- [Craig] Thank you to Tums for sponsoring this video.
- This is like, one of my very favorite experiments
that you've ever done.
- This is not who I've ever been.
(gentle string music)
These days,
I have been increasingly looking down the barrel of a fact,
which I have denied.
Pointed at my big, dumb face.
And that fact is you can't feel good
if you don't have enough sleep.
My entire life,
I've always tried to maximize fun at the end of the night
to the detriment of tomorrow Craig.
And I love tomorrow Craig,
he's just like me, mostly, older.
"I'll sleep when I'm dead!" I would say.
And now that I'm older,
energy is a depleting resource.
Well, that's true of the Earth, but also for me.
But, not that kind of energy.
What I mean is it's no longer, "I'll sleep when I'm dead,"
it's, "I'm already dead while I'm alive."
Basically, I stay up too late,
and I wake up in the middle of the night,
and then I get up too late,
and then I take naps,
and I'm still tired.
And I've been trying to fix it for a while.
If you've been watching, you know,
I don't shut up about it.
I recently just quit alcohol.
That has helped.
I'm coming back online.
- There ya go.
- I tried leaning into it with biphasic sleep,
and that has helped a little, but not enough!
The plan is to set my alarm for 3:00 AM,
wake up, work on a project that I've been putting off,
then get tired, go back to second sleep.
A couple of years ago,
I tried going to bed at 7:00 PM. (laughs)
Out of all the challenges,
this is the one where I feel the most temptation to cheat.
That worked, but it was terrible,
and it's the only challenge I quit.
There's no way I'm gonna keep going to bed that early.
But, this time,
I'm gonna not be a dingus about it,
and I'm gonna do it at 10:00 PM.
Every sleep article, slarticle, if you will, I come across
says that you need to have a consistent sleep schedule.
And that is something I never have
because I like to embrace chaos.
Chaos Craig.
I'm a madman. (cuckoo clock chiming)
Why do I embrace chaos?
I don't know because it distracts me
from the thoughts of my own mortality? (laughs)
Ah, fun.
But, now, that I'm already dead while I'm alive,
that doesn't bother any me more, (speaking gibberish).
I want to be alive while I'm alive.
Basically, as I get old and tired,
it becomes more worth it to take care of myself
and be more responsible.
So, let's see if going to bed at 10:00 PM
makes me feel better,
be more productive and useful.
And maybe, not snack on so much junk,
which you tend to do late at night.
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Okay, so now it's time
to show you my 10:00 PM sleep journey,
also known as slourney by no one.
And it's already hard
because there's a bunch of episodes of "Taskmaster" left.
I'm just gonna have to stop mid-episode.
- Wow, now I'm gonna be the one that stays up late.
There's nothing to do after you go to bed, so.
- I know 'cause I'm the life of the party.
- You're the life of the party.
- Yeah! Uh!
What am I doing?
- Having pain?
Is that better?
- Thank you.
What happened is what I thought would happen,
I reverted to biphasic sleep.
If you remember, from my biphasic sleep video,
I got up at 3:00 AM,
did a bunch of work until six,
went back asleep till 9:30ish.
But, I ended up getting a bunch more sleep
than I normally do.
And then, tonight again, I had to stop mid-show.
My life was dictated by the length of a TV program.
"Gotta finish the program before I go to bed."
Not anymore.
Taking back my life!
Again, we had to stop mid-episode.
"Gogglebox" is a British show
where people watch a British shows. (laughs)
I realize, we probably watch too much TV.
And a lot of British TV, apparently.
Quite right, quite right.
Off your pop.
Mmm, this coffee's so scrummy.
Perhaps, we should address this TV problem in a later video.
Anyway.
But, so far,
every time I have laid down in bed,
I read some of a book for a while and then fell asleep,
I have not had trouble falling asleep at all.
My days are better when I go to bed
and get a full night's sleep.
Yes, you just heard, I read a book first.
I'm not saying that I just lay down
and go directly to sleep.
I get to bed at 10:00 PM
and then I have some time to wind down,
reading a book, maybe a little meditation.
And it's working!
And I kept doing it without fail!
I failed the past two days.
- One of those days was my birthday
because as a gift, what did we do?
