I need to read before bed or my head just keeps thinking in circles. something about the texture of ink on paper with a warm reading light.
In pre-21st century movies and media, we always see couples that go to bed, independently read their books, and once sleepy, clap off the lights and peacefully retire to sleep. Maybe there’s a reason this trope is so common! Maybe couples who read together, sleep together!!
Reading before bed regulates my brain and body in ways I did not know were possible. Screens are bad for you, specifically and especially before bedtime… who knew! And with a good nights sleep I have so much energy to do things, including but not limited to more reading.
Jan 23, 2025
Jan 23, 2025
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Reading a page or two before going to sleep is a great feeling, and will have you slowly make your way through your books, eventually reading more than a few pages when you find yourself compeltely engrossed.
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When you want to get cozy in bed but you’re not quite sleepy enough, let a book carry you to dream land
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It's like a decades-long habit now (it used to be analog books now it's a digital reader). Does the trick; settles my mind (I sleep like a baby most nights but never for more than 6-7 hours), keeps me engaged in something outside of work, establishes a "here's the end of the day" routine in my brain. Your mileage may vary :)
Sep 8, 2024
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if anyone here lives in portland heretic coffee co on SE 28th makes breakfast burritos grilled in a panini press and its so brilliant the perfect combo between a breakfast burrito and a panini i didnt know i needed this in my life
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all the versions are so beautiful and each add their own little thing — i knew the this mortal coil version first bc i love anything 4AD (and was recently reintroduced to it in David Lynch’s lost highway) and from the credits of the movie i learned that tim buckley wrote the original which ive been listening to a lot recently his voice is so calming. also the 070 shake version is wonderful and so like everything the song was meant to be & petrichor was my AOTY
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i just started reading the waves by Virginia Woolf and i made a playlist based on the general vibe the book gives off to me — not too specific it’s a one song flows into the next thing (not meant to be shuffled) and its meant to kind of be about slow sensory experiences
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