Lol sorry to hear that's what your experience was reading this. I posted it here because I thought Alexander's take was motivating and something I resonate with from my own personal experience.
Perplexing for sure. I first read this in my fave newsletter Ancient Beat. James manages to break things down into easy-to-digest chunks that I so appreciate. Here's his summary, "Archaeologists have uncovered a huge number of frog and toad skeletons in a 14-meter ditch near an iron age roundhouse in the UK. According to Dr. Vicki Ewens, “To have over 8,000 bones coming from one ditch is extraordinary.” As to why they are there, no one knows. The bones have no cut or burn marks, so they probably weren’t eaten (though they could have been boiled). Many ancient civilizations saw the frog as a symbol for fertility, so it’s possible that it was ceremonial. Or the frogs could have simply been trapped by chance. It’s a mystery. Here's a link to James' substack for more of his curated archaeology news breakdowns https://ancientbeat.substack.com/p/-ancient-beat-16-mass-fro...
yes, I resonate with this! It's exhausting to have this much mental stimulation at night. If I'm woken up at any point I can recall the dream I was just in and they're often really stressful dreams. I've been working with my nervous system and I'm wondering if there's some dysregulation going on that's contributing to my stressful night's sleep (like I'm cycling from fight/flight right into freeze all night long). I also tend to have more stressful dreams in the morning near that time when cortisol is released to help our bodies rise with the sun. Been wondering about that as well.