- We hung out with friends and played Jackbox over Zoom.
- Oh! That was a gift.
The other day, we just wanted to not
'cause you were having fun with your friends.
- I have a weekly Zoom hangout
with some friends who live far away.
And when you're editing a video all day long...
The Halloween video is a humdinger.
- You were hummin' and dingin'.
Dingin' and hummin'.
You're gonna have the once-a-week exception.
- No, no.
I will just cut it off early next time.
- Oh!
Mr. Discipline over here.
- That's right.
And I did, and now I don't have any friends. (laughs)
That's not true.
But, it is hard to be the guy who's the first one to leave.
I've never been that person.
That's not the nature of Chaos Craig.
But, I did it and it's fine.
Anyway.
- Anything else?
- I wish I hadn't had cheese and crackers.
- Are you doing a month of no cheese and crackers?
- No, I'm just, now I'm full.
- Bye. - And I don't wanna be full.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Not able to fall asleep right away.
Midnight snack.
(crunching snack)
Also, I'm not completely naked right now.
I'm failing again.
(angrily grunting)
I'm watching "Night of the Living Dead" over stream, live,
with my friend Jake and my friend Chyna. (laughs)
This is a special night.
I'm making an exception, I'm staying up later.
(Jake laughing)
I'm failing at this challenge. (laughs)
Well, I'm failing a lot.
Time to quit.
If at first you don't succeed, quit hard!
So, I have been successfully going to bed at 10.
You didn't let me finish, don't, quit hard, don't.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
You can do it, come on.
Keep trying all the time.
I started putting my phone down in my office.
I don't look at my phone all throughout the night.
I still wake up periodically,
but then I fall right back asleep.
And now, I'm at the point where it's nine o'clock
and it actually feels late.
- You have to stay up for another hour
before you're allowed to go to bed.
- Uh.
- Wait, is that how it works?
- No, I could probably go to bed early if I wanted to.
- Oh, you won't though.
- I might.
(Chyna gasps)
But, I just started watching "Nora from Queens,"
and I'm gonna watch the second episode.
But, I'm not gonna watch five episodes,
which is what I probably would of done before!
I've been doing so much reading.
I'm halfway through Hank's sequel book.
Enjoying it.
I already read "Alcohol Explained" book
for the alcohol video.
Some of this probably has to do with not drinking as well.
But, I'm getting up earlier,
having more time to spend with my daughter
before she goes to preschool.
It's fantastic.
And I'm starting to think of how ridiculous the way I was
was.
That was a ridiculous sentence.
And now, I'm gonna pick up some poop.
I'm walkin' the dog, by the way,
I'm not just like picking up poop.
But, still, last night,
I woke up in the middle of the night
and I was up for like three hours.
But, I do feel well rested.
Maybe that's just my destiny,
to just kinda have a sleep relay.
Sleep for a few hours, tag,
I go and do something, tag,
I go back to sleep, sleep for a few hours, tag,
I go do something, tag, I go back to sleep.
But, because I went to bed so early,
I have enough time to get enough sleep.
I don't know.
Oh, lost focus there.
We all lose focus sometimes.
But, I failed tonight,
doing a hangout with a friend
who's going through something personal.
Totally justified in cheating tonight.
It's 11:15 now, and I think it's okay.
It's gonna be okay, you guys.
But, the past like two nights,
I've been getting somewhere in the range
of six to eight hours,
while in bed for like 10 hours.
I wake up feeling good.
It's starting to actually just feel normal and appropriate.
- Oh, that's so good. - It just feels like,
"9:45, gettin' a little late."
- It's gettin' kinda late. (comedic choking)
- I don't know that I've ever felt that before in my life.
I'm at the point now,
where I'm actually looking forward
to going to bed sometimes.
Yeah, I get to lay in bed now!
This is not who I've ever been.
Last night, I only woke up for brief periods of time,
a couple of times,
as opposed to like three hours in the middle of the night.
And I didn't even get tired all day, I felt good.
Sometimes, I have good nights of sleep randomly,
so maybe this was just a fluke,
but maybe this is the beginning.
I don't know.
