The Monday sleep issue

One weird but consistent thing in my battle against sleep issues is insomnia on Monday nights. It doesn’t happen every week, but when I have trouble sleeping, it almost always falls on a Monday night. It happened yet again to me last night as I lay awake most of the night trying to sleep. It also happened again last week.

It’s something that’s been going on for years and I can’t explain it. I almost always sleep like a baby on Sunday night, but no matter how tired I am on Monday, I feel like I struggle to fall asleep. This includes good days where it’s a low stress day and I worked out, and had a nice meal.

By process of elimination, I have tried a lot of things to combat it. I have tested many theories that I felt could be the culprit including making sure I exercise on Monday, staying consistent on sleep schedule on the weekends, not drinking over the weekend, going to bed earlier, staying off the phone, etc.

At this point, my only thought is that it is just simply mental at this point. The idea of it being Monday makes me think it’ll be tough to fall asleep which gets in my head and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I look forward to the day that I can put this behind me. Having a day of the week where I sleep terribly is not a great way to live.