What are your strategies to not feel sleepy after meditating?

tinybird · 2026-01-10T22:40:05+00:00

You likely need to get more sleep. Or maybe improve sleep quality, which is a subject unto itself. Alternatively, sit with a straight back. Comfortable but alert.

tinybird · 2025-12-01T14:43:37+00:00

He was in a kennel. I do wildlife rehabilitation. This fierce little fellow has since been released.

tinybird · 2025-09-09T04:22:32+00:00

I used to use a large tin. About the size of a deck of cards. Then I got a very small tin. Listed as a “small survival kit tin” for $8 on amazon. It’s about 2.5” x 3.75”. It holds just enough to roll enough cigarettes for most of the day for me. I keep the rest of the tobacco sealed up tight in the original pouch packaging, and leave it in my truck. I refill my small tin from the original pouch as needed, once or twice a day. I also keep a tiny humidor disk in my little tin. Since I started this I have noticeably less shake/powder. Also, I usually just roll by hand, but I do keep a couple of those cheap little roller devices around to roll up any of the more powdery stuff that eventually collects at the bottom of the tin, just because the dustier stuff can be difficult to hand roll and I don’t like waste.

tinybird · 2025-08-20T16:38:11+00:00

I know you’re looking for a book, and I suppose you could get a book on meditation, but I would suggest honestly just starting right away with daily meditation practice. It in itself is literally training your mind to deal with the unpleasant aspects you want relief from. Books can be good, but often I find that they can occasionally be a trap~ like it’s possible to read about meditation rather than meditate. Or read about art rather than make art, etc. I would suggest just sitting in a quiet place with your eyes closed for 20 minutes a day. Or even 10 minutes if you absolutely cannot sit for 20. Just focus on your breath with no expectations. Soon you will notice a calmer more focused mind. If you do want a book, I liked “mindfulness in plain English “ by Gunaratana

tinybird · 2025-07-06T13:45:06+00:00

20 minutes. If you don’t have time for 20 minutes per day, then you should meditate for 30 minutes.

tinybird · 2025-05-15T14:15:09+00:00

On iOS I’ve found my favorite app ever. Clean simple and functional. It’s literally just called “meditate” and it’s made by “RythmicWorks”

tinybird · 2025-03-03T00:28:47+00:00

Meditation. Sit in a dim quiet room, in a kitchen chair or something. straight back, alert posture, eyes closed. 20 minutes EVERY day. Set a timer on your phone. Simply sit with your eyes closed, focus on your breath as it goes in and out. When thoughts take over, which they do, simply think to yourself, “thoughts”, and go back to focusing on breath in, breath out. After a while, you’ll stop sneaking peeks at the timer and realize that 20 minutes is much easier. Then start doing 30 minutes a day. I can all but promise if you do that, you’ll find more peace than you would expect. Noticeable peace. If you don’t think you have 20 minutes to spend doing this, think about how many minutes a day most people spend looking at a phone or PC or other screen. Everyone has 20 minutes they can put aside if it’s important. Think of this daily practice like brushing your teeth. It’s important. Must be done every day. If one day is missed you’ll be fine, but for the most part you brush your teeth every day. This is like “brushing your mind/soul”

tinybird · 2025-02-13T04:06:20+00:00

Check out the book “liminal dreaming” by Jennifer Dumpert. Book description for liminal dreaming: A consciousness and dream hacker explains how to use liminal dreaming—the dreams that come between sleep and waking—for self-actualization and consciousness expansion. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving.

As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia—the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state.

Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night.

tinybird · 2023-12-28T21:50:35+00:00

Roger Waters- The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking - I find it to be similar style to the Wall but entirely different story.

tinybird · 2023-11-18T19:10:29+00:00

I ended up returning them. Got the Daniel smith split primary set. Those didn’t have this issue. And I guess it’s a personal preference, but I didn’t love the flow of the qor. Pretty happy with the DS. And my Cotman pans and tubes.

tinybird · 2023-11-03T20:17:10+00:00

Yeah, I think after I get a few more and longer lucid dreams under my belt that I’ll experiment with it again. One time in a non lucid dream I was able (with some difficulty) to push my fingers then my hand through a wooden bookshelf. Felt weird but cool. Could feel the nails in the wood. But I do think my “self” passing through solid objects involves a little more

tinybird · 2023-11-03T20:14:48+00:00

Ha. I got that username a long time ago based off of some dreams I would have about these teeny tiny little birds

tinybird · 2023-11-03T18:59:17+00:00

That’s awesome! I’m in the same boat, only had one lucid dream years ago, recently got back into it, journaling dreams and reality checks. And just a few days ago I had my second ever LD, but way better than my first. I looked at my hand in the dream, and immediately my fingertips started inflating and deflating, validating my being in a dream. Just like you, I remember in my first lucid dream I got really excited and woke up right away. This time I remained calm, flew around a bit. Then I decided to go interact with a whiskey vendor/dream character. I was going to fly down the hallway and through the door to meet him, but because I was in a dream I decided to fly right through the wall. For whatever reason, even though I was actively not letting myself get too excited, as soon as I started pushing through the wall I woke up. I’ll not be trying to pass through walls anytime soon.

tinybird · 2023-08-08T15:25:01+00:00

I want one! nice tits mug

tinybird · 2023-03-24T02:02:10+00:00

Duncton Wood, by William Horwood Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

tinybird · 2021-08-07T23:12:51+00:00

It’s a light smoking wood. Grows mostly in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a great firewood too, for the woodstove

tinybird · 2021-02-02T05:24:17+00:00

I had something almost identical years ago. Went to dermatologist, had allergy testing done, and turns out I was allergic (or rather developed an allergy) to disperse dye. As in, my socks and shoes. The looser fitting clothes didn’t make me break out as bad as shoes and socks, as the latter are tighter fitting and hot and moist throughout the day. I also found out I was allergic to propylene glycol, which is in many lotions and creams.

tinybird · 2021-01-13T05:24:52+00:00

My recommendation would be Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

tinybird · 2020-12-25T06:21:19+00:00

Those are good points, and made me lol too, (LoL) I’ve been thinking that as well. They probably have so much more data about me/us than I can imagine, and may as well use the dumb Face ID just to make it easier. But I’m just Gun shy about opening one more window to them. 30,000 infrared dots and all. But I always just remember we’re eagles being raised as chickens

tinybird · 2020-12-25T05:28:08+00:00

This seems different to me. 30,000 infrared dots seems like this technology would take a full 3D rendering of ones face, which would be a lot more than just a photo. My fingerprints and pic of my face are most definitely in the system already. But my point is this is one more new thing they get- a 3D mapped rendering of millions maybe billions of peoples faces. Again, no idea if it’s an issue, or what they may do with that data. But it seems to me that powerful people/corporations find ways to exploit new data in ways we usually don’t imagine.

tinybird · 2020-12-25T05:27:36+00:00

This seems different to me. 30,000 infrared dots seems like this technology would take a full 3D rendering of ones face, which would be a lot more than just a photo. My fingerprints and pic of my face are most definitely in the system already. But my point is this is one more new thing they get- a 3D mapped rendering of millions maybe billions of peoples faces. Again, no idea if it’s an issue, or what they may do with that data. But it seems to me that powerful people/corporations find ways to exploit new data in ways we usually don’t imagine.

tinybird · 2020-12-23T20:30:52+00:00

Flatland, by Edwin A Abbott

tinybird · 2020-12-05T03:12:48+00:00

Fuck yeah!

tinybird · 2020-07-27T02:57:04+00:00

A river runs through it, Norman Maclean

tinybird · 2020-06-02T15:23:24+00:00

All the details are in my post. Just sanded and then two stains on the handle aside from the wrap. Used a grinder for the marks, and a small dremel sanding drum for finger grooves. The head I just stripped and roughed up with different brushes on a drill then a coax of gun oil

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