If you work nights, this is you

You get home from work. And you can't sleep.

Your shift ended at 6 this morning. You could barely stand. Got home, got in bed. And now it's 9am, you're only half awake, but you can't drift off into sleep. You're just lying there, staring at the ceiling.

The curtains are taped to the wall. Mask on. Earplugs in. Fan going. The room is dark as night. Your body still won't shut down.

Too tired to be awake. Too wired to sleep.

And it's not just the sleep. It's what it takes from the rest of your life. Most days, all you do is sleep and work.

You live in the same house as your family. But you're barely in it. They know by night you'll be asleep, or too fried to talk. So they started having the cookouts and the birthdays in the afternoon now.

You've been fixing the wrong thing

You're tired. But you're not sleepy.

Tired is your body being wrecked from the shift. Sleepy is different. It's when your head gets heavy, your eyes close on their own, and you drift off without even trying.

You've got the first one. Not the second. So you lie there wrecked, eyes wide open, waiting for a heavy feeling that never comes.

Twelve hours of work left your body wound up. Now you're home and it won't calm down. That's the whole problem.

Everything you've bought makes the room feel like nighttime. Blackout curtains, a mask, earplugs, a fan, melatonin. None of it does a single thing to calm your body down. So you keep lying there.

That's the piece you've been missing, and it comes down to magnesium. It's what your body uses to wind down at night. Most people don't get enough of it, and working nights burns through it even faster.

That's what VOID is. The magnesium that lets your body finally wind down.

What it feels like over time

One night worker. His first month on it.

Tomas has worked warehouse nights for six years. Here's how it went, week by week.

— Tomas R., warehouse worker, 6 years on nights