Life's A Chibi: Unsafe Place
Everyone minds work differently. Some can easily switch it off so they don't have to think at all. Others have trouble stopping the wheels from turning in their head. At night, when one is about to go to bed, they can easily shut off their brain and they go straight to sleep. Others have issues turning off their brain before they go to sleep, causing them to lose their night of sleep.
Troubles and hard times befall you today. One problem after another. Issues piling up. You do what you can to solve them, but some require a waiting period - you want it solved now instead of later, crossing it off your list of troubles. Throughout the day, you distract your mind. You do what you can to not think about the troubles you have. You do this until it is time for bed. But you don't want to go to bed - the place where you can relax and take it easy before passing out and ending the day. You now fear of lying down and letting your ongoing mind take over, where you have to lay there and helplessly have your mind remind you what issues you have left to resolve and the troubles you have to face the next day. You lose sleep and won't have the mental or physical endurance to deal with the problems you have to deal with.
You can try sleep remedies and techniques, such as white noise, tea, and medication. Some work more than others, but not for everyone. Turning off your mind for those who thinks like a race car is difficult. You have to try hard to get the car to stop completely. Talk to someone if you can't sleep. Make small conversations that don't involve your issues unless they are brought up. Distract your mind and have it think on something mundane before you go to sleep. The less you think about your problems and issues, the less harm you will cause your body and the less scared you will be about the only place in your house that you feel safe and secure to be at the end of the day.
"If there is a problem you can fix, why worry about it? If there is a problem you can't fix, what is the use worrying about it?" - a Buddhist Quote
artwork © 2015 Alex Cockburn
Troubles and hard times befall you today. One problem after another. Issues piling up. You do what you can to solve them, but some require a waiting period - you want it solved now instead of later, crossing it off your list of troubles. Throughout the day, you distract your mind. You do what you can to not think about the troubles you have. You do this until it is time for bed. But you don't want to go to bed - the place where you can relax and take it easy before passing out and ending the day. You now fear of lying down and letting your ongoing mind take over, where you have to lay there and helplessly have your mind remind you what issues you have left to resolve and the troubles you have to face the next day. You lose sleep and won't have the mental or physical endurance to deal with the problems you have to deal with.
You can try sleep remedies and techniques, such as white noise, tea, and medication. Some work more than others, but not for everyone. Turning off your mind for those who thinks like a race car is difficult. You have to try hard to get the car to stop completely. Talk to someone if you can't sleep. Make small conversations that don't involve your issues unless they are brought up. Distract your mind and have it think on something mundane before you go to sleep. The less you think about your problems and issues, the less harm you will cause your body and the less scared you will be about the only place in your house that you feel safe and secure to be at the end of the day.
"If there is a problem you can fix, why worry about it? If there is a problem you can't fix, what is the use worrying about it?" - a Buddhist Quote
artwork © 2015 Alex Cockburn
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He can sleep with me. I gonna protect him from bad thoughts :) *hands out Eyegrim plushies*
I just tried it today for the first time, found it rather frustating.
Also that horn they use for raiders before battle is way too loud
Also that horn they use for raiders before battle is way too loud
right now I'm really digging the floris mod even if the game chugs like crazy while fighting the Khergit Khanate and choosing anything but a warrior start is typically going to leave you with tons of frustation and anger
but somehow Yalibe had a 14000 piece of fabric and I managed to get some killer armour with it so the game's easier (playing as Swadia atm, it's nice they did put some counter measures against calvary with pikemen)
but somehow Yalibe had a 14000 piece of fabric and I managed to get some killer armour with it so the game's easier (playing as Swadia atm, it's nice they did put some counter measures against calvary with pikemen)
Yeeees! The Floris mod is probably the best mod that uses the original game. I really love Brytenwalda too. :D
Mount and blade:warband was my addiction for all of september and now it seems I'm going to be addicted to floris throughout december now too.
Though the thing I like to say about warband is... amazing superb action RPG, terrible and frustating RTS
Though the thing I like to say about warband is... amazing superb action RPG, terrible and frustating RTS
Yeeeees! I love it. :D I've put thousands of hours into Warband. Add me on Steam? Oxillious.
This is exactly what I have been feeling these past few months. You are so good at bringing emotion to life.
this is the Reason why i watchin you
its so true it happens to anyone
it shows sadness or motivates
i love your Life`s a Chibi Series
they are one of the best and most unique series on FA
please keep up the great Work
and this happnend to me too is not great when it happens
its so true it happens to anyone
it shows sadness or motivates
i love your Life`s a Chibi Series
they are one of the best and most unique series on FA
please keep up the great Work
and this happnend to me too is not great when it happens
that's every night for me sadly, so far my only solution is a lot of liqour
Well thats such a true pic....because these bad thoughs i sleeped in a week only 14h....
Thats something i wouldn't wish my biggest enemy.
Thats something i wouldn't wish my biggest enemy.
I deal with this almost every night. It's why I tend to stay in bed and not sleep until 3:00 am. T__T
This is why I tend to fall asleep with my laptop on my chest playing funny videos. XD
I know this feeling well... I believe it's called 'Busy Mind,' when your brain refuses to shut down - it's effectively stuck in high-gear. And the more you fight to sleep, the worse it gets. I had a bout once that had me up for over three days :P
Oddly enough, I find listening to Kate Baker reading from Clarkesworld helps me... I set the volume to the point that I can ~just~ hear the words... and the effort it takes to listen clears my head. I'm usually out in short order.
Oddly enough, I find listening to Kate Baker reading from Clarkesworld helps me... I set the volume to the point that I can ~just~ hear the words... and the effort it takes to listen clears my head. I'm usually out in short order.
i have this problem as well i do like the night because it seems as if the day has calmed down, but then i lay in bed having constant worry with daily problems and other things going on in my life. Having a body pillow does help, but i am restless as of late...
