When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
Switch to linux
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
Switched to codeberg as well. Microsoft owns github
git.gay for the win!!
Went to try three distros (Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu) all three either failed on boot (even just in the “try” state) or really really did not like my graphics card (Battlemage).
Could I go through and start troubleshooting, tweaking settings, making sure everything is configured correctly? Yes…. But after wasting a few hours just trying to get something to boot, “it just works” with Windows looks better all the time. I’m too old to want to jailbreak and tinker with shit.
How is Battlemage. I’ve been thinking about getting a replacement for my Alchemist card. It’s mostly transcoding but it’s always nice to have backup hardware in these days.
i feel like in general there’s not usually much of a reason to upgrade after a single generation, regardless of the vendor, unless you have some very specific circumstances
yes, the b580 is good, but it’s not that good
I have a B580 and frankly it’s perfect for what I want. I run my games at 1440p and generally can get 60-90fps (depends if it supports XeSS 2). E33 was a decent benchmark and it passed just fine. I normally play slightly older games so it suits my needs.
As for transcoding, it can seriously knock it out. H.264 QSV with an RF of 22 on a 1080p stream averages 315fps. H.265 is a bit slower but still faster than realtime. It really is a transcoding powerhouse there.
All of these distros use an old ass kernel that might not support your hardware. Distros like Fedora and Arch (don’t use arch btw) use newer kernels and are more likely to support newer hardware.
If you can’t sleep. Get up. Get out of your bed for a while.
Staying awake while laying in bed often changes the association of sleep with the bed. Removing sleep conditioning effects.
Also as someone who has had insomnia since I was a child. I can tell you if I lay in bed. Unable to sleep. And Stay there. Rolling around. I won’t ever fall asleep.
But if I force myself to get up. Maybe have something to drink. Walk around a bit. Stare out the window for a bit. Then go back , I’m more likely to fall asleep.
And if I’m having really bad insomnia. I go for a walk. At this point I’m my life I can tell if it’s going to require a walk or just getting up and moving around the apartment/house for a bit.
Even a 15-20 min walk can do wonders. But I typically do 30 to 1 hour walk. It depends on how I’m feeling.
You would think exercising in the middle of the night would wake you up more. But nope.
9/10 times I go for a short walk. I get back and fall to sleep almost immediately.
It’s hard to force yourself to get up when you are exhausted and just want to sleep. But it’s do the walk or not sleep at all.
Also. Going out at 2 or 3 am on a week day is kinda of an interesting experience. Depending where you live, you might be the only person around.
It’s eirie and surreal. Subliminal spaces.
I quite like it. That also helps motivate me to do the insomnia walk. (Sometimes I ride my bike instead which is really nice as there are minimum cars. -make sure you are in light clothes and have lights and reflectors on your bike).
Yep. Doctors and randos alike will keep telling you to just try harder. Fuck that.
Read a book. Work some more on your project. Go for a run. Don’t try to sleep.
Years of reading in bed late at night while exhausted have conditioned me to associate reading with falling asleep. I don’t have insomnia much anymore, often the opposite. Any time I want to lay down and read my book before bed, I’m out like a light before I finish a single chapter. It could be a super power, but it also means it takes me months to finish a novel. Also not ideal when I occasionally need to read reports or training materials at work and get to the end and my head is on the desk and I can’t keep my eyes open.
If you can’t find a comfortable temperature when you’re sleeping under blankets, just stick one foot, and maybe part of your lower leg, out from under of the blankets. It acts like a radiator, and will release much of your excess heat.
A kid showed this to me at a childhood slumber party, and it’s been a useful tip ever since.
But then the monsters might eat my foot!
Really though: I have a visceral aversion to having my feet exposed like that. If I’m lying down or even sitting on the couch, my feet must be covered. I could have no other blankets, except on my feet.
Yeah, you have a different issue.
Nah, it’s that I would love to be able to use it as a radiator like you suggested, but I have a sensory problem with exposing my feet like that. It’s really annoying actually, because I have some chronic conditions that make me more heat sensitive now, and even though I know it would help a ton, I still can’t stand the feeling of my feet being exposed.
So, same problem, but sadly can’t use your solution.
Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack/pad that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. It isn’t cold, more like cool water that stays cool. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p
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The Snorkel is god-tier advice.
I’m not taking advice from an obvious night monster.
The real trick is to put the foot out, then pull it over the blanket so the foot’s surrounded by blanket.
From the view of creatures under the bed, all they see is the blanket.
Seriously, did night monsters write this post?!
