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?
When I cook a broth, I add egg shells to it to keep the broth clear.
Okay so this aounds very counter-intuitive 😂.
How does it work?
Apparently:
An eggshell is mostly calcium carbonate, riddled with microscopic pores, and lined with a thin protein membrane. In hot liquid, that membrane behaves like a natural flocculant, encouraging the tiny proteins and vegetable fines that cloud your stock to tangle together. The shell’s rough surface provides places for these particles to gather, and once aggregated, gravity does the rest. You don’t need much. For 1 litre of broth, the shells from one or two eggs can be enough to coax clarity.
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Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.
Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.
Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.
Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.
YMMV
smoker in my early 20s and this advice might change my life.
Honestly, quit as soon as you can. After the two week mark, you’ll start smelling things again. At the one month mark, you’ll notice that you’re not constantly out of breath. Cravings still occasionally happen, but it shifts from “god damn it I need a donut right now” to “hmm a donut sounds good right now… But I don’t wanna bother with going to the donut shop.” The cravings never fully vanish, but they definitely change and become easier to dismiss as a passing whim.
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If you can’t sleep. Get up. Get out of your bed for a while.
Staying awake while laying in bed often changes the association of sleep with the bed. Removing sleep conditioning effects.
Also as someone who has had insomnia since I was a child. I can tell you if I lay in bed. Unable to sleep. And Stay there. Rolling around. I won’t ever fall asleep.
But if I force myself to get up. Maybe have something to drink. Walk around a bit. Stare out the window for a bit. Then go back , I’m more likely to fall asleep.
And if I’m having really bad insomnia. I go for a walk. At this point I’m my life I can tell if it’s going to require a walk or just getting up and moving around the apartment/house for a bit.
Even a 15-20 min walk can do wonders. But I typically do 30 to 1 hour walk. It depends on how I’m feeling.
You would think exercising in the middle of the night would wake you up more. But nope.
9/10 times I go for a short walk. I get back and fall to sleep almost immediately.
It’s hard to force yourself to get up when you are exhausted and just want to sleep. But it’s do the walk or not sleep at all.
Also. Going out at 2 or 3 am on a week day is kinda of an interesting experience. Depending where you live, you might be the only person around.
It’s eirie and surreal. Subliminal spaces.
I quite like it. That also helps motivate me to do the insomnia walk. (Sometimes I ride my bike instead which is really nice as there are minimum cars. -make sure you are in light clothes and have lights and reflectors on your bike).
Yep. Doctors and randos alike will keep telling you to just try harder. Fuck that.
Read a book. Work some more on your project. Go for a run. Don’t try to sleep.
I have a very stubborn brain that will usually do the opposite of what I want.
My method is to try and turn on a movie or something I really have to pay attention to. I’ll start struggling to stay awake to keep track, and that will knock me out.
Years of reading in bed late at night while exhausted have conditioned me to associate reading with falling asleep. I don’t have insomnia much anymore, often the opposite. Any time I want to lay down and read my book before bed, I’m out like a light before I finish a single chapter. It could be a super power, but it also means it takes me months to finish a single novel. Also not ideal when I occasionally need to read reports or training materials at work and get to the end and my head is on the desk and I can’t keep my eyes open.
Hah, you swapped insomnia for reading-induced narcolepsy. Neat!
The suggestion would be to not read in bed
If you feel like you are about to sneeze, but you don’t want to (maybe you are on a video call, or trying to be quiet, whatever), tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It works surprisingly well.
If you feel like you are about to sneeze but can’t quite manage it (and do want to), tilt your head upwards and look into a bright light.
Just FYI, the photic reflex is not universal.
Sure glad I have it though!
Pete & Pete vibes
Works if you’re photosensitive to any degree, which most people are.
Staying warm actually does ward off illness. Specifically, you need to keep your nose warm or else its local immune response becomes surprisingly ineffective.
I wanna make a nose-hat now to keep warm
Nose warmers is a thing, a silly thing, but a thing.
In a financial negotiation, avoid saying a number first, even if it seems like you’re being rude, just say stuff like “what’s your budget” instead. This trick sounds really stupid but somehow it is extremely effective.
This is why I have doubts about Macklemore’s business acumen:
I went to the moped store, said “Fuck it”
And salesman’s like “What up, what’s your budget?”
And I’m like “Honestly, I don’t know nothing about mopeds”
I suppose at least he doesn’t immediately answer about the budget, but it still seems like a less than stellar negotiating technique.
The most annoying response when trying to get a price from someone
Absolutely. And in a more general sense, whenever negotiating with businessmen, tell yourself they’re nasty rotten pirates beforehand and throughout the process. Visualise them having peglegs, hooks, eyepatches and battered old sea hats. Do NOT give in, do NOT name that number before they do.
