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Good news and bad news. Bad news is that I’m not good at restful sleep, but the good news is I have a very active dream life. I’ve always experienced a lot of deja vu and stuff, but the last several years have gotten weird. More and more of it has been coming back to this side of consciousness with me, and I’m becoming more capable of navigating my dreams… Anyway. It’s hard to get to sleep and harder to stay asleep. This powder is effervescent in cold or warm water, and the specific fizzy tartness triggers that pavlovian “winding down for bedtime” yawn in our home.. Magnesium tenderly tells my nervous system to be cool and let me rest, so for the first half of the night I’m resting sound asleep and when I wake up, it is not with my heart racing with anxiety, which allows me to slip back under into a dream state where I’m shaping the architecture and my autonomy from first person. I have this Oura ring which tracks my sleep— my heart rate, temperature, how many times I wake up, how much time I’m spending in REM versus deep sleep— and I’m obsessed with that. Wait make this about Oura not Magnesium. Wait make it about sleep in general. don‘t make it about dreams you ain’t ready to know about that. But yeah I’ve been putting magnesium in my water.
Jul 7, 2022
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It took a realllllllly long time for me to get on board with magnesium. I thought it was overrated. (Generally I don’t understand supplements. I’m more of a eat-the-foods-that have-the-vitamins-and-minerals-you-need type of girl.) But this magnesium is IT. First of all, you mix it with water and it fizzes which is really satisfying. Secondly, it tastes great. Like bitter, slightly stale seltzer? In a good way, I promise. Some people like to add tart cherry juice to the mixture because apparently tart cherry juice is a good source of melatonin? But not me. I like it AU NATUREL.
Jan 10, 2025
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put on a silk nightgown, fill up my bedside pitcher with water and place a glass alongside it, water-floss and brush my teeth, wash my face and moisturize, put my hair up in a ponytail with a silk scrunchie. I sleep with a heated blanket underneath my bed coverlet just to feel something. I usually wear sleep headphones that are also a blackout eye mask (I listen to rain sounds) but my dog just stole and destroyed the second one in a row so I am feeling like god doesn’t think I deserve nice things. My body wakes me up at the same exact time every morning on the dot no matter how late I stay up (which I often do) and lately it’s been 8:00 am. Sometimes if I’m feeling saucy I’ll do an evening yin yoga session
Apr 26, 2024
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anytime I’m feeling especially good, I’ve been walking. All day long I’m just going for a walk
Jan 24, 2024
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Listen to the ones you usually skip. They’ve been hitting
Jan 24, 2024
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~So I’ve gotten into taking baths. I can’t explain it but it feels more analog. I used to think of it as a more time consuming option but now I feel it’s actually more efficient. The pressure of designating time for it to be both functional and experiential leads to letting myself get bored, which brings about a clear but gentle conclusion. Boredom is a luxury. I used to think new thoughts so often out of boredom, but now it feels like I’m trying to be productive or I’ve left my body entirely, so I’ve been leaning in to get back to active boredom. There are plenty of ways to make it an experience. The only time I’ll drink ice in a drink is in a bath, because effectively you’re already a soup. So drinking la croix or gatorade on ice in the bath is a crazy experience to feel your guts being all cold and your skin being warm. A good way to get back into my body is to make it the intersection of polarizing temperatures. I also love the idea of robes but I can’t figure out when I’m meant to wear one, and the best I can tell is around bathtime. I love putting the Dr Teals Lavender salts right under the faucet because it either dissolves them or disperses them from jump as it’s filling, and then the Almond Cleansing Oil from Trader Joes is a moisturizing option for your cleansing tasks that take place as you’re brining your body in salt.
Jul 7, 2022