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What if I am capable of thinking with closed eyes?
I go a little bit more meta, and start imagining myself sleeping.
Kind of… say I’m part of the Start Trek crew. I imagine how would it be to sleep in the Enterprise. How is the room? What furniture is there? Is there a window/screen showing the outside? Etc…
For me, works wonderfully.
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Wow, a permit is 300 EUR + 120 EUR / year. There's no way this can really cover a single person asking for donations on their website, can it? That's insane. It also looks like you need to specify information about your "organisation", including specifying a treasurer? How could a single person even fill this out if they wanted to? ~~ It appears permits aren't given to individuals and there is simply no legal way for…
Which country is this?
What if I am capable of thinking with closed eyes?
This is my case, my trick is to imagine pleasurable fantasy scenarios and go over the smallest details. I go a little bit more meta, and start imagining myself sleeping. Kind of… say I’m part of the Start Trek crew. I imagine how would it be to sleep in the Enterprise. How is the room? What furniture is there? Is there a window/screen showing the outside? Etc… For me, works wonderfully.
Most sleep problems cannot be solved by sitting still. You should go to the doctor, get a sleep test and look for more serious treatment methods. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with such suggestions.
Most sleep problems cannot be solved by sitting still. You should go to the doctor, get a sleep test and look for more serious treatment methods. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with such suggestions.
Takes 2 months to see a doctor in Canada. Maybe better to give it a shot.
Very similar to “chop wood, carry water” Seems like I’m seeing a cultural shift happening in the last few months to people re/discovering zen-stoicism-minimalism Probably the cyclical nature of trends
The best kind of parody: the one you almost can’t tell is parody. My sense is that the core issue with people who actually think this way is that they lack empathy. They assume that their context is shared by everyone. So if one simple trick worked for them, it surely must work for everyone else.
When someone tells me they can't do something the problem isn't usually that they can't, but that they don't want to. In particular I like to apply it to acts for reducing one's environmental footprint:
- Want to become a vegetarian? Just stop eating meat.
- Want to switch to a more environmentally friendly mode of transportation? Just stop using your car. Or just stop putting gas in it so you won't even be able to use it.
- Want to reduce your consumption? Just stop buying useless stuff.
And whenever I say things like that, I agree it looks like I'm lacking empathy, because they focus on the action. But the real challenge is the "want to" part. Because once you want to, you can often just do it. And if willpower is lacking, that just means you don't want to enough.
Of course you can then take my logic and apply to everywhere it doesn't, like telling me that won't help a blind person to see again. That's beside the point.