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Re: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

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Post by soheil » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 2:22 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #228

soheil wrote: post #123

Can we please respect readers and not post ad riddled sites like this to HN? It’s impossible to read a paragraph without an ad jumping in the way.

Adblock is your friend. There are mobile browsers which support this (Firefox notably), and mobile-device adblock apps as well, in the event you're not on a desktop system. If you're in a corporate environment, put in a request for adblock on your network as, amongst other things, a security feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28631005

Thanks I didn’t know Firefox with Adblock was an option on mobile.

Re: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

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Post by aacook » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 4:14 AM UTC

There have been a bunch of times in my life where I spent all day or even a few days on a difficult design and/or code problem. Then as I'm just barely coming out of it in the morning — bam — some novel solution to what I'd spend hours on the day prior. Not N1 as mentioned in the post but a very cool experience.

Re: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 7:29 AM UTC

soheil wrote: post #241

dredmorbius wrote: post #228

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Adblock is your friend. There are mobile browsers which support this (Firefox notably), and mobile-device adblock apps as well, in the event you're not on a desktop system. If you're in a corporate environment, put in a request for adblock on your network as, amongst other things, a security feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28631005

Thanks I didn’t know Firefox with Adblock was an option on mobile.

It is, and is a lifesaver.

Essential extensions: uBlock Origin, Decentralize, Ghostery, Privacy Possum, Privacy Badger, NoScript, Ghostery.

You might also appreciate Dark Reader.

I wish Stylus (CSS manager) was supported.

Its tab management / display is also vastly superior to Chrome's.

Firefox/Android (or Fennec via F-Droid) has some annoyances:

- No keyboard hotkeys.

- Doesn't full-screen maximise.

- No print-to-PDF.

- No per-site font or zoom settings.

- No per-site cookie management.

- Weak Bookmarks controls (bookmarks cannot be reordered once saved).

For a mobile browser, though, it's pretty good. Far superior to Chrome IMO, except on older devices where there's still a noticeable performance penalty (a 2015-era Samsung tablet).

Re: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

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Post by pvarangot » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

sedivy94 wrote: post #146

pvarangot wrote: post #87

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Do you also have the visualizations of interlinked concepts? I find weed makes me have "the thoughts" and they are very present and come fast, but being absolutely sober sometimes those thoughts are there but not moving as fast and they it's more likely they also come with visualizations of the thought process.

I’m not sure if everyone is like this but, in my case, cannabis and psychedelic use has really ramped up that type of mental imagery. I see it without being able to describe how it looks, which is odd. The components usually comprise of blocks of logical arguments and the intersection of event spaces. Another observation: dualistic thinking is a token side-effect of psychedelic use, but I’d go so far as to say I’ve a…

Dualistic thinking is so pervasive in the US that I think it's far fetched to say it's a token side-effect, as much as saying never speaking another language that is not English in your life if a token side-effect of psychedelic use... like the correlation is so big if you do self reported studies just in the US that it will be hard to deal with it.

Probably what's going on is that people just become more aware of dualistic thinking because of the extra open-mindedness or increase in empathy that forces one to somehow deal more with that "other side" that they are definitely "not a part of".

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Post by leobg » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 6:40 PM UTC

AdamJMarsh wrote: post #169

This is interesting. In our never-ending 24 hour news cycle, our central nervous systems are hijacked by adrenaline, glucose, nicotine & caffeine. It is a never ending struggle for our bodies to feel relaxed. I fully believe this is a major hindrance to creativity as the logical, ordered side takes over and rules the roost like a dictator. Although I haven't used this specific technique, I have however done Alexander…

> I have however done Alexander Technique in my theatre training. It's incredible how much tension our bodies can hold without our minds being aware or conscious of it.

I find that very interesting. Can you share more? Specifically, what exercises do you suggest for letting go of such unconsciously held tension in the body? Any books or other resources you can recommend?

Thanks!

Re: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

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Post by michaelcampbell » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 11:39 PM UTC

dinkleberg wrote: post #102

michaelcampbell wrote: post #48

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Maybe? Why would you want to when a simple solution exists?

Is this a legit question? Instead of trying to sleep in an awkward position where you can drop something and have it wake you up, you could sleep in your bed and be woken up at the right time.

OTOH, this just feels like pushing some app solution on something that doesn't need it. Different strokes.

And "right time" is highly debateable given the current tech at determining sleep cycles.