When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
Seeing a horizon can fix short-term balance issues, or temporarily relieve long-term issues like labyrinthitis/vertigo, because it feeds the secondary ocular-vestibulo brain bit and gets you back settled and leveled. Unless you’re drunk or damaged, it’s a neat trick.
I’ve heard this before - I thought it was just looking into the distance. You’ve reminded me to try it though. I went from perfect vision to rather short sighted throughout my life so far 🫣
If your clothes have an odor, you can spray a cheap vodka over them to neutralize the smell.
Don’t they smell of vodka then?
On a similar vein, quit using fabric softeners and dryer sheets.
Fabric softeners use a mild acid to burn off loosening fibers which speeds up the wear of your clothes.
Dryer sheets work by transferring wax from the sheet to your clothing. This smooths those fibers down and waxes them in place. Wax is incredibly good at holding odors, that’s why we use it for candles and why dryer sheets leave a lasting smell. Unfortunately, it’s not picky so any smell can get trapped in that wax and linger for ages.
As it turns out, most modern textiles are made out of finely processed material, you’re going to be hard pressed to find any clothes that actually need that kind of treatment. It’s wholly pointless on synthetic fabrics.
The worst offenders will begin to pill after a while, you simply shave the pills off with a razor or a depiller tool, which is fully affordable with the money you save on not buying dryer sheets.
To DJ Khalid this, here’s another one.
You can purchase wool dryer balls and use a lower setting in your dryer to keep you clothing fibers to reduce the amount of wear.
Wool dryer balls are great. If you go way down the rabbit hole you start making your own soap. I put together a 5 gallon bucket of powders back in April, it cost less than a month worth of Tide, it takes care of anything short of ink stains all on it’s own, you can use it as all purpose cleaner, and I’m not even halfway through the bucket.
Switch to linux
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
Switched to codeberg as well. Microsoft owns github
Switched to codeberg as well
I’m using gitlab-on-prem for now, until their slow code decay and creeping featurism destroys it completely. It’s only barely usable now because of the really dumb CI/runner changes, for example, but forgejo uses a yaml CI setup so that’s never happening.
Drink more water. Eat more fiber.
Yeah if you like poop and pee
“if”
Rapid eye movement and looking at things, mentally noting them, acknowledge sounds and smells can help regulate moments of anxiety.
Yeah this one was weird to hear about, but if i think about it it’s something I do myself, so i guess it really does work.
If you have black coffee either because you’re out of creamer or doing a non-diary thing, sprinkling a tiny bit of salt into the coffee will take the bitterness out of it without tasting salty.
Or try coconut oil. The thick stuff in a jar, nothing added. I had my doubts but it’s surprisingly good, really helps to have a jar when your stuck with really bad coffee.
If you get that feeling where you need to sneeze but it’s not quite enough for a full sneeze, say the word grapefruit. 60% of the time it works every time
For me it’s just looking at something bright.
The uses of “ACHOO syndrome”!
Aka the photic sneeze reflex.
Apparently not everyone has this reflex.
And if you don’t want to sneeze, put a finger under your nose like a fake mustache
That’s not how you grapefruit your man
You can’t make yourself calm down because our emotions control us, not the other way around - but you can control your breath and your breath can affect your emotions. Box breathing, 4-7-8, or even just deep “flower breaths”. All work great at centering yourself when emotions are getting out of hand
The emotional thing:
It is important to remember feelings are things and they arent given to us. But they belong with us. And while you cant suppress or choose to not have an emotion : You can control your actions, reactions and responses around emotions. Cognitive therapy can help.
The breathing thing:
be careful with it. Some people with mechanical breathing disorders (apnea) might be worse off if messing with breath counting and to just make sure they are taking a full breath or acknowledge breath and swifty move on to something automated like heartbeat or checking in on body parts so as to not mess with the mechanics of the brain for taking a natural breath.
After decades of meditation using breath work it started to make my anxiety worse as i found it made my waking and sleeping apnea way WAY worse. Im pretty sure it is what caused the mechanical issue in the brain to hold a breath or not pull it in for too long until suddenly dizzy.
Takes a lot of time with habit building on letting it go to break this cycle in the brain.
You can control your emotions. It takes effort. For example if I’m in a bad mood I can step back and realize I’m actually hungry and that’s why I’m temporarily negative.
Box breathing makes me feel out of breath, which is not an improvement.
I did it for years and im pretty sure it is the cause of the mechanical apnea i have. Ive cut box breath out of my habits and traded it for body checkins. I think its improving the apnea. Slowly. Once the brain builds a habit of holding breath it is super hard to make it let go.
Yeah, I’m told that it takes practice. I usually just do intentional deep breaths. Works great for kids (IME at least)
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