• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    When I find myself falling asleep during a meeting, I’ll hold up a pen a couple centimeters above the table. If I doze off I drop the pen and wake up.

    So if you ever see me just holding a pen up, know that you’re being verbose and it could’ve been an email.

    In case any young people need to hear this: it’s OK to lie at work. You’re literally forced to work or totally unrelated goons will force you onto the street at gunpoint. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Anyone who suffers from insomnia, something I learned that was revolutionary…

      Don’t lay down until you think you’re ready to sleep. Don’t even go into that room where you sleep until your ready to sleep. Stand. Don’t sit or lay. Until you’re ready to sleep. If that’s not an option, sit on the floor on the side of your bed. Just not on your bed.

      When you do lay down and it doesn’t work, leave your bedroom. Or your bed and sit on the floor next to it. You gotta train your brain to associate your bed with sleeping and not anything else.

      Understand that and half the battle is over.

      🫡

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        This is generally a good practice regardless of sleep disorders. I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow because i go to bed to sleep. I dont go to bed to scroll on my phone. I dont have a tv in my room. I will be on a couch or a chair until im done with phone/tv/games, then… instant sleep, and staying asleep all night.

        My wife is amazed by my ability to sleep, but she reads on her kindle and doom scrolls in bed for hours some nights

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          7 hours ago

          Am I able to unlock this power and still fuck my wife on my bed? Or will that train my brain to not sleep in the bed. Do you fuck your wife on the couch? I have so many questions.

      • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        Unfortunately I’m in a studio apartment atm so there really isn’t another room lol

        But yeah, I’ve hear these tips before. I’m sure if I actually followed them it would help, but… bed comfy UwU

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          2 days ago

          You could get those freestanding wall room divider things and make your own room. With blackjack and hookers. And room dividers

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    Fell asleep during a staff meeting once. Former Airforce guy walks up behind me and starts whispering shit sbout fumes and gas and then starts screaming like he’s burning alive.

    I have never fallen asleep in a meeting again.

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    3 days ago

    ∆Tip: Naps also have a chance of applying debuffs depending on your body position

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        Most unskippable cutscenes with the boss are easy to skip if you don’t mind abandoning your current storyline.

        Warning: do NOT try to skip unskippable cuscenes with the law enforcement, unless your storyline absolutely calls for it

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    3 days ago

    Just got a 20 minute nap at work that totally reset my nausea, unfortunately I was looking to use my nausea as a way to take off from work this afternoon, including avoiding this meeting with the bosses in 7 minutes.

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    I miss taking naps, but these days I tend to get into a really good REM phase, have intensely vivid nightmares and stress dreams, and then I wake up with a splitting headache. Like 9/10 times.

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    3 days ago

    This is why I have state of the art glasses that have eyes painted on them so I can sleep during board meetings.