The Midnight Code Spiral
Bro... everyone has that one bad habit they ain't proud of but still do anyway. You know, the type you swear you'll fix by next week but you're already planning to do it again tonight?
Mine? You won't even see it coming.
You could walk into my room at 11PM and see me peacefully laid out like I'm two minutes into REM sleep — head on the pillow, lights off, soft lo-fi playing. But inside my head? It's chaos. Code chaos.
I'm deep in thought trying to optimize a LeetCode problem I solved 3 days ago. Or rethinking a backend bug I met earlier. Like — bro. Why is my brain debugging when my body is trying to SLEEP??
And the worst part? It doesn't stop there. Once I finally drift off, I sometimes wake up at 2:47AM like, "Wait... what if I use a HashMap instead?".
I'll be lying there, staring at the ceiling, debating whether to open my laptop and write the idea down or risk forgetting it. Guess which one usually wins?
It's bad, man. It happens in bed, in lectures, in troskis. I'll be zoning out mid-convo just to mentally replay a bug that's been biting me all day. Bro's present physically, but mentally he's writing TypeScript in the 8th dimension.
Some people smoke. Some overthink. Some spend 3 hours on TikTok. Me? I mentally speedrun algorithms at night like I'm prepping for the Codeforces finals IN MY DREAMS.
You might say it's not a bad habit. You might even say it's a sign of passion. But lemme tell you something —
when your brain can't turn off, it stops feeling like passion and starts feeling like prison.
I just want a single night of peace, not O(n log n) dreams.
How do I stop this? No idea. But one day, I'll write a sleep-tracking app that detects if I start thinking in code… and zaps me back to rest mode 💀. Until then, pray for me. Or better yet — send melatonin.