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Okay but can people actually “clear their head?” Like is that actually a thing. Because my brain is usually buzzing 1000 miles per hour with a bunch of thoughts. Idk focusing on one thought at once doesn’t seem like a real thing. I’m literally singing a song in my head and listening to a conversation in the next room while writing this.
Had a d dream but I couldn’t c tell you what it was about because it was completely in French.
All I know is that it was hilarious.
Also I do not knew French.
I haven’t been able to listen to podcasts in a while - I used to listen when I traveled and I don’t do that so much any more - but when I did, I loved Midnight Burger.
I am listening to Re: Dracula, though. Possibly because it’s more of an audio book? Brains are weird.
hey reblog and tell me what audio dramas you’re listening to and why you like them
ok so i spiralled to the extent that i needed to call my mum to talk me out of it. so that's a fun little insight into my brain. i struggle a lot with taking any minor setback as some moral failure and can be disproportionately hard on myself about it. and sometimes it takes a while to get out of that head space, although i turned it around pretty quick this time. progress! but everything i said remains True and Right and i will continue to remind myself (and you) of it ♡
the embroidery i've been working on for my sister-in-law's birthday hasn't turned out the way i'd hoped so i'm starting again and in an attempt to stop myself doom spiralling into a self-worth hell portal this is me telling myself and you if you need it that starting again is okay !!! projects not working out don't mean you've failed !!! sometimes it's hard to get things out of your head and turn them into a physical tangible thing !!! you are not wrong or bad because something didn't work the way you hoped !!! don't put so much pressure on yourself that you stop enjoying the things you enjoy !!!
rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3
Have you ever loved a character to the point your brain makes you think you are them and doing any basic task is embarrassing to the point you have to repeatedly tell yourself you’re not them?
Or is that just me.
One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!
I bet it's that walking through a door thing. When you walk through a door often it clears your mind; I gather this is evolution at work because survival demands you have all your attention ready for whatever's on the other side of the door. That's why you'll be in the kitchen and think, "I need my notebook," but the instant you go through the door to the living room where you left it, you can't remember why you left the kitchen.
Anyway, I'm guessing opening an app maybe be similar enough to opening a door that it does the same thing. The calculator and the clock are side-by-side, so it's easy to miss-tap and open the wrong one. As it opens, your mind gets cleared. And then you're staring at the calculator blinking with confusion until you piece together what your original intent was.
me staring at my calculator app for 45 seconds before i remember i was trying to open my clock app to set an alarm
tbh the worst thing about being a self aware mentally ill person is that people assume that because you understand your illness you’re automatically able to actually apply your knowledge to your life and cure yourself