re: Trouble sleeping before a day of traveling

This happened to me last night. Saturday night, I only had about 4 hours of sleep, so I should be exhausted. I helping to run an institute this week which has a bunch of unknown factors and points of stress at this point. I had to get up early this morning and drive an hour to get there on time.


Long story short: despite being exhausted from only 4 hours of sleep night before, I slept like crap last night thanks to the stress of having to get up early.

I think the poor sleep comes from the fear that I'm going to oversleep, as I get the same thing if I have to get up early to go fishing or get up early to leave for vacation.