking existence is just robotically going through the motions while I wait to die.

Does anybody else feel like this?

I can enjoy spending time with friends and family, but afterward, I just want to be alone in peace for a while. Is anyone else like this, or am I just getting more introverted?

I just went through my notes app and found a bunch of brilliant ideas I wrote down at 3am last night and they all sound like a different person wrote them. When I'm tired, I'm convinced I can conquer the world but once I've had coffee, I just want to take a nap. it like this a common thing where the night self is way more ambitious and active than the day self. I'd love to know if there's a way to actually bottle this 1am motivation and use it during business hours.

shoes off i get. long flight, feet swell, nobody wants to sit for hours in tight shoes.

but socks off is a different level for me. bare feet out in a tight cabin where everyone is stuck breathing the same air. and then some people walk to the bathroom barefoot which is a whole other thing i cannot unsee.

is it just me being extra or is there an unwritten line here. shoes ok, socks stay on, bare feet never touch anything public.

what is the worst you have seen on a flight

To satisfy myself, I hang from a pull-up bar and raise and lower my legs until I feel an intense tingling sensation that grows stronger and stronger, eventually leading to an orgasm. I first experienced this as a child: while pulling myself up on a climbing bar, I lifted my legs, and my entire body became extremely tense. Just before reaching total exhaustion—as my arms began to tremble—this powerful, blissful feeling set in and spread throughout my whole body. I didn’t know what it was, but I wanted to experience it again and again, so I kept returning to the climbing bar to recreate those sensations. Do any of you recognize this? I would love to meet other men who also masturbate in this way.

I feel like I'm being very vulnerable potentially outing myself as the shitty butt man but does anyone else go to the bathroom and take a shit, clean up as usual- And hear me out, I definitely don't feel like I'm skimping on this part. I definitely go for multiple passes until the paper is clean.

Then soon after I'll just feel unclean down there if that makes sense? I feel like I have to go back and wipe again because it's kinda itchy/uncomfortable and I will often try to revisit the bathroom to do so. Does this happen to anyone else? Am I just awful at wiping my ass?

I’ve done this all my life ;)

Im only 20f and im so tired of being depressed or anguish. I have been depressed since I was in high school. I have been in the psych ward earlier this year multiple medications multiple therapists multiple psychiatrists and still I struggle everyday to go to work, panic attacks about my body no self confidence. Im a cashier at my job and truly I just want to feel beautiful again. I want to NOT care. I want to feel like myself but my head gets too loud. I really dont know how im managing

It’s just weird to me idk why

Hoping this isn’t too tmi, but for context I am very large chested naturally, disproportionately so for having a small ribcage/generally petite figure. I am also autistic and absolutely cannot stand an uncomfortable bra, and underwire is hell for me, so I will only wear one with underwire if I’m dressing up nicely for an evening and the dress/top requires it. Otherwise I like to wear bras without underwire. My mum, almost every single day, brings up my chest, pointing out completely out of nowhere ‘oh that bra is a good one, it’s holding you up well’ or (most of the time) she’ll have a go at me saying my bra isn’t good enough. It’s genuinely daily and it makes me feel so uncomfortable to know she’s thinking about that so often. Sometimes out of nowhere she’ll grab me and try and readjust my bra if it’s not to her liking. If I try and tell her off she just yaps about ‘it’s fine I’m your mum’, and also she constantly threatens to throw out my bras that she doesn’t like (among other clothes, she has thrown out shoes and trousers of mine that she personally doesn’t like without any warning or asking me).

Mind you it’s not like I’m wearing bras that do absolutely nothing, I don’t see an issue with them, and I refuse to feel like I’m being springlocked every second of every day because I have to wear a bra with underwire.

I just want to know if this is weird from my mum and if anyone can relate

I have fallen in love, and currently in. A relationship. I noticed that I catch myself observing my feelings, questioning my motives, and analysing every interaction. I’m emotionally involved, but part of me keeps stepping back to study it. Then I wonder whether all that reflection helps me understand the relationship or keeps me from fully participating in it.

If I really like a show, I won’t watch a full season until the next one is out or I’m in a really good mood to enjoy the last bit. I really like “Chainsmoker Cat” and I do expect a season 2 hopefully. I watched episodes 1-9 or maybe 10 and left 11 and 12 so that I still have new episodes to watch. I haven’t heard of anyone else doing this, it seems like most people watch new episodes as soon as they’re available. Does anyone here do the same or anything similar?

Does anyone else get sad at the end of Saturday Night Live when they're all on stage and the song plays? It feels like a longing.... like the end of an era you can never get back....

