Most people don't know this, but Salvador Dalí built his entire career on tapping into his unconscious mind on purpose.
Dalí's most famous trick was a micro-nap he called "slumber with a key." He'd sit in a heavy Spanish-style armchair, head tilted back against the leather, both arms hanging completely limp off the armrests, and in his left hand he'd hold a heavy metal key pinched lightly between his thumb and forefinger.
Directly under that hand, on the floor, he'd place an upside-down plate. He'd then let himself drift into sleep. The instant he actually fell asleep, his muscles would go slack, the key would slip out of his fingers, hit the upside-down plate, and the clang would jolt him awake.
The whole nap was meant to last less than a quarter of a second. He called that half-second window the "taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from waking," and he'd immediately sketch the hallucinations he saw in that flash.
The melting clocks, the elephants on stilts, the burning giraffes, a lot of that came straight out of those quarter-second naps. He picked the trick up from Capuchin monks and wrote it down as one of his "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship."
@KapesniP@Eyaenn no ja mam takovy udelatko, ktery sviti modre nebo cervene a nebo posila elektricky stimuly do kuze 😅 plus k tomu pouzivas kremicky a picoviny, ma to pomahat obnovovat elasticitu kuze a i jinak zlepsovat jeji kvalitu, rekneme
after a year of owning but not using a red light therapy mask that makes me look like jason from friday the 13th, I would like to report that I have been using it consistently for 6 weeks and I fear it is actually doing something.
There’s this British female fitness coach I follow on YouTube who consistently puts out excellent content. She’s helped me fix my form, introduced me to some great workouts, and she’s funny as hell, which makes it even better.
Yesterday, she posted a reel reacting to a TikTok influencer claiming that the recommended 2,000-calorie intake is a scam and that 800 calories a day is enough.
I don’t use TikTok, so I had no idea the early-2000s “heroin chic” aesthetic was making a comeback. As someone who first tried restrictive dieting in 4th grade and spent years repeating that cycle throughout my teens, I can tell you exactly where it leads: wrecked metabolic health and years of work trying to figure out how to undo the damage. My older sister developed bulimia chasing that same ultra-thin ideal.
So let me be crystal clear: DO NOT DO THIS.
Eat enough. Prioritize protein and fiber. Eat your carbs. (Yes, I did the low-carb thing too - it messes with your cycle.) And LIFT WEIGHTS!
Seriously. Stop focusing on becoming a cardio bunny. Build muscle. Preserve muscle. Protect your bone density. Future you will be grateful.
Women are disproportionately affected by age-related muscle and bone loss, yet we’ve spent decades being told to eat as little as possible and avoid lifting heavy because we might get “too muscular.” That’s nonsense.
Many millennial women now prioritize strength training and protein because we’re trying to reverse years of damage caused by those exact messages.
Anyone promoting an 800-calorie diet to a large audience is spreading dangerous misinformation that can seriously harm young women.
And one more thing: get fitness advice that is actually designed for women. You probably need 8–9 hours of sleep. You probably don’t need cold plunges. Your physiology and endocrine system is not the same as a man’s, and your health advice shouldn’t be either.
No one EVER acknowledges that fertility is seeming to "collapse" at a time when the global population is THE HIGHEST IT EVER WAS. It's literally just a slow recursion to the mean occurring after infant mortality has been factored out and mass die off events have become rare. Reproduction no longer carries an existential demand. Life becoming more certain globally generally makes the risk calculation of the child very different than it was a century ago where part of the reason to have a child was as a hedge against future uncertainty. In a society (family lineage, culture, country) which perceives its continued existence as a certainty for the foreseeable future, a child becomes a risk amplifier instead of a hedge. Nevertheless people are always partying and fucking through every catastrophe. Population contractions in the future will not be apocalyptic. But they should be expected.
It's actually ... an organic process. Some people are capitalizing on it, some people want to accelerate it, some people want to reverse it. But the correct thing to do is actually nothing. Wu wei.