Having Trouble Sleeping? Counting Sheep Not Working?

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jcpst

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When you lay down, imagine you are the slowest electron ever.
You leave a guitar pickup and start tracing your journey.
You make it through the output jack and into the first pedal on your board.
Check out every component in the path along the way.

I've yet to make it even close to the amp, I pass out part way through every time.
 
Also, because it's an AC signal, that electron ain't ever gonna make it's way outta the pickup. It's just bouncing back and forth, forever trapped between the same couple of atoms, perhaps shifting ever so slightly on its axis.

There. I've ruined your lullaby. Huzzah!
 
Hydroxine! Great antihistamine. Doesn't get all woozy in the AM like benedryl.

I took Seroquel for a little bit in my early 20s. Took my under-active neurons and slowed em to a crawl. Wrong medication for me.

But FUCK that shit knocked me out.
 
Do we do metaphorical electrons here? I guess it might get confusing if we have real electrons and metaphorical electrons. But if we do have have metaphorical electrons, which would help in the OP, maybe we could have moral electrons too. When my son used to play sport for an often losing team I used to keep a moral scoreboard. So whenever anyone would ask if they won I could say it was a moral victory. I think the same could apply to electrons.

Different types of reality seem very popular right now.
 
Oof, that’s embarrassing. The visualization is usually me traveling through the signal chain, so just visualize yourself. It sounded weird to say that. But the problem with my substitution is that I actually don’t know shit about electricity, which elevates it to weird and wrong.

Want another one? It reminds of this time I sent a professor a late night email that conflated acoustic and electromagnetic frequencies because I wanted to make a compositional framework with musical intervals based on ratios derived from the frequency differences between wavelengths in the color spectrum. :oops:
 
Eh, waves, particles, all I know is that you gotta get that cat out of the box, feed 'em, and give em scritches.

Sometimes I like to think of myself as an electron that enters a pedal and then gets trapped in a capacitor, with my only friend being a void in the cell across mine that I *really* want to get to but can't.

It calls to me. I can't explain it.
 
jcpst said:
When you lay down, imagine you are the slowest electron ever.
You leave a guitar pickup and start tracing your journey.
You make it through the output jack and into the first pedal on your board.
Check out every component in the path along the way.

I've yet to make it even close to the amp, I pass out part way through every time.
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I'm going to try this right now. It's 2am, I was almost asleep a couple hours ago and then... IDK, I took another trip and found myself in Somnia, yet again.
 
On a more serious note: I'm really not exaggerating when I say that I'm a seasoned professional when it comes to not being able to sleep. I truly think I might have unofficially broken the world record on staying awake for the longest time without dying (more than a month!). I never thought I would recover from that. Not without serious brain damage, at least. Spent two months in a hospital (the "Laughing Academy" if you must know) where they tried everything short of electric shocks or putting me in a coma to make me sleep. Nope!!!

Later on I truly understood what Michael Jackson went through. I only wish I had tried cannabis oil back in the day. The real stuff, with THC. It wasn't legal in Canada at that time, so I didn't think of it.

Now that I have easy and legal access to it, I never worry about not being able to sleep. If I think I'm about to relapse, there's always this easy fix. And no, I don't even get high. I take it 1 hour before bed, and 1 hour later I'm asleep.

Just leaving this here in case it helps someone.
 
My father in law works at a place where they make lil gummies out of cold water hash.

There's like...50mh of THC in each. I gotta cut em into sixths. Gets me to sleep pretty well.

Can't rely on that though. If I take em too often my brain gets all foggy. Works great every once in a while.

I used to have the worst time with insomnia. Couldn't get to sleep for shit.

Then, I was put on amphetamines. And now: no problem. All good. No problem.

Now...waking up? That's an issue. Always has been rough. 4 is too goddamned early to wake up. There should be a law against it.
 
Yep. It's the good old struggle between not being able to sleep and taking something that makes you sleep, but then you might be groggy in the morning and even through the day. I try to only use sleep helpers when really necessary. It's a fine balance that's unique to everybody.
 
Digesting big meals is making me very sleepy, it didn't use to do that years ago, but the older i get, the more sleepy i become after eating food.

I guess cooking and eating meals could be an healthy alternative for pills ?
 
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