looking in the internal direction of your motor plans, and writing into your pending motor plan the image of you getting out of bed in a few moments, and then letting that image get sent to motor output and happen.
I do a similar sort of thing myself sometimes, and similarly do not think it is the same as predictive processing theory, which I don’t believe in for several reasons.
I would call that “visualization”, and I’d say that it’s not hyperstition/woo because it’s not believing in a prediction, it’s forming a plan. (Except that the actually-effective way of forming a plan, the kind you’ll actually be significantly more likely to do than most “plans”, involves vividly simulating the actions you’re going to take.)
A part of this technique involves being really honest with yourself about whether you have any intention of doing the thing, and if you don’t, don’t even try to do the visualization exercise. You have to be able to feel the difference between “yeah I’m gonna do it” and “nope, don’t want to.”
So to the particular goal here, I have rarely ever seriously held an intention to be “sane”, to “cope well,” or to “avoid drama”. to the extent that I have seriously wanted to be a bit better on that axis, I succeeded. It’s not quite as simple as “anyone can do it just by wanting to”, but rather “if you don’t want to, it will definitely not happen, and at least some people, n=1, don’t particularly want to.”
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I do a similar sort of thing myself sometimes, and similarly do not think it is the same as predictive processing theory, which I don’t believe in for several reasons.
I would call that “visualization”, and I’d say that it’s not hyperstition/woo because it’s not believing in a prediction, it’s forming a plan. (Except that the actually-effective way of forming a plan, the kind you’ll actually be significantly more likely to do than most “plans”, involves vividly simulating the actions you’re going to take.)
A part of this technique involves being really honest with yourself about whether you have any intention of doing the thing, and if you don’t, don’t even try to do the visualization exercise. You have to be able to feel the difference between “yeah I’m gonna do it” and “nope, don’t want to.”
So to the particular goal here, I have rarely ever seriously held an intention to be “sane”, to “cope well,” or to “avoid drama”. to the extent that I have seriously wanted to be a bit better on that axis, I succeeded. It’s not quite as simple as “anyone can do it just by wanting to”, but rather “if you don’t want to, it will definitely not happen, and at least some people, n=1, don’t particularly want to.”