I dread nausea. I spend every moment im not nauseous grateful and appreciating life. if i go to hell Satan knows not to set me on fire and stuff but to give me too many high fat snacks in one sitting and watch me face the consequences.

like experiencing the confusion of not knowing which hole this bullshit is about to exit out of, and your body just making you go limp. the deep slow breaths, the piercing bathroom lighting, not knowing whether to call somebody for help or to work your way through it. im not kidding I dont know how people joke about their stomach issues, like i do but even when I do you can see the terror behind my eyes cause im so fucking scared it'll hear me and get me

like i'd rather be punched over and over again

I will say there is nothing sweeter than feeling that wave wash over and that sweet sweet relief, but the period of unknowingness before that actually haunts me

anyways, the point of this post is I feel like often when stomach issues, nausea, and vomiting is brought up it's pretty casual, like "oh yeah it sucks". you know what sucks? a paper cut. YOU KNOW WHAT WILLNKEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT RUIN YOUR TRUST IN YOUR BODY AND ALL OF SUDDEN MAKE VOYS THAT YOULL NEVER EAT SHITTY EVER AGAIN AND YOU'LL BE GOOD FOR THEBREST OFBYOUR LIFE AND ALSO YOU NEED YOUR MOM

Basically just curious if anyone else is as sensitive around this subject as me😊

I have a very hard time explaining why certain food repulses me or may suddenly repulse me, and I'm sensitive to smells.

I seem to be bothered by things nobody else notices or cares about.

It's as if I'm tasting things nobody else is. I'll explain.

For example. Most people love chocolate cake, right?

Well, I'm very sensitive to the taste of flour, and I find that chocolate muffins/pudding/cake tastes overly flour compared to other flavored muffins such as blueberry, or pudding such as butterscotch, etc. It's as if the chocolate enhances the flour taste more than mask it. Basically, it's as if I'm eating a spoonfull of raw plain flour, by itself. That's the strong flavor profile that sticks out.

Sometimes this raw flour taste can be enhanced whether something is cold or hot. I just heated up some pita bread, because it tasted good cold, even noticed the sugar, as soon as I heated it up, I couldn't eat it anymore. It didn't taste right, almost bleach like or the raw flour taste and I just threw it out. Luckily, it wasn't that much. I would note, it was heated with some butter. Still - I haven't had this problem with other breads.

People think I'm being fussy but I'm not. I'm generally a good eater but some tastes just absolutely put me off. They're genuinely disgusting.

There's some brand of breads that taste way too yeasty as if you're eating a spoon of yeast.

Other smells and flavors I can't handle is anything that tastes like squid or cuttlefish, because, to be quite NSFW frank - it tastes and smells like a man's private parts, no joke. And then, squid/cuttlefish and men's parts also smell like bleach, so I can't stand any of these smells! Yes I'm married so.... no farther comment...

I'm not nuts, maybe just have a very sensitive smell/taste.

I also am sensitive to anything overly bitter.

I think there's been a few times that I've tasted chemicals in food.

I just want to know if I'm not the only one that has these sensitivities. Maybe you have different flavor sensitivities, but these are ones that stick out to me...

Does anyone else feel this way, or am I just wI want to understand myself better. Can anyone relate?eird?

I genuinely enjoy talking to people. I love getting to know strangers, hearing their stories, discussing random things, and having conversations about literally anything. In my free time, I'd rather talk to people than watch movies, binge-watch shows, or scroll through OTT platforms.

But here's the thing: I feel awkward interacting with people offline. 🥲 I want to talk, make connections, and get to know people, but I often worry about being judged or saying something stupid. Sometimes, I don't know how to approach someone or keep a conversation going in person, even though I genuinely want to.

Reddit has become my favourite place to interact with people because I can express my thoughts, talk to strangers, and learn about different people's lives. I find real people's experiences and perspectives more interesting than watching fictional stories.

I don't know why I'm like this. I enjoy human connection, but when it comes to actually interacting with people face-to-face, I feel awkward and self-conscious.

What kind of personality is this? Am I an introvert who craves connection, or is there another way to describe it?

I'd genuinely love to know if there are other people who feel the same way. It's comforting to know you're not the only one who experiences something like this.

I don't mean that everyone looks like one specific person, but that you'll run into a stranger and they look like someone you've seen before even if they're a different race or gender than the person they look alike? And I know this has clearly happened to everyone at least once, but I'm talking about all the time no matter who you're looking at.

I'll see a picture of someone, and I'll think they look similar to someone I know, someone I've seen online, or even myself (even if they're a different race or gender) while other people might tell me I'm crazy and that they "look nothing alike" Because of this, whenever I go somewhere and see someone I actually know, I'm never 100% sure it's them since I'll start to think they could just be someone else that looks like them. I don't mean this in a mean way, but it feels like no one looks super unique to me, and all facial features and stuff are limited like a video game causing everyone to look a little identical. At least to me.