Marina Martinez-Bateman's video: I used to be a super sleeper

This is a rare Saturday update where I talk about the lessons I’m learning from napping and sleeping and dreaming as a former super sleeper. I felt a lot of grief after my most recent bout with burn out when I found that I was no longer able to get by on three hours of sleep at night. Losing the time that I used to have to read and connect with my friends around the world has been very sad. So when I realized that, even though I’m sleeping five or six hours a night, it’s still not enough sleep for me, and in fact, I should be sleeping seven or eight hours a night, I expected to feel even more loss, but I didn’t. I’ve been realizing how important my sleep in my dreams are to me. During my recovery from burnout, I had what felt like a prophetic dream where my grandmother who raised me apologized for specific things that she was responsible for in my childhood, and I woke up, healed from that dream in a way that no amount of therapy or other recovery work could accomplish. My dreams are extremely vivid. They help me put my days into context and they help me envision the future we’re building. I have a lot of survivors' guilt both as a survivor of the exploitation of capitalism, and as a survivor of the abuses of my childhood. The abundance I live in today was unimaginable for me at almost any other point in my life. I know all too well how many people still suffer like I did. I make these videos, and I do this work out loud so people can see how I got away from abuse and exploitation. Not so you can copy me exactly, but so you can find what works for you in my story and use that to find your own path out. We need as many paths out of poverty and needless harm as we can possibly imagine because we need everyone to be able to find and see an escape route. About Me: I'm Marina Martinez-Bateman, the CEO of New Coyote Consulting (newcoyote.com), an equity and communications firm from the Pacific-Northwest, and designer/author of The Planner for Doing Less (https://marinaisgo.gumroad.com/l/DoLess). Other places: https://instagram.com/marinaisgo https://www.tiktok.com/@marinaisgo https://twitch.tv/fatcatchat - I play the sims with my mic off for background noise