its an adhd thing i cant pull up the study on my phone but it was a pretty big paradigm shift in how we understood adhd they took a bunch of kids and then sat them at a table so theyd be bored they expected the kids with adhd to be ultra hyperactive - which they were at first to their surprise after a bit rather than becoming even more hyperactive a lot of the adhd kids just started napping this was a big part of what lead to the realization that kids with adhd arent over stimulated but severely under stimulated the hyperactivity is a coping mechanism from a dopamine starved brain  have you ever seen the movie click with adam sandler thats how i think of mybrain a lot - it wants to get through the boring parts without having to experience them sleep is an avoidance technique with the hope that when you wake up you wont have to do the thing anymore its our version of the fast forward button except just like in the movie its pretty glitchy and tries to skip over stuff that needs to be experienced    i read somewhere that one trick for this sleepiness problem is to mix pleasant and unpleasant quite literally give your brain enough fun to keep it from turning itself off out of boredom the easiest way to do this but it a risky habit to get into is to use sugar its a way to almost instantly light up the reward pathway   last spring i was taking this now online evening lecture about accounting so obviously every night at 7pm i was becoming exhausted and could barelykeep my eyes open but having a soda or candy helped a lot  the only tricky part is that your brain realizes the next day that it can eat more candy even though its not lecture time at this point ive given up on mastering that kind of self control i bought a timer lock so i can literally lock the candy away from myself when i shouldnt be eating it