BrainBlow
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Been using this one a lot for naps and sleep alike.
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RogueLynx
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LT: it's kinda incredible how much joy i've brought into my life by learning to recognise the planets in the night sky. it's not an immense amount joy but still feels kinda disproportionate. but it's cool having friends in the night sky besides the moon. cos whenever i recognise one of the planets it's literally like seeing a friend i vibe with really well. i've been observing Veuns, Jupiter and Saturn over the past few nights. it's a party and poor Mars is missing out. he's had to go out of town on business. Venus is an introvert and heads home early. Jupiter, Saturn and the moon though keep the party going through the night.
BrainBlow
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It took me like 26 years to realize that many stars I had seen were planets. And I'm still learning to recognize different ones. A star gazer app on my phone helped a lot.
Akishima
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Dude, those are great things. I've been threatening to buy a new vacuum cleaner for a while- a really expensive one, because every time I vacuum, mine literally falls apart so I have to constantly revacuum places- it still works, but it's driving me nuts. And honestly, napping is also one of the things I look forward to most these days.
Reading this was really cool. I used to stargaze as a kid, so I can usually recognize three of those four planets, but I'm not confident on Saturn. If you ever have a chance to look at Saturn through a medium power telescope and can see the rings- it's magical.
Vuh
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I envy those with the self-restraint to nap. Every time I try to take a short, one to two hour laundry nap it ends up being a "holy shit you're finally able to sleep" seven hour slumber
Of course when I actually get to sleep in on a holiday or day off my body still wakes itself up at 8am anyway. What a curse.
BrainBlow
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That's your mistake. Going more than 30-40 minutes puts you in the beginnings of REM sleep, which is proper sleep. At that point it's not a matter self-restraint, and waking up will just raise stress hormones and makr you more tired.
A good power nap doesn't last more than 20-25 minutes at most, and can be less than 10 minutes. I've adjusted mine down to set the timer at 16 minutes, which means about 5-6 minutes of dozing and 10 of sleep.
So long as you get up and start moving immediately, a powernap will be fantastically rejuvenating. Those 10-15 minutes of sleep will then often feel like an hour, and it's like getting a new lease on the day.
What's important is really testing what's good for you, where you prefer to sleep, with or without music, what state of dress you're in, exact minute count, etc.
But avoiding sleeping more than 25 minutes is almost universally a good idea.
It's also a good idea to do it before dinner, even though a classic image is to do it after.
I have never, ever, had a really restful nap after dinner. It is basically just a food coma. And napping after 18:00 could be disruptive to actual sleep at night.
What I learned that's really important is how the human body doesn't really treat sleep like a real budget. Sleeping for only six hours doesn't mean your body will require two more later.
Gens
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LT:
It's been pretty much over a month since my grandmother had a stroke, she's been discharged out of the hospital now and my dad thought it would really be for the best to take her over to a special long term care home with how crippled she was from it. The building we picked is really very nice and new, and the staff was friendly so I feel little worry about her being taken care of well here.
It's been pretty much over a month since my grandmother had a stroke, she's been discharged out of the hospital now and my dad thought it would really be for the best to take her over to a special long term care home with how crippled she was from it. The building we picked is really very nice and new, and the staff was friendly so I feel little worry about her being taken care of well here.
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RogueLynx
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i used an app too. i can identify the planets w/o it now, though i do still like to reconfirm. wouldn't have learnt to identify them had i not received direction initially from that app.
spotting Saturn was made easier by the fact that it was near Jupiter and because with the way air and light pollution are there's only a handful of stars that are visible and they're all really far apart and Saturn's brighter than all of them and doesn't twinkle. and it has it's orange-ish colour as well.
Vuh
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Man I feel you there. On one hand, it's really nice living next to a megacity. Like...really, really nice. On the other hand, I'd like to look up and see something other than airplanes, the occasional satellite, and (on really, really rare occasions) a rocket launch. From where I am I can only see Polaris, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, the Big Dipper, and Orion.
The nightglow from New York is pretty, though. Especially when you're on the NJ Turnpike late at night. It'll be 2am and the sky is just pure orange.
Claptrap
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coming in to be negative again, sorry, so if you're tired of me saying negative shit please stop reading at this point and please enjoy your day
but I guess life just seems so pointless. I've talked about this before, for sure. but it seems to me we only exist to work for big companies, waste all our time, consume media, and then die in a span of roughly 70-80 years if we're lucky. what is motivational about this? how do people keep doing it?
