... ._. Good night...?

Trying to consider whether it's even worth the effort, tbh. XD

Sleep is effort?

Sadly, yes. Without forcing myself to fall asleep--which leads to a headache next day, usually--I probably won't "naturally" fall asleep for at least another hour and at that point I could at best get slightly over three hours of sleep. Which may end up leaving me more tired than pulling an all-nighter.

On the other hand, three all-nighters in five days, even if one of the two other days was a 17h-sleep crash, is neither a great idea nor a healthy thing to do.

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How do you force yourself to sleep tho?

...with great difficulty?

More seriously, pretty difficult to explain except you basically trick your mind into feeling tired. Not the best thing to do to your mind, as I'm sure you can understand.

Iunno. I would like to know how to force my mind to sleep. Sometimes I can't sleep when I really need to just 'cause my sleeping schedule's so damn off!

Well, do you know how to basically trick your mind into believing it's properly awake even though you're exhausted (like basically forcing a sugar rush without sugar)? It's reasonably similar in principle except you trick your mind into the opposite thing. I suspect it'll differ from person to person, but thinking boring thoughts may help some people. Try to keep thoughts about sleeping away from your surface thoughts or you'll fixate on those instead. For me, shutting down all my thoughts--basically, meditating--doesn't work due to the way my mind works. (I think several different fully-formed thoughts in full sentences parallel to each other while aware of each of them, so that's not something you can shut down) For others, it might. I instead basically drown my mind in more different thought-tracks and awareness-levels simultaneously than it can handle, resulting in a brief lack of focus and mental exhaustion immediately afterwards that--provided my body is tired enough--I can use to fall asleep. Doesn't always work, either, of course--but often enough it does with some severe difficulty.

... That sounds really complicated. I usually just focus on a fantasy and then I eventually fall asleep. Sometimes it doesn't work tho 'cause I get to caught up in my head and I get too invested in the story to sleep. Oops.

Hence I said, "difficult to explain". :P

I wish I could meditate tho. It sounds really restful.

I can't, at least not the traditional ways. I do have a whole lot more control over and awareness of my thoughts than seems to be usual, though.

... I don't really know how brains work so I don't know how aware I am of my own brain.

My brain's kind of a troll tho.

Let's just say I've several times heard someone describe a temporary hyper-awareness of their thoughts which left me "o.O that is not always the case for you?"

D: But with no "base line" I can't decide if I'm below average, average, or above average!

I don't know the baseline, I just know it's apparently very much not common to be thinking between 3 to 6 separate but sometimes vaguely related fully-formed thoughts simultaneously while being aware of those and being aware of that awareness constantly. And with a bit of bad luck, aware of my awareness of my awareness of my thoughts, and being aware of that. XD

... I guess the fact that I don't know how many thoughts I have is a good sign that I'm less aware of my thoughts than you? XD

Oh, there's several thoughts I'm usually unaware of that occasionally flicker into conscious though for a bit, so it doesn't say everything, but yes, I suspect so.

Most people are, so it'd be rarer that you're as aware of your thoughts as I am than that you're not. XD

Iunno. It'd be cool if I had a transcript of everything my brain thought for like 24 hours tho.

Not even I have that, though I do notice if a thought repeats itself identically or close to. Deja vu except not seeing but thinking.

Oh, I repeat thoughts a lot. xD

I like to "daydream" when my mind is idle, I have a few favorite daydreams. :3

Same here, though they're more scenes from my stories that I went with in one direction but considered going off in another.

It's like...like a cheap fanfic of one's own unfinished work, I suppose? Whoops. :P

Originally Posted by Dystopia

Iunno. It'd be cool if I had a transcript of everything my brain thought for like 24 hours tho.

that would be so useful and confusing as hell to look over later!

-poke Kat-

Have had chance to work on your art for yourself yet? :P /is being a nag, knows it. XD

haha. I just woke up! XD