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make your room as clean, comfortable, and cool as possible

I clear my desk off and place every article of clothing I can into the hamper. Remove any food, plates, bowls, utensils, paper towels, garbage lining in your wastebin that may or may not have a week or two old clif bar wrapper inside of it. Anything food related in my sleeping space, even if I’ve not eaten & my stomach is totally empty and has been for hours or for the whole day or days on end— will inevitably signal to my digestive system that there is work to be done & that digestion must happen. I can’t sleep if I’m digesting. I also to sit on my couch with a pen & notebook & vomit or diarrhea whatever thoughts have been haranguing me over the evening onto page. If I’m digesting things in my brain especially I find it impossible to sleep. Open a window, as many as possible to allow fresh air in. Turn on your fans: ceiling, desk, windowsill-mounted box fan, whatever you have. Circulate the air as much as possible. I cannot sleep in a stale bedroom. Have a glass of water at your bedside. If your situation is really hopeless, maybe even fashion a receptacle to urinate into so you don’t have to walk into the bathroom all bleary eyed in the middle of the night. I’ll admit that this is something that I myself don’t have the courage to do yet, but one day when I’m older & even less continent I doubt courage will have very little to do with it & I will piss right by my bedside before yawning & curling up back under my two duvets. Tao Lin recommends this. Have a bedtime & even if it’s hopeless & youre prone to tossing & turning all the way from 11 PM to 11 AM, stick to it. If I really can’t sleep, I resign myself to about an hour of wordy reading. I’ve been reading the first chapter of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams for the better part of 3 months now. That helps too. I am a total stiff & stretching is a total ordeal for me (trying to stretch my hamstrings makes me as red in the face as running a 5K [this is probably cope on my end, and my reluctance to stretch is likely a testament to a deeper, psychological inflexibility that I’m not willing to tackle at this time]) , so much like urinating into a bedside jar, glass, or other such receptacle I can’t personally recommend it based off my “””experience””” but I’ve read that stretching does go a long way before bed. I’ve heard good things about magnesium. I take glycine because it gives me wild dreams.

@steelyfan1998

Aug 5, 2024

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sleeping for 12 hours straight

i went to bed at 8:30pm and woke up 8:30am. worth every second. sometimes its just what your body needs.

@starlet

Feb 14, 2025

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Sleeping for 12 (or more) hours

After an emotionally intense time. Let yourself reset.

@mouse

Jun 18, 2024

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Make a zine and leave it in public

doodle some stuff and photocopy some random objects. write terrible poetry and print it. It doesn't have to mean anything to be art. leave them in cafes and train stations for anyone to find

@peskydog

Feb 16, 2025

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sending postcards

get fun postcards when traveling, they're usually in bookshops. write a bunch of inside jokes and stuff for your friends. once you start doing it everyone sends them to you when they travel its so fun

@peskydog

Feb 17, 2025

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avoiding the supermarket and cooking mindfully

why go to one big store with annoying music and bright lights when you could go to a small market, a butcher, a fishmonger, a wine store, and the farmers market to get everything you need? you get to spend so much more time in your community and often meet the people involved in the production of your food. making a meal with ingredients you've spent all day shopping for always feels like so much more of an accomplishment. it seems like our culture exports the act of mindful cooking onto 'organic' or 'whole food' type restaurants, when any individual person can really do it on their own sure, it can be more expensive but in my experience supermarket costs are rising while other businesses have stayed relatively the same, so the cost difference is becoming smaller. it is admittedly easiest to do this in large cities and wealthier towns, but you'd be surprised at the resources you can find in even the most sprawling of suburbs. the home butcher and locally sourced produce can be hunted down fairly easily on places like craigslist and fb marketplace. for more rural people there are often wonderful options from native tribes and local hunting clubs for local game and fish. these options are honestly better than your urban gourmet markets since they do more to build community through individual connections not every meal has to be a work of art, but taking the time once a month to source your food, inviting folks over to help cook and sharing the meal widely (buying in bulk is the most cost effective way to do this) does wonders for many things in your life, I cannot recommend this enough this may sound like stating the obvious-- "local hipster says shop local" --but I mean this more in the way of mindfulness than anything. experience what you consume to the fullest manner you can tldr going to many small stores instead of one makes for a more mindful cooking experience and is only marginally more expensive.

@peskydog

Feb 26, 2025