Anyway, (clearing throat)
(both humming comedically)
I've been going to bed at 10:00 PM every night, mostly,
for the past month.
- You've been really sticking to it, though,
for the most part.
- Early on, I was a little bit iffy.
- But, now that you've gotten into it,
you're getting tired, like ready to go to bed,
you're waking up earlier,
you and Ada will play while I go get ready
or do something in the kitchen.
It's just nice to kinda have all hands on deck.
- I'm a better dad and husband.
- This is like one of my very favorite experiments
that you've ever done,
the one that has changed quality of life the most,
and I hope that you continue doing it.
- It's gonna be disappointing though,
once the month is over now,
and I go back to going to bed at one.
- No. - Or two.
- No, no, no.
You have to go to bed.
(both laughing)
- This one's gonna stick.
- You doing this challenge
has led to me getting back to going to bed earlier.
I think we're keeping each other in check.
- We should tie a chain around both of us.
- So that one of us can't go to bed
without the other one also-
- Yeah, leave it on all the time.
- That's gonna make basically everything really hard.
- It's gonna suck.
We tied a chain around each other for a month.
- Could it just be like a rope?
- Sure.
We tied ourselves together with a razor blade rope
for a month.
- I don't wanna do challenges with you anymore.
Not just that one, but any of them ever again.
- Actually, tying ourselves together for a month
is a pretty interesting challenge.
- Terrible idea.
- Yeah, I like it.
- Absolutely terrible idea. - It's good.
It would get a lot of views.
We know that views equals a good life.
- We could do like, we went everywhere.
- We never left each other's sight for a month.
- I wanna go to the bathroom on my own.
I would like to go to the bathroom by myself. (laughs)
- At the beginning of the video, we'll explain the caveat.
But, usually, I'm doing challenges
that has to do with improving our lives.
- We made our lives way worse for a month.
- (laughs) Could work, everybody.
- I hope you keep going to bed at 10.
- I hope so too.
- Bye. - Bye.
And now, it's several days later, and I'm still doing it.
And I do not plan to stop ever.
I love it.
I'm finishing the episodes I'm in the middle of now
before I go to bed though.
Around nine or 10 really feels like bedtime now.
I get tired.
And when I think about midnight,
I'm like, "Whew! Ooh, that's seems late."
I think before this,
what I always wanted was to figure out a way to invent time.
To burn the midnight oil,
but then also burn the morning oil,
and the afternoon oil,
just burn a lot of oil.
I probably should get off the fossil fuels.
But, you can't invent time.
It's about sacrifice.
I just have to shift priorities.
And it has become more important to me
to feel good in the morning and the afternoon,
and be a good dad,
and work on these videos and enjoy it all the time.
And in the past months,
I've made some steps toward other projects I wanna do.
It's good, it's good.
When I was younger,
I guess it was just more worth it
to feel crappy during the day
so I could have fun at night.
Although, it probably wasn't,
I was just too dumb to know it.
And now, I'm still dumb, but I feel a lot better.
And this is good.
And I don't know why I was like this,
my parents' sleeping habits are much better.
- I embark to glorious slumberland at 9:37, post meridiem,
every stinkin' evenin' time! (banging table)
- I'm zonked.
Two ticks past twilight on the moondial.
- Smell that? (sniffing loudly)
Smells like consistency, just like clockwork.
- Just like moondial work.
- Do you think it's time to update your clocks?
- Whoa, geez, it's moon-thirty all ready?
Time for bed!
(dropping everything)
- Anyway, next video is gonna be all about my marathon,
if you wanna stick around for that.
And Chyna and I are watching 25 Christmas movies
for another end-of-the-year 25 Christmas movie video.
But, we're putting up our reaction to each movie
over on WheezyNews,
if you wanna watch 25 videos of us talking about movies.
Link down there, of course, that's where you put the links.
I'm not gonna put it over there.
Every time I try to put a link over there,
it gets lost, and I'm bewildered,
and I go into a fugue state,
and I'm gone for weeks.
I don't know what I'm saying.
Anyway, thank you for watching.
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And now, ohh, it's gettin' late.
Go to bed!
I'm going to bed.
(chair reclining)
(pretending to snoring)
(gentle piano note)
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