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[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.

Here are 13 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of:

1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated nervous system).

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

A month before her passing in 2017, Louise L. Hay wrote something that still resonates deeply:

“I’ll be turning 90 this Saturday. My younger years were filled with fear, but now my days are filled with trust and confidence.

My life didn’t really start to make sense until my mid-40s. At 50, I began writing—on a very small scale. My first year, I earned just \$42. At 55, I ventured into the world of computers, which terrified me, but I took classes and overcame my fears.

Today, I own three computers and travel everywhere with my iPad and iPhone. At 60, I planted my first garden. Around that time, I joined kids’ art classes and started painting. In my 70s and 80s, I became even more creative, and my life just kept getting richer and more fulfilling.

I still write, give talks, and teach by example. I’m always reading, learning, and growing. I run a successful publishing company and two nonprofits. I’m an avid organic gardener and grow most of my own food. I love people and parties, have many loving friends, and have traveled the world. I still paint and take classes. My life has become a treasure trove of experiences.

I want to encourage you to consciously shape your later years and realize that they can be the most rewarding chapter of your life. Your future is always bright, no matter your age. Let these years become your treasure years.

With love,
Louise Hay

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[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@JessieB1021 @jnsulz @xsolddtt The US is not the center of the world. I'm American, by the way. Other countries exist. Twitter (I'm not calling it x) is not an app for Americans only. People from all over the world use Twitter.

[Helen @anomalie_blue]

Socially smart people often won’t tell you to your face when they disagree with you because they can sense intuitively that you are too attached to the outcome of the interaction and that you couldn’t handle disagreement. So they will just agree with you… but then you might not hear from them again.

It’s easy to assume this is “fake” when really it’s just what intelligent people do to protect their energy. If you went around saying what you really thought all of the time you’d make way too many enemies, and get in way too many unproductive arguments (cortisol spikes = aging)

Of course the only way to make genuine connections is to say what you really think… but especially if you intend to be deeply involved in society, you must train your intuition to know who can take it.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@obamastannn @tempstat @DitoRox @NissanAltima999 @drlcartman @TSA @marychastain It never went from a normal hydrant to a small one because they said part of the hydrant.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@obamastannn @tempstat @DitoRox @NissanAltima999 @drlcartman @TSA @marychastain The original tweet and the person you're replying to are talking about PART of a hydrant. Not the whole thing! Just a part for it. You need to learn how to read.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@BrevinAinslie24 @tempstat @DitoRox @NissanAltima999 @drlcartman @TSA @marychastain That doesn't help when you still have to travel for work. You're suggesting they pay for a flight and pay to ship it? Nobody is getting on a plane to take part of a fire hydrant across the country. They would just ship it unless their presence was also required.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@ZahirTheMexican @BATB0NEZ One existing doesn’t magically erase the clinical reality of the other.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@ZahirTheMexican @BATB0NEZ trend.' They have some of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. Educate yourself on basic clinical psychology before lurking on threads you don't understand. Starvation caused by war/poverty and starvation caused by a severe mental illness are both deadly tragedies.

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@OthellMartell @KellyMayna501 @TMZ Most people do know

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your messy room shows up in your spit. In a UCLA study, women who described their homes with words like messy and chaotic had a flatter cortisol curve all day, the stress-hormone pattern doctors link to worse health. So the joke lands, but only halfway. A clean room will not fix your life. The mess, though, was quietly taxing your body, and clearing it changes something you can measure.

Three things happen when you tidy up. First, you take back control. Anxiety is your brain telling you that things are out of your hands, and a clean floor is one corner of the world you just put back in order. Second, finishing the task releases dopamine, the brain's reward chemical, the small jolt you get when you cross something off your list. Third, and this is the one that matters most, your brain logs it as progress.

A Harvard team led by Teresa Amabile read through roughly 12,000 daily diary entries from 238 workers across seven companies. The single biggest driver of motivation on any given day was the feeling of making progress, even a tiny one. It ranked higher than raises or big wins. A clean room is a small win, so your brain counts it as moving forward. The feeling is honest.

Charles Duhigg, who wrote The Power of Habit, calls making your bed a keystone habit. People who do it tend to be more productive, happier day to day, and better with money. But the bed does not cause any of that. The link is just correlation. The bed is just the first domino. The rest of the chain only falls if that small win pushes you toward the harder stuff, the call you keep avoiding, the work you keep pushing to tomorrow.

That is the trap the tweet is pointing at. Therapists who treat anxiety draw a clean line: cleaning by choice builds a sense of mastery, while cleaning on an anxious urge is often a way to avoid something you do not want to face. The same tidy room can be the start of momentum or a very convincing way to feel productive while nothing underneath actually changes. The room is proof you can put one thing in order today. Whether that becomes your whole life is the part no amount of folded laundry decides for you.

[꩜ @faeslily]

this a great advice

[strawberry_whore @CalsStrawberry]

@ZahirTheMexican @BATB0NEZ Get the fuck off an edtwt post. What you need to understand is EDs are a mental illness. You're trying to reason with a disorder that can't be reasoned with.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You can die in a dream and not wake up. A Harvard Medical School psychologist found that when people die in their dreams, over half of those dreams continue into an afterlife sequence. The brain keeps going. You just stay asleep.

In a 1989 study in the Journal of Death and Dying, Deirdre Barrett at Harvard collected accounts from healthy young adults who had died in their dreams. The results surprised her. Most dream deaths were pleasant. More than half continued into a full afterlife sequence: floating, moving through familiar places, encountering people. The dreamer just kept sleeping.

When you do wake up from a dying dream, the brain is treating the threat as real. During REM sleep (the dream stage), your body lives the scenario. Your amygdala (the brain's alarm system) fires. Stress hormones flood your bloodstream, preparing your body to run or fight. Your heart rate spikes. A bad enough threat response wakes you up. The trigger is simple: the brain just has to believe you are about to die right now. Same mechanism that wakes you if you hear your front door break at 3am.

Antti Revonsuo, a Finnish cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Turku, mapped this in 2000 and called it the Threat Simulation Theory. Dreaming evolved to rehearse danger. For hundreds of thousands of years in hazardous environments, running threat scenarios during sleep helped early humans survive. The brain cannot tell the difference between a predator in a dream and the real thing. It detects danger and fires.

In 2023, researchers at the University of Michigan monitored four comatose patients with EEG (devices that read the brain's electrical signals) as they died. In two of them, after the heart stopped, the brain produced a sharp surge of gamma waves, the highest-frequency brain activity we can measure. These surges appeared in the region linked to dreaming, visual hallucinations, and out-of-body experiences. Lead researcher Jimo Borjigin called it "crazy high." Her team described the findings as evidence of "conscious-like activity in the dying brain."

A 2026 paper in Frontiers in Psychology extended this into the Dying-Moment Dream Hypothesis: the afterlife experiences billions of people have reported may be the brain's final simulation, built from a lifetime of memories and packed into the last seconds of awareness.

Based on current evidence, your brain goes vivid when the heart stops. The last simulation may be the most intense one you have ever run.