#oh well it's done now

[nohoperadio]

I've never been great at sleeping, although I'm better now than I've ever been--having a full-time job that imposes a strict schedule that's the same every day doesn't solve everything, but it's 1000% more effective than any self-help type strat I've tried. That said, I'm gonna talk about just such a strat now.

I've never been someone who can fall asleep to podcasts/music/whatever, because I just end up concentrating on the thing that's playing and staying awake in order to do so. But lately I've gotten some mileage out of a strat where I play something on my phone as I go to bed but set it to switch off after 10-15 minutes. I started doing this quite spontaneously without really thinking about the purpose of it, but having now done it a good number of times I'm thinking that what it achieves is not really "making me sleepy" but actually serving as a sort of reverse snooze button.

By reverse snooze button I mean... okay so the point of a regular snooze button is that when your alarm wakes you up, it would feel too awful to go immediately from just-been-asleep to standing up and beginning the day, right? So I hit snooze and even though I'm probably not falling back asleep I know I've got this transitional phase of just lying in bed and getting used to the idea of being awake, and by the time the next alarm sounds (or the one after that but whatever) I'll hopefully be ready to get up.

And the 15 minutes of sound-stimulus solves the same problem in the other direction, because it's equally true that when I'm awake the thought of going to bed often feels aversive for a bunch of different reasons (such as being too engaged by some activity that can only be done while awake, or because sleep feels like it will take a long time to arrive tonight which is scary, or because the day has been disappointingly empty and going to bed feels like confirming once and for all that I've wasted it--that kinda thing!). On some level I don't want to go to bed, but if I have this ritual of listening to something for 15 minutes after I lie down and turn out the light, that gives me a similar buffer period that the snooze button gives me in the morning. Precisely because I know I won't be able to fall asleep while there's sound playing, that means there's no pressure to fall asleep for that duration--I can just lie there and get used to the idea that now I'm in bed, and by the time everything goes quiet and sleep becomes actually possible it will feel more natural.

[barafishtiddies]

Girldad is so cool.

[agena87]

Sorry Don, you have to subscribe (it's free!) to see Mal's posts.

[Subscribe and be amazed] (warning: full nudity)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[uinferno]

Love Under the Red Hood as a story but this always stood out to me.

Quick doodle to reacquaint myself with drawing.

[gammaraydeath]

5 more minutes.....

the semester just started for me so that means back to waking up early. ;w;

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[tacit-semantics]

Fuck it. Crochet cartilaginous stingray skeleton

[beets]

baby, bi bi bi

[pixlokita]

Wait I’m just realizing how funny it is that springtrap/ William and all his variations see an unhappy child with brown hair, brown eyes and striped shirt and immediately goes … yes I must have him as my own like 🧍‍♂️

[tainebot01]

I was working on this video when the Investigations Collection Announcement dropped, then proceeded to spiral for the next few days before finally finishing it.

[iero]

HAYLEY WILLIAMS The Eras Tour | 5/9 - 8/20

[deoidesign]

Doing master studies the only way I know how: Stealing them and making them my guys.

(Barberini Faun)

(The Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)

(Covent Garden - William Bruce Ellis Rankin)

[rosetterer]

this is exactly what happened before they jumped up...

[starrysharks]

🤒🩷💙💉

close ups:

+ inspo (literally my fav miku fig ever):

[bigfatbreak]

every time a love interest is apart of a royal family and has "gold" hair but its just normal blonde and they're just freaking blonde and considered of Noble Blood due to that feature or whatever my eyes roll clear back into my skull and I lock gazes with the hamster running circles in my head and we just Look at each other