I prefer to think of it like a competitive game; you’re trying to win and you aren’t going to go easy on anyone, but you still treat your adversaries with as much empathy and respect as that allows.
When you sprain your ankle, DON’T MOVE. I used to try and walk it off because that’s what everyone does and even coaches recommend it, but that’s when the actual damage is done.
Spraining is usually just your tendons/ligaments going into emergency mode (getting very short/tight). So if you try to walk while they are still tight, they will actually tear, doing damage that takes weeks to heal. If you instead just keep that ankle perfectly still for like 30 seconds to 2 min, the ankle will be completely fine.
Trick is, you have to overcome the social pressure to hurry it along (i.e. on a hike at work, or on a sport field).
I rolled my ankle, damaged the arch of my foot and rode my bike home because I couldn’t walk. I didn’t really have a good support system to say the least and had to rely on myself. I have a slight limp now. Definitely listen to this advice. Dr was facepalming so hard when I told him what I’d done.
I broke my ankle, didn’t realize it was broken, and tried to twist it back into place and stand on it. Twice.
My doctors all had things to say about that, too. As well, like you, I have a pronounced limp after walking more than a few steps.
I sprained my ankle once trying to dodge out of the way of a classmate I was trying to avoid when i saw them at a park 😂 What you say is correct. Kind pf wish I’d gotten it checked at the time but it could’ve been worse and I rested soon after hobbling out of view
If you’re experiencing brainfreeze, press your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Works for me every time.
This has never worked for me
I’ve been told that brain freeze happens because the roof of your mouth detects cold, causing constriction of the blood vessels about your skull. (I looked this up and Wikipedia says it’s only a theory.)
Therefore, to combat that quickly, one needs to warm the roof of your mouth. I’ve gotten mixed results with using the tongue for warmth; I assume that, when it doesn’t work, it’s because whatever cooled the roof of my mouth also cooled my tongue.
Therefore, if your tongue doesn’t do the job,
communicate with your partnerconsuming anything at least a little warmer than the food item that originally caused the problem should help. As the other commenter said, usually a warm drink will suffice, though in my experience it doesn’t even need to be particularly warm. I’ve drunk ice water to help before when the problem was something very cold like ice cream.You could also try drinking some warm water, that could help. I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. 😕
If you have a song stuck in your head, and it’s driving you a bit mad: listen to it. Something about your mind trying to fill things in (it’s been many years since I’ve read this bit of advice, and unsure entirely on why).
Basically songs stick in our head when we can’t finish them, so songs with really subtle endings or heavily repeated phrases will stick the most.
Or try to rememberr how the song ends.
Don’t be a cunt.
Simple advice that works. More people should try it.
I’m addicted, I can’t stop
But that doesn’t sound counter-intuitive my dear fellow
don’t be a cunt.
If you’re clumsy, do a grappling martial art like wrestling or Jiu-Jitsu. After 6 months even if you still suck at that martial art (e.g., me) your nerves and muscles will know how to move shockingly efficiently.
Reminds me of an old bash.org quote. As closely as I can recall:
Someone told me I should dance like I fight, all graceful and shit. It was going well … Until I dropped her on her head.
Musculoskeletal health is important. They’re finding it is tied to your risk of dying prematurely, and martial arts are a great way to keep that in check. Too bad every gym around me has to be smoking something with their pricing.
Ballet or other dance classes can also help agility.
In your head, change the name of a food you wish to avoid. I’ve done this with McD’s.
In my head, it’s been called McDicks since high school. I, personally, don’t enjoy eating dicks. So, when I see the sign, and I feel like a Big Mac would go down easy, I say to myself, “I don’t eat dicks.”
It works.
For those who enjoy eating dicks, well, you’ll have to choose another association. Also, I didn’t think the phrase “feel like a Big Mac would go down easy” would be so overtly sexual.
I honestly hate mcdonalds anyway, but the range of stuff I’ve tried there is very limited - maybe if i had a big mac I’d succumb to the MiccyD.
For me it just feels like food designed to make you sick, either because you’re compelled to eat too much or because it’s sooooo unnatural.
There was this movie on Netflix called Spiderhead where they’re testing drugs including one that makes people overeat until they hurl, and watching it reminded me exactly how i felt whenever I went there as a kid. I steer clear now. Trauma!
For me it just feels like food designed to make you sick, either because you’re compelled to eat too much or because it’s sooooo unnatural.
McDonald’s has been specifically engineered for over half a century to be as pleasing and addictive as possible, by a huge corporation who hires legions of scientists in various disciplines to achieve that singular goal.
