dear body,

[butter_fly_]

right now it's nearly 5am and i can't sleep. there's just too much physical energy racing around inside me and there's no outlet right now. where did all of this energy come from? i'm on my feet several nights a week at work, such that everything from my lower back down feels like it is falling apart and hasn't had enough time to recover. i

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[fimoc]

when I had problems with sleeping in high school it wasn't because I "had all this energy", although it felt like I did and hence couldn't go to sleep. It was more that I didn't want to sleep even though I knew I needed it-- like I told myself I needed sleep, but it wouldn't listen. I don't really know how much exercising can do for that, and I actually find myself on the other end of the spectrum (having to sleep 12 hours a day). If it's that you can't stop thinking, etc., it's probably psychological . . . and I noticed that it kept me feeling awake and with energy when I didn't have it.

[butter_fly_]

i know what you're talking about and i've experienced it before, but this is different. it really is because i have too much energy because i haven't been working out at all. i went cross-country skiing the afternoon after i posted this and it definitely helped, but i need to make sure that i keep it up!
interesting point about exercise and sleep... prior to my sleepless night, i felt tired and sluggish a lot of the time. if i had exercised when i felt like that i would have gained energy (more like gained use of energy stored in my body), but because i didn't, eventually all that energy couldn't take being latent anymore and kept me up all night for lack of a better outlet. i don't know why it works this way, but that's how i experienced it.