🧵 Sleep-wakefulness inbetween state
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:35:04 UTC No. 16438399
How can I artificially induce a state between sleep and wakefulness? Where I am dreaming but not so deeply that Im not aware that I am dreaming?
I have noticed while studying(math specifically). If I get hyper focused on what I'm studying but I'm also kind of tired and dizzy and just zone out randomly, I might enter a state of near-sleep where I start to dream(but I know I'm dreaming). In that state of near sleep I reflect about what I'm studying in the form of a dream. Sometimes I might drift into something unrelated(like a fat ass grinding on my dick) that was significant to me recently, but somehow my brain just uses it as an analogy to understand what I'm studying(the angle of my dick to the ass and how it changes as the ass grinds on me becomes a problem to solve) on autopilot without me really having to guide him. It's like a deep dream-meditation or a how people describe a psychedelic drug trip(but sober).
Then when I leave the state of near-sleep I understand what I'm studying much better, and formed connections I hadn't noticed before.
It's like that state of near sleep is much faster at problem solving and much more intelligent, but in a way that calls onto the abstract-creative part of my brain rather than the purely logical. It makes a huge difference even if it only lasted 15 minutes.
The same happens to me when programming. If all the variables of hyperfocus+kind of tired+very interested are there, I start to zone out at times and enter near sleep dream states where I am essentially better at find patterns, solutions, being creative and at learning.
Because of this I have stopped taking stimulants because stimulants make this impossible. I have to let my hyperfocus come naturally and to be lacking a bit in wakefulness, while relaxed. Stims make me too wakeful and attentive(in the acute stress kind of sense rather than the relaxed sense like say L-theanine does).
How can I artificially induce it more often?
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:47:21 UTC No. 16438422
>>16438399
it's called lucid dreaming and there's tons of books and shit about how to do it.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:04:37 UTC No. 16438453
>>16438399
Thomas Edison used to take naps with a ball in his hands. If he fell asleep the ball would fall and wake up him. His goal was to enter that "state" between wakefulness and sleep to be more creative and intelligent, especially if he was stuck on a problem.
In general Edison took A LOT of (short) naps to enhance himself.
Edison also had ADHD so if you have malformations in your frontal lobe or dysfunctions in the fronto-striatal network in your brain this is even more effective because while you may be a disabled lazy retard you probably do have skills for divergent thinking, conceptual expansion, and overcoming knowledge constraints, and sleep helps you power into that even better.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:31:35 UTC No. 16438680
>>16438399
Opioids but it's neither pleasant or useful if you're high IQ due to slowing you down and fogging you up. They're only euphoriants if you're low IQ by the way.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:02:07 UTC No. 16439287
>>16438399
You don't want to do that but why do you ask?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 08:37:28 UTC No. 16439410
try yoga nidra between your blocks of work
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:05:27 UTC No. 16439595
>>16438399
Isolation tanks do this.
As for other techniques, don’t use any of the lucid dreaming techniques people talk about.
Basically you need to change your thoughts from being verbal/conceptual to being visual, you also need to let what you imagine remain vague and confused and refrain from following any one line of thought, instead just let one image morph into the other in the loosest way possible. It can also be helpful to short circuit your verbal thoughts by replacing it with a stream of gibberish/clamor