An off-label use of fluoxetine (Prozac) is that it can caused prolonged sleep, possibly by reducing anxiety in ways that make it easier to stay asleep longer but specific mechanism of action is unknown. Worked well for me in treating narcolepsy-related sleep depravation, i.e allowed me to stay asleep 10 hours a night so I got enough sleep to avoid sleep attacks during the day. I’m no longer on it and still able to get enough sleep; my theory there is that regular meditation replaced the need for a drug to produce the same effect, allowing me to stay asleep longer.
I remember reading somewhere that meditation has been shown to reduce the need for sleep but was skeptical. If there’s any literature on this that you consider trustworthy, please share!
I don’t have any literature on it, but it has had that effect on me. That is, as long as I’m meditating regularly (I average about 45 minutes a day of “serious” meditation, and another 60 minutes or so of “casual” meditation) I find if I don’t get a full 10 hours I still often won’t have sleep attacks (in fact I now normally only sleep about 8 hours most nights) and I can sleep as little as 6 hours and still function mostly normally (but not doing that repeatedly, and I will almost certain have a sleep attack on those days).
Thanks for the feedback. I would like to confirm that if meditation is something that is not directly applicable, and also that meditation is far more effective, I do not have a reason to feel particularly guilty about it. I feel that I would like meditation if I had more than 60% of my meditation experience when it were described and accepted, so it would be a good exercise to spend my life practicing with that knowledge.
Another reason for not seeking it is that I expect it to make me happy when I do not experience it. But I also want to have it. I have a lot of emotions. If I have a good feeling that I am happy, I feel happy. If I have a good feeling that I am unhappy, I feel unhappy as well. If I have a good feeling that I am unhappy, I feel unhappy as well. If I have a better feeling that I am unhappy, then I feel happy.
It could also help me change my state of mind in ways that I don’t expect to work out. I feel that it would help me change my state of mind in ways you don’t expect to work out. It might just be that I do not actually feel happy, but it also helps that it is not the case that both of those feelings are causing me to experience negative emotion.
I also feel that there’s too much stuff on this website trying to justify that sort of thing as “bad feelings.” I am not sure what you mean with that phrase. For example, you might mean “That thing is a bad experience in itself, and I have nothing to negative it.”
I don’t have a problem with the suggestion that you could be having negative emotions if you were to experience negative emotions, but I would also like to learn a little about how you can make them happen and what it is and that you generally encourage as your emotional states are a result. And I think that there are a few different criteria you could use to try and overcome negative emotions:
How emotionally powerful is the emotion/sadness factor? If you really want to make yourself feel that it’s bad, you might have to be willing to “trick” your emotions to keep turning into negative emotion. The thing is, you cannot get through without negative emotions, especially if you start feeling guilty about it.
How emotionally powerful is the emotion/sadness factor? If the emotion/sadness factor is way below zero, then it might be
An off-label use of fluoxetine (Prozac) is that it can caused prolonged sleep, possibly by reducing anxiety in ways that make it easier to stay asleep longer but specific mechanism of action is unknown. Worked well for me in treating narcolepsy-related sleep depravation, i.e allowed me to stay asleep 10 hours a night so I got enough sleep to avoid sleep attacks during the day. I’m no longer on it and still able to get enough sleep; my theory there is that regular meditation replaced the need for a drug to produce the same effect, allowing me to stay asleep longer.
I remember reading somewhere that meditation has been shown to reduce the need for sleep but was skeptical. If there’s any literature on this that you consider trustworthy, please share!
I don’t have any literature on it, but it has had that effect on me. That is, as long as I’m meditating regularly (I average about 45 minutes a day of “serious” meditation, and another 60 minutes or so of “casual” meditation) I find if I don’t get a full 10 hours I still often won’t have sleep attacks (in fact I now normally only sleep about 8 hours most nights) and I can sleep as little as 6 hours and still function mostly normally (but not doing that repeatedly, and I will almost certain have a sleep attack on those days).
Thanks for the feedback. I would like to confirm that if meditation is something that is not directly applicable, and also that meditation is far more effective, I do not have a reason to feel particularly guilty about it. I feel that I would like meditation if I had more than 60% of my meditation experience when it were described and accepted, so it would be a good exercise to spend my life practicing with that knowledge.
Another reason for not seeking it is that I expect it to make me happy when I do not experience it. But I also want to have it. I have a lot of emotions. If I have a good feeling that I am happy, I feel happy. If I have a good feeling that I am unhappy, I feel unhappy as well. If I have a good feeling that I am unhappy, I feel unhappy as well. If I have a better feeling that I am unhappy, then I feel happy.
It could also help me change my state of mind in ways that I don’t expect to work out. I feel that it would help me change my state of mind in ways you don’t expect to work out. It might just be that I do not actually feel happy, but it also helps that it is not the case that both of those feelings are causing me to experience negative emotion.
I also feel that there’s too much stuff on this website trying to justify that sort of thing as “bad feelings.” I am not sure what you mean with that phrase. For example, you might mean “That thing is a bad experience in itself, and I have nothing to negative it.”
I don’t have a problem with the suggestion that you could be having negative emotions if you were to experience negative emotions, but I would also like to learn a little about how you can make them happen and what it is and that you generally encourage as your emotional states are a result. And I think that there are a few different criteria you could use to try and overcome negative emotions:
How emotionally powerful is the emotion/sadness factor? If you really want to make yourself feel that it’s bad, you might have to be willing to “trick” your emotions to keep turning into negative emotion. The thing is, you cannot get through without negative emotions, especially if you start feeling guilty about it.
How emotionally powerful is the emotion/sadness factor? If the emotion/sadness factor is way below zero, then it might be
I think the whole point is that it’s a better thought experiment, but if you can’t have it yourself I’d find it very difficult.