In my mind, it’s akin to smoking: the first few times you try it, it’s gross; after that, it’s a dopamine hit that’s easy to become reliant upon.
Drink more water. Eat more fiber.
Yeah if you like poop and pee
Go on…
“if”
“like”
“poop”
“you”
Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.
No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.
I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don’t even miss anything. If you’re struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.
I mean, you can also get some taste in your water by drinking tea.
If I wanted it to taste bad and bitter, sure.
/c/ShitUSiansSay
To those consuming this, 100% try it. The first 3 or 4 days suck because your body expects calories with it’s drink and the buzz of sugar and caffeine. You can escape this by having a small chocolate with your water when you feel the craving.
Second point, mineral content, processing, temperature, and plumbing play a big role in your enjoyment. Personally I can’t drink cold water, it has to be room temperature and tap water here is too mineral heavy. Instead I refill 5 gallon water jugs and use a water crock.
yes. you need water more than calories and while the rule of threes is basically about calories with the three weeks if you don’t have fiber with those calories you will have a medical emergency on your hands. Granted though you can have to much water and fiber so its kinda a balance. I mean granted with water its more about to much water and not enough electrolytes.
Dude, what on Earth are you blabbering on about?
Hyponatremia . We called it hyponatriosis or ‘water-drunk’ in the army. We had a girl in our platoon over-hydrate and go floppy on a march, and my swear-to-god buck-oh-five bunkmate had to play crutch for the rest of it while we all redistroed all their collective gear. (calm your breathing: they marched in back with the medicos under obs the entire time, and we didn’t fail the little exercise we were on, and it was her choice to continue at every stage, and she was lauded for it afterward. This is a heroism story.)
Water with occasional electrolytes ok?
Also did you all reprimand the
deadweight“hero” in private or not?
Rule of threes (survival) - Wikipedia https://share.google/Gc0HVUDXToxTKHD0A
Why is this a Google link?
Guess I wasn’t paying attention. I googled it and then tried to share the Wikipedia page. Guessing I must have clicked on some ai result instead of the actual page. Annoying, unintentional.
water and fiber and the need for both in a diet but also that they can be overdosed.
If you can’t find a comfortable temperature when you’re sleeping under blankets, just stick one foot, and maybe part of your lower leg, out from under of the blankets. It acts like a radiator, and will release much of your excess heat.
A kid showed this to me at a childhood slumber party, and it’s been a useful tip ever since.
I’m not taking advice from an obvious night monster.
The real trick is to put the foot out, then pull it over the blanket so the foot’s surrounded by blanket.
From the view of creatures under the bed, all they see is the blanket.
Seriously, did night monsters write this post?!
But then the monsters might eat my foot!
Really though: I have a visceral aversion to having my feet exposed like that. If I’m lying down or even sitting on the couch, my feet must be covered. I could have no other blankets, except on my feet.
I have that problem with my butt. Can be 10 billion degrees and sweaty af and I have to have a blanket over my butt, even if I have shorts on.
I don’t have that problem any time except sleeping, though.
Yeah, you have a different issue.
Nah, it’s that I would love to be able to use it as a radiator like you suggested, but I have a sensory problem with exposing my feet like that. It’s really annoying actually, because I have some chronic conditions that make me more heat sensitive now, and even though I know it would help a ton, I still can’t stand the feeling of my feet being exposed.
So, same problem, but sadly can’t use your solution.
Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p
That’s noob tier. I’m a blanket junkie for some reason, so I have to compromise in any weather. The blanket could be covering any part of my body, from neck-to-toe to just the legs, to one vertical half, to part of the torso, to just a corner being on me.
stick one foot[…] out
The Snorkel is god-tier advice.
One good thing about using a CPAP is that I can be fully covered by a blanket and still able to breathe. This occurred to me the other day when I left a bedroom window open during a snowstorm but was too lazy to get up and close it.
I flip around when I can’t sleep as well. It only works sometimes for me.
This probably isn’t very useful to most but you’d be surprised how much info you can get from paying attention to the smells around you. I use odor for navigating places like malls.
I have insomnia and I’m just here posting this shit.
I think that’s good advice! We should all try and be a bit more attuned to our senses.
Helps with personal hygiene, too 🤫😅. But - at least for me - a disconnect with our sense of smell largrly comes from living in a city, spending too much time indoors, and spending too much time in our own space which smells like us. So having bad hygiene makes it harder to smell which makes it harder to identify that we have bad hygiene!!
But yeah, I follow my nose a lot more than other people and it makes the world a much more interesting place. People who’ve been to a lot of food markets, perhaps at christmas, understand this.
