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doing bad things is good for your mental health sometimes. I think. idkÂ
Apr 16, 2025
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Being able to do "bad" things without spiralling about it is sooo important for mental health tbh
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This is my personal variation on the more famous ânothing good happens after midnightââbecause Iâve had great times after midnight, just not always when by myself in bed lying awake with my OCD and anxiety lol. This mantra helps me acknowledge my thoughts and feelings without spiraling about âfixingâ what feel like problems when Iâm 1000% exhausted and just need to go to sleep.
Apr 18, 2025
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sometimes the only time I get 2 hang out with myself is at 3am
honestly I wish it was always nightime i feel so much more comfortable
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insomnia will take you to new heights
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you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap.
I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool.
I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is.
I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
Apr 14, 2025
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so when I was a kid I tried to lucid dream and (in my experience) it's really easy to practice and achieve intentionally. but I had my first one in years, first time unintentionally, the other night and it was med induced x~x there's pros and cons to it.
so first of all, my first experiences... I've never had a lot of dreams in general, but I started keeping a dream journal and it instantly made them skyrocket in vividness. and at the time it was really appalling because it was really a lot, and felt exhausting mentally. but I recently found out I don't go into "deep sleep" as much as I should and bounce between light and REM sleep more. so if you sleep "typically" it probably won't be as jarring. but I do wonder if it affects your deep sleep state. but anyway, I woke up exhausted everyday and just barely reached lucidity. and at that point the pros outweighed the cons. so be warned it could be taxing if your body isn't naturally leaning into it.
but I accidentally achieved lucid dreaming the other day, after med changes have been giving me more dreams without journaling or any kind of pre-bed practice. and it was surprisingly great - I slept really well through it and woke up rested. but the entire time I felt like I could control where I went in my dream, what I was doing, recalling events - even having dreams of different memories. it was just really trippy.
my current working theory is that I was going too fast with my previous attempt. when it happened on accident, my mind was already used to dreaming regularly, and eased into it by itself. so it is possible to "force", but you likely won't need to. I recommend maybe just thinking about lucid dreaming in a positive light as you're dosing off to increase the chances of it happening. I think if you're also prone to nightmares that it might be best to not try to train yourself into lucid dreaming, that might've been part of the reason my super vivid younger dreams were too intense, even though they weren't nightmares.
it's not really super wild though like people say, at least for me. like it's not really creative mode in your dreams. maybe if you train your brain to get that way but idk. sleep is really important to get the rest of your day on track and if there's too much REM it could get annoying! so maybe approach it like a cool thing that can happen but more of a circumstance than something you need to work hard to achieve each night, unless that's fun for you.
but I am not a sleep doctor I'm just some guy
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