My entire sentient life I have been prone to nightmares, usually at least one a week. I am in my 30s now and “eh it’ll probably sort itself out” has proven an ineffective strategy.

There is obviously the kumbaya “mediate and reduce your stress” stuff but obviously I live in the real world where time that there is any useful level of executive function is pretty full.

So aside from general “wellness” stuff are there specific interventions for making sleeping brains be less garbage reliably? Missing sleep/fitfull sleep blows.

  • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not opposed to trying things but I’ve done various mindfulness type things and found them:

    • not to generate results that reenforce the practice.
    • acutely unenjoyable i.e. doing them is unpleasant.
    • time consuming once factoring in the attention switching either side.

    As a result habits are impossible to form and it’s more immediately useful to just go for a run in the time or whatever, which you can also do useful work on.

    If there are practices of meditation that suck less and are more amenable to modern life I’d be willing to try.