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Saw the difference in my sleep after I stopped working from coffee shops for 3 weeks
I was the guy who set up shop at every cafe in Bangkok. Thought the background noise was just part of the lifestyle. After a month of waking up tired and crashing by 2 PM, I tried working from my rental apartment for 21 days straight. My deep sleep went from 45 minutes a night to almost 2 hours. No idea the hum and chatter was messing with my brain that much. Anyone else notice a drop in sleep quality when they work from public spots?
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davis.gavin27d agoMost Upvoted
Whoa there, I gotta push back a little on something. You said the noise was "messing with your brain" but it's actually more about your body's stress response than just the sound itself. Cafes have all that background chatter and movement that keeps your nervous system on alert, even if you don't feel it during the day. That constant low level stress carries over into sleep and messes with your deep sleep cycles. Plus the caffeine and bright lights in a cafe probably play a bigger role than you think, since they shift your body clock and keep you wired longer than the hum of a coffee grinder does.
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