TL;DR: Juggling a day job, freelancing, and personal app ideas, I’m waking at 5am with a racing mind — partly from the excitement/FOMO of what’s now possible with Claude Code. My resting heart rate spikes into the 80s during intense coding sessions, so I built a Pixel Watch app that buzzes me when it climbs too high as a reminder to chill. Wondering if anyone else finds working with Claude Code slightly addictive and whether it’s affecting their sleep or stress levels too. I’m finding myself waking up at 5am, often earlier with my mind racing about ideas and various projects i’m working on for both my day job & evening / weekend freelancing. On top of that I’m thinking of my own ideas for my own apps to create an ongoing income for myself and my family. I’m often missing my 7 hours sleep because my mind is waking me up and feeling a little stressed as well as excited about what can be achieved in such short times now with Claude. I also noticed my heart rate often going into the 80’s when I’m thinking hard about the project and interacting sometimes with 5 to 6 different terminals working on different parts of a project. …so I built in android studio, an app which buzzes my Pixel 4 smart watch if my heart rate goes up into the next range of 10’s, like if it went from 70s to 80s, it tracks that each minute which reminds me to chill out with a little haptic feedback! …I’m actually fit in my late 30’s so really my heart rate pre bedtime is mid to high 40’s so sat idle at a desk I wouldn’t have thought should be going above 60-70 really. I drink one coffee usually an hour after getting up. Anyway, I wondered… Is it Claude Code that’s causing me to get up so early because there’s that sense of vast opportunity combined with FOMO or maybe something else that is causing me to be to get up like maybe a ‘racey’ feeling while working with it has crept in and got a bit addictive!? Maybe I’m talking rubbish, everyone else sleeps perfectly and doesn’t have any ‘addictive’ emotions and feelings about Claude Code. Either way it would be nice for you to share if you do or you don’t experience anything while using Claude Code (and while you’re not using it, crucially!) submitted by /u/RichensDev
Originally posted by u/RichensDev on r/ClaudeCode