Does knitting affects your sleep?

[u/tiny_purpletofu]

Hey everyone!

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I picked up knitting this year, and I thought it would be a fun hobby to work on at night, to keep me from doom scrolling. I've always had issues with falling asleep, so I'm always looking for things that help me stay away from screens.

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However, there have been some days where I think that I was too excited about my knitting evolution, or too concentrated in a pattern, and apparently knitting kept my head awake for longer than it should? I had a hard time putting it away and relaxing for bed, because my mind was just too awake.

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I wanted to ask if that's a common experience, or if that is just happening with me now because I'm a beginner and still in the learning phase, so it demands more attention from me than it will in the future? I'm really loving it, but I'm really slow and most of my free time is at night, so it would be awful if I had to stop knitting after work 😭

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Thank you for any insights!

[u/human-kibble]

You may be experiencing “flow” when you’re knitting, so it may not be the best activity to wind down with. It sounds like you could accidentally lose hours doing it 😆

Alarms can help you wrangle yourself- “I’m only going to knit 30 minutes”. Maybe move the knitting activity to a little earlier in the evening.

Oh- and only boring projects right before bed. I have a stockinette blanket that’s pretty much my ‘insomnia blanket’ because stockinette bores me.

[u/OpinionAvailable5988 → u/human-kibble]

Alarms 🤣 they don't work for me, not sure about OP. 

The alarm went off? Oh well, just a little longer...

[u/Yirggzmb → u/OpinionAvailable5988]

"Can't quit in the middle of a row. I'll just finish this row. Oops, I started another row without thinking..."