Most people think sleep restores them.
It doesn’t.
The recovery loop does.

Here’s the loop that decides who you are in the morning:

Shutdown → Detachment → Identity Reset.

Shutdown closes the day.
Detachment frees the mind.
Identity reset tells your brain who it’s supposed to wake up as.

Miss any part of that loop and you don’t wake up restored —
you wake up as yesterday’s exhausted version.

The reason you feel dull, slow, or unfocused isn’t lack of hours.
It’s incomplete recovery.

Most people stop here. Here’s what to do instead: