No.927416
>>927415
Good night, anon.
No.927417
>>927415
Sleep well, anon.
No.927433
Don't get out of your futon because it's cold out there.
No.927651
No.927670
>>927666
I feel you, Satan.
No.927961
Good morning /a/, hope today is bright sunny skies and a nice warm spring day for everyone!
No.927968
>>927961
It's already too damn hot. Fuck this lowly nigger season.
No.927975
Why do I lie to myself every night?
No.927990
Kizuna AI made a video about May Fever, and not being able to sleep is one of the symptoms.
No.928025
Zzz… I love this community.
No.928026
>>927968
I'm counting the days for when comfy cold days return.
No.928027
>>928025
I love most of you faggots too.
No.928029
You can say 「good night」all you want, but what sort of 「good morning」are you guys looking for?
No.928031
>>928029
One where I don't have to get up to go to work.
No.928032
>>928029
One where I feel motivated to get out of bed.
No.928091
>>928029
One where I don't feel pain somewhere on my body just trying to get out of bed.
No.928114
>>928032
>>928091
What is it about anime that causes these symptoms?
No.928115
>>928029
The sort where I awake to the sight or smell of breakfast after getting a good nights sleep.
No.928120
>>928029
I want a hug and a kiss!
>>928031
This too.
No.928123
>>928114
Anime shows you how beautiful life could be if the vast majority of people weren't horrible. Once you've seen what the world should be like, it's hard to feel anything but disdain for the world as it is.
No.928129
>>928123
Then I'm going to stay here browsing /a/ in bed where life is good!
No.928130
>>928114
I call it the "buyfag's conundrum" where anon realizes he needs money to enjoy his hobby even more (or just to not starve), and thus has to forego his hobby now in hopes of being able to quadruple his potential output later. Side effects include work, being in car accidents, sleepiness, nausea, general pain/discomfort, and a sense of zetsubou. Other symptoms may exist. A good remedy to these symptoms is to have anon hold a wad of cash he's earned in his bare hands. This tends to ease his suffering and might in some cases cease certain symptoms such as "work" altogether.
No.928131
>>928115
>Breakfast and a good night's sleep
That sounds beautiful, anon.
No.928133
Hope most you of didn't have to work on the weekend.
>implying that /a/ons have jobs
No.928134
>>928029
A 「good morning」where I wake up spooning my waifu, and having her ruffle my hair as she wishes me a good morning before giving me an affectionate kiss on the forehead would be good. We'd eat breakfast together as she prepares for her own day out and about after which I get ready to brave the earth once more and tell her I'll be back home that night and that we'll go camping during our next day off together. That'd be nice.
No.928142
>>928133
I had to work Saturday and Sunday. At least it was 1.5x pay in Saturday and 2x pay in Sunday.
No.928143
>>928131
At least I manage the "good night's sleep" part. Even if I'm not doing anything but lazing around, it's much better to go to sleep at 10-11pm and wake up early than sleep away half the day. In my opinion at least.
Still, having somebody to prepare my breakfast and dinner would be even better.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=sbgFHHfvLNI
No.928151
>>928133
I work nightshift, it's not a fancypants job but since I'm an insomniac, I figured might as well get paid for being awake at night.
No.928164
>>928151
I got moved over to 2nd shift for a few months at my job last summer. It was kinda hard to get used to at first but it was kinda comfy once i got used to it. Showed up at 14:00 and then got off at 22:30. Tried to get in bed around 05:00 and then wake up around 13:00.
No.928166
Reminder: Getting REM sleep helps the body to repair itself and makes serotonin flow.
Sleep during the day and the voices will appear again.
No.928177
>>928133
Those excursions to the Promised Land ain't going to fund themselves, I'm afraid.
And so, the wageslave life I chose.
No.928182
>>928133
The only time I get weekends off is when I request them once or twice a year.
No.928227
>>928166
>finally found a good combination of drugs that puts me out and makes my dreams vivid as fuck
>dreams are so good all I want to do is sleep and never wake up
No.928228
>>928227
Please share.
I've experimented with weed oil before bed to keep me k/o'd until morning but I end up waking up spooked in the middle of the night, too high to sleep.
No.928229
>>928228
Not that other anon, but regular meditation before bed has given me very long and vivid dreams. Dreams aren't necessarily good or bad though. I'm trying to figure out how to influence the content.
No.928232
>>928229
In an attempt to increase my chances of achieving lucid dreams I have started keeping a dream journal about a year or two ago, apparently this helps with realizing you're dreaming and becoming lucid.
It certainly helps you remember dreams very vividly for a long time. Instead of forgetting them, they kind of transform into memories once you write them down. So even like a year later, you can usually go over your entries and still recall the experience, which is pretty cool. I try to write down any dreams that I find to be somewhat special in one way or another. However sometimes it's too much fucking work to flip over and start writing when you're half asleep.
I have not had any luck in achieving any more lucid dreams though. I'm sure the key is to make a conscious effort before falling asleep to gain lucidity, but that's the time when I'm busy thinking about anime girls and such so it never works out.
No.928242
Good night /a/. I wish you luck on your journey.
No.928244
>>928133
I'm thankfully doing nothing this long weekend.
No.928247
>Tfw you know tomorrow is Monday and you will have to wake up early and go to work.
I miss the neet life. Nite /a/.
No.928257
>>928232
You don't have to write the whole dream out when you wake up, just scribble down a few key words and you'll be surprised how much jumps back out at you, even a full day later, just seeing those words.
No.928261
>>928232
The journal methods help you see common themes in your dreams so you can figure out whether or not your dreaming. Thinking about wanting to lucid dream around bedtime is another one. The methods that are most interesting to me are the reality check methods, it comes from the idea that your dreams can't perfectly recreate some things like the patterns of your palm or your reflection in a mirror so you basically make a conscious effort to look at and think about these things while you are awake so that it becomes a habit even while you dream.
No.928326
>>928228
Usually I take 2 benadryl tabs, 4 10mg melatonin tabs, 2 ibuprofen, and a 5-HTP pill. Not sure if that last one helps, I've been taking them for a while but idk if it's just a placebo thing. Drink about 3 beers before this and take the pills about 2 hours before I need to sleep. Then I drink a bit of kratom before going to sleep. The dreams I get are pretty vivid and varied, I usually spend a lot of the morning thinking about them. I don't really care to try and lucid dream though, so I don't write them down.
No.928327
>>928326
How is your liver not busted?
No.928329
>>928326
Doing drugs is no good.
No.928331
>>928326
Are you sure it's healthy to combine those pills like that?
No.928339
>>928331
The only ones that are probably dangerous to mix are the benadryl and ibuprofen since they're both anti-inflammatory meds if I remember correctly.
No.928354
>>928327
i don't really want to think about it, so I won't.
>>928329
If I don't take em I can't sleep, and I think not sleeping is worse.
But I thought this was a comfy tired /a/non thread, there's no point in trying to guilt us out of what works. He asked for what I do so I told him the truth.
No.928372
>>928326
>40 mg of melatonin
>2 bennies
>2 ibuprofen
>Hydroxytryptophan
>booze
Holy fucking shit anon, are you Hunter S. Thompson?
No.928375
>evening
>can't sleep
>go to bed late
>get no sleep in because the noise at home starts at 5am and either way the genius who designed this house thought it was a great idea to have a window facing east in my room
>shit/piss as hard as I can before sleeping and always wake up partially because I really need to pee
>spend the entire day restless, tired, cranky, with the back of my eyes hurting, feeling heavy on my limbs, and with back pain
>bonus: it's cold this season and I don't have much to cover myself with, wake up with my butt cold as ice
>repeat
Night night, /a/.
No.928397
>>928339
>>928372
The greater concern is the Diphenhydramine and Alcohol. That combination can actually kill, where as the Ibuprofen and Alcohol will just cause ulcers or straight up stomach bleeding. The latter is extremely unpleasant to deal with given it doesn't just go away when you stop mixing the two/stop taking one for ever and ever. HST would probably be drinking bottles of lab grade cannabis extracts that can knock a horse out.
No.928429
>>928397
I'm more concerned with the kratom interacting with all those other drugs. People have died from using kratom with this kind of cocktail before and it would only take a careless increase in dose between anything he mentioned to cause an OD.
No.928445
>>928375
>always wake up partially because I really need to pee
Anon invest in a chamber pot of some description. It's much easier if you don't have to leave your bed to piss. I would also suggest drinking an hour before your final toilet trip and bed, and not drinking anything after that.
No.928459
>>928232
I rarely remember having dreamed at all, never mind details enough to keep a dream journal. I only remembered one real dream in the past two months, plus one or two cases of vague impressions and phrases jittering about with no fully-formed images or actions. On the other hand, I was able to recognize during the dream that I was doing things that were impossible so I imagine lucidity would be possible if I actually started having more dreams to be lucid during.
As for dreams about cute anime girls, I've only ever had a single one that I remembered when I woke up. It was about an uncharacteristically calm and collected Akari finding out about Akane's sister complex and accepted it. She patted her onee-san's imouto-pantsu-adorned head. Pretty good, would dream again.
Most of the time the only "dreams" I remember are odd half-asleep worries or fake realizations that are actually possible. Simple things like 8chan shutting down, a missed due date, and so on. They happen during very shallow sleep, not the deep sleep of proper dreams, to the point that it's not unusual for the worry to fully wake me up and leave me double-checking the calendar. It's really annoying, leaving my sleep restless or interrupted and starting my morning off with the stress of needing to reassure myself it wasn't real. Oddly enough, despite these shallow-sleep delusions, I've only had sleep paralysis once, with the accompanying hallucination being a rather boring stationary black silhouette.
No.928593
sleep tight /a/ have sweet dreams, I love you
No.928638
Good morning, /a/non. How was your sleep?
No.928643
>>928227
>>928326
>using drugs
>not waking up at 6-7am on weekends, falling asleep again and tenderly loving 2hus in your dreams
Does anyone here draw sketches of particularly interesting dreams?
No.928644
>>928638
it was nice, so nice in fact that I don't want to get up now.
No.928645
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I can no longer imagine a scenario where my waifu could possibly love me back and it's killing me. It's not that I think I'm a inadequate person, but in comparison to her I feel like I am.
No.928650
>>928645
Your love is all that matters anon. What your waifu would do and say were always fantasy; that's something for you to enjoy or not, but it's your own love that's truly real. And if you can look inside yourself and confirm the strength and authenticity of that feeling, don't you think she could see and appreciate the 2D within you?
No.928689
>>928645
now you know how /christian/ feels.
No.928788
Good Morning, /a/,
I think this thread is having a positive influence on me. Last night I had 2 long, distinct dreams, which is quite unusual, normally I don't remember anything at all. I didn't particularly like these dreams, but it's a good start.
The first was mostly insignificant; I found a bunch of expensive electronics while cleaning up at work with a friend, he took them all home.
In the second I received a baby African (not Australian) crocodile in a package. He repeatedly taunted me and chewed a hole through any box I put him in. Eventually I resorted to putting him in the microwave, since he wouldn't likely be able to escape from there. The crocodile called me a sad loser for resorting to killing him in such a tortuous way, I replied that I wasn't going to turn the microwave on, but I needed to lock him away. Anyway, the microwave did turn on and despite my attempts to turn it off by pulling out the power cord, the croc came out, cooked but still alive, as part of a stew a minute later. Whether out of mercy or in the name of a meal I took out a knife and butchered him; immediately I was hit with the horrible smell of his entrails, which woke me up.
No.928801
Does /a/ take afternoon naps? It's some of my happiest, most comfy times.
No.928805
>>928801
No, I'm always working in the afternoon.
I tend to take "early evening" naps when I get home, but those are completely unintentional and usually I get upset about them since it means I missed out on part of my alone time.
No.928828
Sleep well in my stead /a/. I have extra work to do and will probably have 2 hours of sleep.
No.928831
>>928828
>2 hours of sleep
3 hours is considered like the bare minimum, anon. Don't do this to yourself.
No.928835
>>928801
Does collapsing on a shop floor count, then I guess I do.
No.928846
sleep tight /a/
and wish me luck, I have my final final tomorrow, if all goes well, I have a bachelors degree and can begin teaching by the end of the year
No.928848
>>928846
Break a leg, anon!
If you need luck to get through your final you probably should have been more studious.
No.928850
>>928846
Sleep well anon.
Best of luck on your last final.
No.928894
>>928846
You can teach with a bachelor's degree?
I have to get a master degree plus one and a half years of "on the job training" before I'm allowed to.
No.928919
>>928894
Finland? It's the only country I know of with such strict requirements for primary school teachers, assuming that's what you're referring to.
No.929072
>>928846
I made it anons
>>928894
only need a bachelors, certificates and 4 years of in classroom experience, all of which I have now, I think for middle and highschool you don't even need a degree in the field you're teaching in, just any bachelors, which is odd.
Sleep tight /a/ and have a comfy summer
No.929089
I just finished Misuzu's route in AIR.
Here's hoping I won't have anymore weird VN-inducing dreams tonight. I'll probably be fine because it didn't really complete her story. I take it I have to finish the other routes before I can know what the hell is going on.
It was nothing like Mai or Makoto's routes from Kanon last winter, but there still were some moments that shook a few sobs from me and my head is reeling from everything I experienced.
Anon-chin pinch! I'll let you know if it happens again. Good night, see you tomorrow.
No.929113
>>928919
Nah, Germany.
Our school system is a bit different, but even elementary school teachers need to get their Master's Degree. I didn't look into it to much, but they have their emphasis of pedagogic and take "foci" (like Math or English) instead of their subjects. The requirements for those are about the same though.
For everyone else (real teachers, as I call them), they need to get their combination Master's for the two subjects they want to teach, with at least one of them being a primary subjects (mine being English and History, for example), and then some pedagogic/didactic classes. Now, depending on what secondary school you want to teach (a particularity of our school system is that kids are "sorted" into three different schools after elementary school depending on their grades) you have a different emphasis on either your subjects or didactics. Then in addition to that everyone also needs to take "German as a secondary language/Dealing with migrants without killing them or yourself" for two semesters.
Of course, you need to do an "internship" of sorts in a school for one semester in addition to taking uni classes during the ~4th semester, the aforementioned "on the job training" for 1,5 years when you've got your Master's, and if you're learning a foreign language you have to spend at least one semester in a country where that language is at least a secondary language. Do note that you don't necessarily need to go to Uni there, you could also just fuck around doing "work" and travel for 6 month.
An arduous journey, to be sure, but I get to be around prime age girls all the time.
Well, enough about that.
No.929118
Had an /a/ related dream last night.
I met someone from middle school who told me that there was a Love Live concert going on. I appeared in the concert hall, which looked like the gym from my old school. It seemed to be a mix of girls from Aquors and μ's. They were all on the stage riding brooms as if they were horses and singing. Parts of the handles were wrapped in purple cloth. Finally they ended their song and they all came down to the floor of the gym. That's when everyone was allowed to dance, including with Aquors and μ's themselves. While everyone was figuring out what to do I saw Ruby standing alone in the crowd and we started dancing while holding hands. We danced some strange jig, then a waltz, then a tango, and then I was holding her close from behind for the last dance. I can't remember anymore of this dream.
No.929130
>>929118
Do you have a waifu anon because if not you know what this means.
No.929132
>>929118
That is precious.
No.929137
Sweet dreams to everyone.
No.929147
>>929130
If I didn't already have a waifu of whom I have dreamed before, I would take this as a sign. But as it is I'll take it as a pleasant fantasy of being in 2D high school.
>>929132
It was. I wish I could remember more because it made me feel really good when I woke up. However, I wanted to have more dreams so I went back to bed without writing it down right away.
No.929148
>>929147
Idols are for everyone.
No.929149
What do I have to do to open my eyes at 3am and see this?
No.929151
>>929149
Sleep next to your tablet.
No.929153
>>929089
Nothing happened that I could remember, but the sleep did feel off. I slept for about 11 hours.
No.929254
>>929149
Any "satisfactory" answer I can provide you would violate rule 6 so all I can recommend is >>929151 anon.
No.929281
G'night /a/. See you all tomorrow. Well, today. Later.
No.929510
>>929417
Wrong. The actual title of this image is "hassciencegonetofar.png".
No.929739
Didn’t sleep all weekend, got back from a milsim airsoft game. When I did manage to take a small 5 minuet catnap I was awoken by blank gun fire, flares and screaming. I was so tired that I began dreaming with my eyes open while guarding a door at 4AM. It was fun.
No.929900
Good morning /a/. Ready to get bullied today?
No.930019
No.930029
No.930086
>>928123
>Disdain for the world as it is
>Want a better world
>Would remake the world if you could
>Tfw you are super powers and a few plucky teenagers away from being the villain
>>928029
The one where I wake up to the smell of french toast and my waifu comforts me after having such a bad dream
No.930088
>>930070
>>929900
How did you guys sleep? I couldn't get a wink of it so now I'm up for another day.
No.930106
>>930086
I already think of myself as a shitty villain without any powers. I don't need them to be super either. I'll take anything I can get.
No.930107
>>930088
>went to bed at 11 feeling dead tired
>still lay awake until around 2
>woke up at 4 and fell back asleep
>woke up again at 6 and dozed
>alarm went off at 6:30
No.930261
>>930106
Yeah but how can you remake the universe and fight plucky high school students without infinite cosmic power?
No.930337
Good morning /a/. I must have passed out last night.
No.930372
I just had the most amazing dream ever, /a/.
I can't post it on 8chan because it's so long, so I'm linking a pastebin.
https://pastebin.com/raw/b4sWLvCq
No.930430
>>930372
Fuck anon I'll need to read this later that's a lot of shit.
No.930440
>>930372
>Isekai sadist fantasy harem end
Do you do anything special to get dreams like this?
No.930449
>>930372
Anon... Chapter 2 when?
No.930523
>>930440
Not him but one thing I know works is to eat real (not processed) cheese before going to sleep. Different types have different results
Just don't try it with blue cheese if you value your sanity
No.930526
>>930523
You're fucking retarded.
No.931018
>>930882
You worry with band-aids and blood.
No.931271
I feel like there's something to be said.
Take it easy tonight, brothers, and let's build a great tomorrow when you wake up.
No.931283
ANON!
It's die-joubu o'clock!
WAKE UP!
No.931288
>dreamt that I was in some kind of convention
>browsing goods for sale at stalls
>find some merch of my waifu
>want to buy it
>talk to the vendor
>the vendor is my waifu
>my Japanese is broken, but she's all smiles and helps me get the right words
>she tells me it costs one heisei
>I, the knowledgeable dreamer, know this means 20 yen
>hand over a fat stack of bills worth 20 yen
>get my waifu merch from my waifu
>move on for no apparent reason
>dream later turned into me being stuck at a Japanese safari with a bunch of stupid tourists who got all the big guns and I got a .22 and I was perceptively irritated the entire time
I'm happy I got to see her, but my dream self is stupid.
No.931289
>>931288
> bunch of stupid tourists who got all the big guns and I got a .22
So, you are bothered by your penis size.
No.931321
>>931288
>20¥
You're waifu a gutter slut. Or really, really old.
No.931647
This thread gives me nice feeling. Sleeping girls are the cutest.
No.931753
>>931667
>>931671
Be comforted with me.
No.931776
>>931647
It's good for your soul.
No.931845
Sleep tight Anon, we'll be waiting
No.931853
>>931851
Why do you post images of happy girls sleeping when none of us are happy or girls?
No.931855
>>931853
>not being a little girl
GET OUT
No.931858
>>931853
Of course we are little girls. Why else would we watch stupid cartoons for children?
No.931859
>>931853
We're all cute little girls here, don't you know that?
However, I don't know how many of us are happy or sleeping.
No.931860
>>931855
>>931858
>>931859
But I didn't specify little.
No.931861
>>931860
But literally everyone on /a/ is a loli and if you imagine you're talking to anything else, you're in for a surprise.
No.932111
Can't sleep. Too much work to be done.
No.932118
>>932104
You will never be the oji-san. No matter how much whiskey you drink, no matter how many cigarettes you smoke, no matter how many 16-hour days you work, you will always be a cute little girl. Face up to reality and realize what you are.
No.932119
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This thread should be comforting. Good night.
No.932137
>>932118
> realize what you are.
An oji-san who is becoming more of an ojii-san in outlook.
No.932162
>>932137
Wanna talk about mowing the lawn pruning bonsai?
No.932296
>>932162
Only if we also talk about today's generation being lazy coddled good for nothings who are ruining this world and so forth.
No.932334
Good night. Not bad night.
No.932475
>>927415
Good morning night, /a/.
No.932632
I slept, but I can't say I got some rest.
No.932655
What a miserable night.
Normally I sleep terribly without a comforter/duvet on. I need to feel the weight or I can't get cozy. But I haven't installed an AC yet, so it was at least 25 degrees in my room as I tried to sleep last night. I ended up sleeping naked with just the thinnest sheet I had over my lower half, and with the window wide open because even the noise from nearby train tracks and a fire station were worth it to let in some marginally cooler night air. I'm going to die if I don't get an AC in before it starts breaking 30.
I can't imagine what it's like living in a genuinely hot area, like southern parts of the US. Nor how the Japanese get by with their general lack of temperature control.
No.932691
>>932655
Just get a fan you nigger. Do it and experience the joy of pretending the ocean breeze blows upon you all the time.
Starting mid-Spring, my windows practically never close and the fan is always on because it is the ultimate comfy.
Also,
<not having trained yourself to turn the sounds of trains and sirens into a bedtime lullaby
You lose, try again.
No.932696
>>932691
Fans are bullshit. They don't actually cool you down at all, just trick you into thinking it. After spending an entire summer with one on, it fucks up the cooling mechanism of your body or something and you get an uncomfortable lingering cold feeling wherever the fan was blowing on you. And god have mercy on you if the fucking thing is off for even a few minutes once you get used to it, because you'll actually feel worse than if you had never used it.
At best they can scoop up air and blow it into the room if placed near a window, but the air outside is still probably hot so you're not achieving much. Might be smarter to invest in one of those small air conditioning/air cooling appliance things. No idea how well they actually work though.
No.932697
>>932655
Mainly the way to sleep through humid and hot summer nights is nude or in underwear, you'll maximize the chance of being comfy enough to sleep.
No.932702
>>932696
Not true. They accelerate the evaporation of moisture from your body, thus accelerating cooling.
Your lingering cold feelings or whatever, are just you being retarded.
t. fan master
No.932704
>>932655
>Nor how the Japanese get by with their general lack of temperature control.
I thought air conditioners were pretty common in Japan? Has anime lied to me?
No.932705
>>932704
They are but if I go on a limb here: I think they are definitely present in public/work spaces but I think the social norm is to be frugal about consuming energy in private, and to accept the natural way of things. Which is an admirable trait.
This is the same reason behind using a kotatsu in winter. You can be sure than in winter a regular Nip household will be colder than what you're used to.
So basically the age-old Nip wisdom is this: "Deal with it, you bitch."
No.932707
>>932705
>social norms
>accept the natural way of things
It's more about about it being really fucking expensive to keep the AC on 24/7 in summertime nipland or heat up an entire household during winter. Temperature control makes expenses go through the roof.
No.932793
>>932691
><not having trained yourself to turn the sounds of trains and sirens into a bedtime lullaby
>You lose, try again.
What can I say? I'm used to not hearing anything through my window at night except rustling leaves, bugs, and the occasional pack of coyotes.
No.932957
No.932959
>>932957
Don't have any coffee or tea, turn off any and all electric appliances that has blue LEDs or anything with too much light source. Close your eyes and don't move around, tell your brain to shut the fuck up.
Don't have any music or anything too stimulating on the background, if you absolutely must have low level background noise, put something with a monotone audio or voice at a low volume.
No.932987
>>932959
>>932957
Also, yawn and stretch while you are laying in bad.
No.933042
>>932957
I use to struggle with sleep, so I'll tell you every effective practice I've come across. >>932959 has very good advice. We spend all day stimulating ourselves, so a good way to tell the body the day is over is to slow down your activity towards the evening. Install a blue light filter if you want to use the computer after dark. A strange but effective tip is to take a freezing cold shower. It'll make you want to get in bed to warm up, and as you do, the experience is such a pleasurable relief that you fall asleep.Also, try letting in a little fresh air in before bed time. If it's too hot outside, just open the window for a little bit to recycle the air. If you don't exercise regularly, I would suggest you take it up. A weary body is one that needs sleep, very much unlike one that sits around all day. My last and favorite tip is to meditate. People build up a lot of stress throughout the day, and even when relaxing in the evening, you still have some left. Mediation is a way to let that left over anxiety seep out of you. It's extremely calming, and not only does it help me sleep, but it makes my sleep more efficient. Since I started doing it regularly I have no issues getting up early, and sometimes I even do it when I have the freedom to sleep-in.
No.933046
>>932957
I'd basically listen to the anons above, but I've found something that the reason I don't want to sleep at night is usually because I don't want the new day to begin. I've found that sleeping is actually a matter of faith for me. Just like many clergy and as it's briefly discussed in the bible occasionally, going to sleep is an act of telling god "alright, I'm entrusting everything to you that it can wait until tomorrow or that you'll help take care of it, so let me have my moment of peace from this mortal coil." Something about embracing the "it can't be helped" mindset makes going to sleep much more easy to do. Then again I'm also becoming like an old man where I take naps in the late afternoon and my sleep cycle is typically broken into two segments with a few hours inbetween them.
No.933072
>>933046
Not that anon, but you've finally made me realize what has been giving me trouble for a while. A lot of the worst stuff I've had to deal with happens during the 3:00 - 4:00 AM hour. I don't have trouble sleeping so much as I just procrastinate going to bed until I can't help it anymore out of anxiety. I've really grown to hate sleeping.
No.933119
>>932959
>>932987
>>933042
>>933046
Thanks anons. Your concern really touches me. I came home exhausted today and went right to sleep, but then I woke up in about 2 hours and couldn't sleep again. I'm so exhausted.
I think I'm having anxiety issues similar to the anon above me, but understanding it isn't going to help. I always feel like there's more work to be done, and I'm not even sure what that "work" is. "Instead of sleeping, I could be doing X, but if I don't sleep then I can't do Y tomorrow, which I need for Z", etc. keeps rolling around in my head.
Additionally, I just noticed this because I haven't done it in a while, but I can't get myself to meditate for the first time in my life. I can't get my mind to relax and it's scary. Oh no, I almost started crying there. Is there any way to relieve this kind of stress? I'm so tired, but I can't get myself to rest. If Senko-san came into my life today, I wouldn't be able to accept her pampering.
I usually don't like to post stuff like this here, but lack of sleep has made my brain stupid. I'm sorry for disturbing the thread with my blog, but it can help stimulate conversation, right?
No.933120
>>933119
This will take a little while but it works well for me. Start with your feet. Tense one up, pointing toes towards your shin. Hold for a count of ten, then slowly relax and slow count to ten. Point your toes the opposite way and do the same thing. Tense your calves, thighs, whole lower body this way. Systematically go up your body doing this. Puff your stomach out and hold for ten. Draw it in and hold for ten. Splay your fingers. Stretch your arms. Roll your shoulders forward and tense your back. Roll your shoulders back and tense your chest. Do head rolls side to side. When your mind wanders from what you're up to, just re-center yourself. The slow count is something to help you keep your focus. After you've done all of that, take some very deep breaths and lie down. Tell yourself the tension is entirely out of your body and try and get heavy. Imagine someone was carrying you and relax in such a way that it'd be a pain for them to carry you is what I mean by "get heavy". Sorry if that's not too specific. Just tell yourself you're going to rest for a little. Stay entirely in the present and just rest. Let the future take care of itself. You're in the present resting, being comfy. Remember that feeling of relaxing after you've tensed up for a while if your mind starts to race. Stay that way.
No.933122
>>933120
Thanks, anon. First, I'm having a cup of tea and a bite to eat because I just remembered I didn't eat tonight. That has also been an issue with me lately, forgetting to eat.
As long as I'm awake, I might as well get a little more work done, too, but I'll try out that method tonight straight after.
No.933123
>>933122
I hope it works out for you anon. One other thing. If I find that my thoughts just keep chaining one after the other I try imagining things. Like fish moving through water or the way skates glide on ice. Those might work for you, but if not, imagine something that moves gracefully without friction. After I can really get a feel and mental image of something like that, I try and treat thoughts that come to me like that. They can glide by, but they don't stick. Thoughts that stick will chain from X to Y to Z. But if I let them glide by, they don't chain as much and I'm not anxious when thoughts enter my head. The thoughts are just going to glide by, after all. No reason to be concerned. Be good to yourself anon and I hope you rest well.
No.933178
>>933123
Thanks, anon. I was able to sleep pretty well last night for the first time in three days.
A lady started crying right outside my door, then I heard a child's footprints run along the apartment balcony at 3 am. It spooked me out, but I managed to lay still and just fall asleep. I didn't want to be abducted by ayys.
No.933184
>>933178
>A lady started crying right outside my door, then I heard a child's footprints run along the apartment balcony at 3 am.
No.933187
>>933119
>Close your eyes, close your eyes
>And relax, think of nothing tonight
I know it's easy for me to say but try not to worry about it. Don't try to block it from your mind at all costs but just accept it the way it is and give an "eh", since it won't change for better or worse no matter how much you think about stuff.
No.933209
>>933178
Sounds like ghosts or homeless people. Sage and salt will spook the ghosts. Homeless are best ignored.
You need to tell the ghost forcefully to get the fuck out. Otherwise they'll comeback and fuck with you. Also be thorough because they will just move to areas where you haven't laid down barriers and wait it out.
No.933211
>>933209
Homeless aren't able to get in front of my door.
No.933213
>>933209
What if anon lewds the ghost? Would it get too embarassed and never come back or would it lewd anon back?
No.933214
>I always feel like there's more work to be done, and I'm not even sure what that "work" is
I think you should read "Getting things done". Even if you don't have any kind of project which you want to commit to, just following the advices of the book and writing all that comes to your head and processing all of that information will leave it empty and let you relax for once in your life. I started doing it because I also had too much anxiety and stress and couldn't stop procrastinating shit, but now I can actually sit or lay down without a milliard of things floating and bugging me inside my mind and I finally got rid of that "there's something you should be doing right now" feeling that followed me everywhere and was constant through the whole day. Not anymore, though.
No.933215
>>933119
>>933214
>forgot to quote
I feel deeply ashamed. Please understand
No.933216
>>933178
Glad it worked out for you. Keep doing it before you go to sleep. I've noticed that it's easier to hit deep states of relaxation having done that for a while now. If you only do this right before resting, then you'll be conditioning yourself to associate this relaxed state with rest.
As for the other stuff, what >>933209 said works well. Just like imagination being useful for relaxing and clearing your mind, it's useful for keeping that stuff out. If you're imagining barriers, spend time giving them color and dimension. Naturally, pay special attention to doors, windows, and ventilation.
Wishing you many a restful sleep anon.
No.933223
>>933213
According to my research, anons who lewd ghosts tend to have their life essence sucked out slowly until they die of illness or fatigue.
No.933267
>>933223
>die of illness or fatigue.
Okay, but how is that any different from regular 3dpd life in general.
No.933268
>>933223
But doesn't that just mean you can be with your newfound ghost waifu forever?
