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Rec'd on 😃 what are your nightly routines

I eat 3 hours before i sleep and with this meal i'll have a pint of water. Then i get in bed and either watch a film or listen to a record. Lately it's been a record. Then i sit and read for 2 hours with minimal phone interaction or any distractions at all actually. Just before bed i'll piss/brush teeth/wash face and then i get into bed. I listen to the 1984 audiobook on spotify to send me asleep. Been in this routine for 2 weeks and i have been lucidly dreaming for a week straight at this point. No phone and naturally tiring the brain/eyes is a magic thing for your sleep quality

@Rattlesnake

Feb 27, 2025

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@taterhole

For a brief time I would listen to the audiobook of the first game of thrones book to fall asleep and I would never get further than like five minutes through tops because I would just pass out and forget what happened. MRE Steve also puts me out like a light like immediately ASMR usually triggers irrational rage in me which probably goes to my fear and avoidance of intimacy but there’s something about those crinkling package sounds that really gets me

Feb 27, 2025

@Rattlesnake

taterhole MRE STEEEEVE. Mmmmmm pretty good. oh yeah !!!!

Feb 28, 2025

@Rattlesnake

taterhole You shouldn't have a feaer of intimacy, being loved is a precious thing

Feb 28, 2025

@taterhole

cleanteeth now let’s put that out on a tray. nice!!!! I really love how he goes on long monologues about how he has to eat these MREs just like the soldiers would in the field like he thinks he’s LARPing and then proceeds to eat some ancient expired monstrosity. The really gnarly ones do not put me to sleep though because I laugh too much. I really wonder what it’s like to be Steve sometimes I almost wonder if he ever eats anything else other than MREs because his frame of reference for what food is seems to be so off kilter sometimes. Obsessed with him clearly and his lore…

Feb 28, 2025

@taterhole

cleanteeth hmm I don’t know I guess I’ll have to see…

Feb 28, 2025

@Rattlesnake

taterhole hahahaha, he's the goat and i'm glad you love him as much as you do!

Feb 28, 2025

@taterhole

cleanteeth I believe you though. About being loved I mean not about Steve being the goat which is indisputable

Feb 28, 2025

@Rattlesnake

taterhole hahahaha

Feb 28, 2025

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