I guess if you don't do it, you end up homeless or die or some other thing. but how is it that so many people seem to flow ceaselessly from one day to the next? what gives people the mental fortitude to keep moving forward?
i'd say human relationships are important, but if you don't have those what are you supposed to do? shit out some kids and take your emotional issues out on them? enough of that in the world to be honest.
i'm feeling stumped these days.
coming in to be negative again, sorry, so if you're tired of me saying negative shit please stop reading at this point and please enjoy your day
but I guess life just seems so pointless. I've talked about this before, for sure. but it seems to me we only exist to work for big companies, waste all our time, consume media, and then die in a span of roughly 70-80 years if we're lucky. what is motivational about this? how do people keep doing it?
I guess if you don't do it, you end up homeless or die or some other thing. but how is it that so many people seem to flow ceaselessly from one day to the next? what gives people the mental fortitude to keep moving forward?
i'd say human relationships are important, but if you don't have those what are you supposed to do? shit out some kids and take your emotional issues out on them? enough of that in the world to be honest.
i'm feeling stumped these days.
and honestly, I've had ongoing issues I've briefly mentioned here. it's probably nothing, I don't get perturbed by this stuff super easily... but on top of all my other worries, I've been worrying I might have MS. this is probably NOT TRUE, though the fact half my body has gone numb is NOT assuring regardless of the cause... but I'm such a depressed bastard already, I'm like damn, if there's more shit on top of this what's the point? (waiting on mri + other tests)
this is without even getting into my relationship issues right now. let's just say my partnership of over 8+ years is experiencing some hiccups (and has been since december tbh), and since they're one of the only people I consider myself truly close to, it's taking a major toll.
this is without even getting into my relationship issues right now. let's just say my partnership of over 8+ years is experiencing some hiccups (and has been since december tbh), and since they're one of the only people I consider myself truly close to, it's taking a major toll.
Taek
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It's hard to let your family members be cared for by other people when you've done it for so long yourselves, but places that can give specialist care like that are almost certainly a better quality of life for both your grandmother, you, and your parents.
Yes to all of this. Between 15-20 minutes is my sweet spot, and I flip flop between lo-fi music and educational YouTube videos as my background to nap to. I also never nap in bed because it encourages me to sleep for much longer than I need, and makes me feel worse.
Also, a nap straight after a cup of coffee sounds like it shouldn't work, but actually the caffeine hasn't had enough time to hit you yet, so when you wake up from your 15 minute nap, you get the added bonus of a caffeine high to go with the rejuvenation of the nap.
RogueLynx
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managed to spot Polaris tonight, but the rest of the Little Dipper was not visible. did also manage to spot Capella, Aldebaran, the triangular part of Cepheus, and part of Cassiopeia though. Mars is unobservable for now as it's right next to the Sun. and i believe Orion was hiding behind my neighbour's house at the time.
that must be surreal.... or does one get used to it?
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Vuh
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Eh, you get used to it. The city and most of the major highways have upgraded to LED lighting, so nowadays the skyglow is mostly just regular white light. Around the port they still use old-school halogen bulbs, though, which creates the orange effect.
Though honestly I've only lived in regions without skyglow for very limited periods of time. I didn't see reasonably dark sky until I was in Oklahoma for a few months in 2015. I've still never seen a perfectly dark sky in my life, so that's on the bucket list, for sure.
Akishima
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Dude, what have you been doing? There's gotta be darkness in upstate NY. Get yourself on a little weekend camping trip. I grew up in the country, so I've seen a lot of dark sky, but even so, I'll never forget our little jaunt down to central Oregon to catch the solar eclipse in 2017. Stopped at a rock quarry in the middle of nowhere about 1 AM to wait for the sunrise and gods, it was incredible, the expanse of sky, blacker than black, and the Milky Way, looking so close you could touch it.
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Vuh
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I dunno, man, when I said "seeing a dark sky" was on my bucket list I was thinking something more...substantial? Romantic? Like the untouched wilderness in parts of the American West. Like Zion National Park in Utah or Shiprock in New Mexico. Not the abandoned mill towns in Upstate New York. I've been to Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Elmyra...like damn. Every time I go north of Westchester County it's just pure spiritual and emotional death. The living remnants of imperial decline.
LadyPsychic
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I finally got around to asking my mom for a new computer. I've decided to get a desktop this time (my previous two computers were laptops). That's because I never move my laptop around (it's always on my desk); so, mom said I might as well just get a desktop. It's going to be an all-in-one. The only thing is that while it will arrive soon, I can't open it until Christmas (because it's this year's Christmas present). That's okay, my laptop is still working for now. Hopefully it will last another two months.