No.933296
>>933267
I imagine it involves more handholding.
No.933340
>>933223
>Lewd ghost waifu but die of fatigue
>Now a ghost but too tired to spook living people
>Find an abandoned home where you can rest with your now ghost waifu and together spook those who dare to enter your new designated hand-holding and using-lap-as-pillow house.
Can't see what's so bad about it.
No.933723
>>930261
By becoming a teacher and flunking them?
No.933726
6am
Going to bed after fapping to drawn loli pictures. Living the dream /a/! Living the dream.
kill me
No.933728
>>933726
Get some melatonin, start working out in your room, and aim to fall asleep by 21:00, so that you can get up by 5:00. You'll have a lot more energy, and so you'll feel like you also have a lot more time.
No.933730
>>933728
I just set my computer to shut itself off at the same time every night and that's been working pretty well. It needs to be paired with a way of making myself wide awake at times like 5 am, though.
No.933901
>>933730
If you have some kind of device with an alarm you could set it to go off at 5 am until your body gets adjusted to wake up at that time naturally. You could probably have your computer auto-start at the same time as well.
No.933908
>>933901
It doesn't work.
>t. Has been trying to adapt to 5AM wakeup for two years to no avail
No.933917
>>933908
Wake up naturally one day, then set your alarm to wake you up 30 minutes earlier the next day. Then the next day set your alarm 30 minutes earlier than the day before until you wake up at the desired time. But don't force yourself too much; if you wake up dead tried at e.g. 7:00 one day, then just keep your alarm at 7:00 for one or two more days until you are comfortable with it. And then you can set your alarm to 6:30, and hope that you can tolerate the new time, so that you can wake up at 6:00 in the day after tomorrow.
Also, make a routine for waking up, and an other one to go to sleep. My wake up routine is to go through these exercises just after I get out of bed: http://archive.is/MII1Z They might seem to be a bit goofy, and the text promises quite a lot, but they do make your blood circulate, and that's what really matters. As advised I take a cold shower, then I eat my breakfast which consist of an onion and a can of sprat, although I usually add a few more ingredients to make it more palatable. This whole routine is a bit less than an hour for me, and I obviously won't start up my computer at least until I'm done with the shower.
To fall asleep I go through a reduced version of this: https://invidio.us/watch?v=8_8M53Y5PvI Currently I only do some squats, the the push ups, then some pull ups, and then call it a day. It's not much, but better than nothing. I usually listen to music or some podcast while doing so, but once I'm done with the exercise I immediately turn off my computer and take a cold shower. After that shower I read for about an hour, or until I get sleepy, then I try to fall asleep by 21:00. Popping a pill of melatonin just after the shower helps a lot. My first alarm is at 4:45, the second one is at 5:00, and upon hearing that I get out of my bed and do the morning routine.
Do this every day of the week, except for one, but even on that off day (usually it's sunday for me) you should try to get out of the bed no later than 6:00. If you can keep it up for a few weeks, then your body will naturally want you to keep following it, and you will actually miss the exercises if you don't do them. A problem though is that if you mess up even once then you might need a week or more to get back into the rhythm. Like me just now: I had an important exam last week, so I skipped on everything and concentrated on studying for a few days. Then I got sick and only feel fine today. I'll try my best to wake up at 5:00 by the start of the next week, because I have no energy after waking up at a different hour every day.
No.933920
>>933917
Forgot to mention: don't take cold showers lightly, otherwise you might get dizzy, trip, and that can lead to life threatening injuries in the bathroom. First take your normal hot showers, but switch to cold water in the end and see how long you can withstand it. Once you are comfortable with that feeling you can skip the hot water. But even then, at first you should spray the water on your limbs, and only then on your body and head. If you've been doing that for a while you can switch to the manly version and just launch a jet of cold water against your head and torso. This whole ordeal might take a few weeks or even more, but don't be dishearted.
No.934004
I sleep whenever I feel like, and have no consistency! Am I taking it too easy?
No.934005
>>934004
>Am I [??????????]
I don't understand, did you accidently your post?
No.934045
>>934005
I said, am I taking it too easy?
No.934049
I took a nap in the afternoon and now my sleep schedule is fucked.
No.934061
>>934049
I'm physically unable to take naps and my sleep schedule is fucked.
No.934073
>>934045
Yes, maou-sensei, you are very cute.
No.934127
>can't fall asleep
>if I do finally sleep I have nightmares
It is unpleasant, /a/.
No.934134
>>934127
Use less blankets and/or drink water a little before bed.
No.934189
>>934134
Is this supposed to be legitimate advise or are you mocking me?