Step 1. No phone/TV/screens in the bedroom
Step 2. No screens 30 min before going to bed
Step 3. Go to bed at the same time each night
Step 4. Set yourself up to actually get enough sleep
Try this for 6 weeks and then if you seriously still cant sleep discuss with a doctor.
thing is, this is basically just saying “just sleep bro”, i can’t do any of these things.
if i go without screens i will go mad from boredom, if i go to bed the same time each night i will lie awake in bed until i go mad with boredom or get up because fuck that noise, and what does “set yourself up to get enough sleep” even mean? that’s terribly vague.
i have yet to find anything that lets me get even vaguely consistently good sleep, i’ve tried all the things people say to do and it does NOTHING if it’s even feasible in the first place.
Yeah people giving simplistic life advice generally don’t understand the actual issues because they don’t have the problem, it’s painfully common especially with things like insomnia, anxiety, and similar ‘just don’t worry about things’, ‘have you tried not being depressed and just going out and doing stuff?’, ‘just lay down and wait until you sleep’
I can lay my head on a pillow after a long walk, no screen time and all the other shit they say and still spend the entire night caught in churning and bubbling anxiety that builds and builds until I’m as wired as a crackhead.
I’m not saying don’t try things people suggest but I guess don’t expect them to work and beat yourself up with them. If you can’t find something that works for you then see a doctor about getting sleep drugs, while you meme seems to be pushing the Puritanical idea that anything but a natural life is bad that’s totally stupid and op should be ashamed.
We’re complex biological machines that go wrong in a myriad of ways, it’s perfectly fine to require the addition of outside substances to moderate and control your health - honestly future generations will probably be shocked how few people used sleep aids.
Of course not every drug works the same on everyone and many can have negative side effects so it can take some shopping around but talk to medical professionals.
(Full disclosure I don’t take medical sleep aids due to other complications but I know many who do and swear by them)
I heard of some book or something that broke society down into smart, dumb, evil, and good people and the combinations of those categories. The author’s argument was that dumb people of any sort are the most dangerous to society since they’re likely to support policies that hurt their own interests. Says you’re better off with smart people even if they’re evil lol
Some years ago I came up with the theory that for high intelligence there is something like the Dunning-Krugger effect: people with just enough intelligence (above average, maybe even what I call “entry-level genius”) to notice they’re more intelligent than most people they cross paths with but not enough to understand the limits of intelligence - in terms of how much extra capability it gives, of how little it matters when thinking is unstructured, just how much people undermine their own intelligence and deceive themselves driven by their own fears and desires, and how in most areas of knowledge domain experience always trumps even the most extraordinary intelligence - thing that natural advantage of them makes them way more capable than what it actually does.
Some of the dumbest intelligent people I crossed paths with were like that: just enough above-average intelligence to feel they’re “superior” to most people but not enough to figure out that the extra CPU power they were born isn’t all-in-all that amazing an advantage, it certainly doesn’t mean they can intellectually most people in intellectual domains they themselves have little experience in, and that it by itself it doesn’t do much to help them without thinks like knowledge, structured thinking and the ability to look for, accept and correct one’s own skill-gaps, knowledge-gaps and even blindspots.
I suspect that part of the problem is that the likelihood of one such person crossing paths with the trully extraordinary intelligences (for example, an IQ of 180 or above is present in only about 1 out every 1 million people, so there is a pretty low chance to cross paths with those outside certain professional or educational environments) means many such “entry-level geniouses” run around feeling like they’re superior people, never having been disavowed of that notion by somebody who can run intellectual circles around them.
Love those windows when travelling, but I have yet to see windows that open to the inside here in Ireland. Not sure whether it’s one of those crazy building regulations like no power switch or outlet inside the bathroom or auto-closing inner doors to each room.
I guess it would depend on the temperature resistance and how the power is transmitted. Even solar panels wear out, and the collection surfaces of a dyson sphere would be a lot higher temp. But with something that scale, I’d imagine it would be a ton of maintenance work even if was a tiny amount per area.
It’s so bad that 3 of my most played songs are not my most favorite songs, solely because the shuffler keep shoving it to my throat over and over again. I mean, I like those songs, but not THAT much.
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