Oh yeah. Happens far too often for me. Only thing I found that helps somewhat: having an audio book running. Keeps me distracted until I fall asleep ^^
And more plushies in my bed than any swne person could ever need, of course XD
And more plushies in my bed than any swne person could ever need, of course XD
Oi, this was my Monday night. Ended up being a sleepless night for this lizard.
There's truth in this one, and I know it too well.
Thanks for this one.
Thanks for this one.
What once gave us comfort gives us pain. What once gave us joy gives us sorrow. What once kept the monsters away, invites them into our head.
I've been in a similar mindset when waking up in the middle of the night from a particularly disturbing nightmare.
all the feels here. I know more than a handful of people who understand what this is like.
I've been there myself, fortunately not as much anymore with the worries and doubts these days.
now i just have to wrestle with my brain and the nightmares it produces just to screw with me :P My subconscious mind can be an asshole at times :P but hey! art fuel is sometimes produced from these nightmares :P so it's not a total bust. ^^
I've been there myself, fortunately not as much anymore with the worries and doubts these days.
now i just have to wrestle with my brain and the nightmares it produces just to screw with me :P My subconscious mind can be an asshole at times :P but hey! art fuel is sometimes produced from these nightmares :P so it's not a total bust. ^^
I can relate to this most days.
The best thing I can do is to cuddle my tiger plushie and my little dog plushie from my childhood.
The best thing I can do is to cuddle my tiger plushie and my little dog plushie from my childhood.
This is always helpful to read, and to know that it's not just me going through these problems. Thank you.
(Draygone)
This is one reason why I tend to sleep on the sofa with the TV on.
This is one reason why I tend to sleep on the sofa with the TV on.
I wonder what it says about us that there are so many who feel this daily. Understood and yea i do the same.
I think about how insignificant of a person I am and how, untalented, ugly and all our backward person I am. So I stay up and look at dankmemes until my body gives out c:
nothing like those feeling after a rough day. can I give him a hug?
omg yes i have that same feeling as well. and that's why lucky for me i take my meds. to help me not feel so scared.
Trust me I know that all too well...I've had a LOT of sleepless nights this year...
My fucking life, tossing and turning and trying not to dwell on random stuff. The last few years though I've found that falling asleep with earbuds in, listening to 'ASMR', really helps quell all that. Not the shitty iphone earbuds btw, something in the $100 range with comfortable rubber suction tips.
Anyway, since I started working from home (drawing porn), my sleep hours became far less erratic and I've spent *much* less time lying in bed with my thoughts. You can see on this graph that as soon as I quite my job, my sleep hours evened out to a 26 hour long day, since I didn't have to force them to be 'normal'. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9iixp8c2.....43.14.png?dl=0 The downside is that it makes planning things tricky, but it's a small price to pay to be well rested, to not toss and turn for hours a night.
Anyway, since I started working from home (drawing porn), my sleep hours became far less erratic and I've spent *much* less time lying in bed with my thoughts. You can see on this graph that as soon as I quite my job, my sleep hours evened out to a 26 hour long day, since I didn't have to force them to be 'normal'. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9iixp8c2.....43.14.png?dl=0 The downside is that it makes planning things tricky, but it's a small price to pay to be well rested, to not toss and turn for hours a night.
Im right there with you friend, hardcore Insomnia, hence the response to your post at 630 am. But who needs sleep when you have overconfidence in your ability to work in a sleep deprived state, am I right?
This is most nights for me....
why I probalby stay up so late and numb myself on video games and Youtube.
=^.,.^=
why I probalby stay up so late and numb myself on video games and Youtube.
=^.,.^=
Awwww, I would pet such cutie foxy before sleeping and snuggle cutely, cuties should not feel fear :<
At night, I find it's a lot easier to be afraid of irrational fears and worries. with an over active imagination and nothing to focus on, it sucks when your brain thinks of a theory and then decides to run down that path of that story.
Basically I get afraid really easy at night and it sucks
Basically I get afraid really easy at night and it sucks
That's never a fun feeling nor a fun time to have; often are minds are distracted during the day by the busy nature of our lives. But at night, when it's just you and the quiet, it can feel like solitary confinement...just you and your thoughts.
Often times, I leave on my computer at night and put on a playlist from my Youtube account, just so I can focus on that, as oppose to my thoughts...
Often times, I leave on my computer at night and put on a playlist from my Youtube account, just so I can focus on that, as oppose to my thoughts...
It doesn't get any truer than that. Once again, great picture and great summary.
I haven't been able to escape these feels, and I've spent almost half of the time I've been alive crippled by them each night... ;^;
i have this in a weird way. i overthink so many things throughout the day, mistakes ive made years ago even. i get mad at myself for so many things which i still think about when i go to bed, but after some time in bed ill just pass out and sleep, to wake up to bad thoughts again
I often have anxiety attacks in bed when I'm trying to sleep. I don't know if it's caused by my actual fears or something else. It's not nice though. Sometimes I'm afraid of anxiety attacks and I don't go to bed when I should. It does help to talk to someone though. One thing I try is to sing a song in my head. Not necessarily with words, just the tune.
I'm lime this. I have trouble to sleep cause here's too much problems I have to care about. The problem ia if I don't care about them, it can ruins my entire life.
This is why I CAN NOT go to sleep without a distraction. I need tv or youtube (for creepypastas haha bedtime stories) to fall asleep or else my brain will bring out all the things that worry and bother me because I am an overthinker
I know this feeling all too well, i'm often afraid of the thoughts that haunt my dreams and it ends up prolonging my sleep as a result, affecting the rest of my day. Some days it does give me a good night's rest, but most often don't.
Yeah I'm gonna be "that" person, replying to really old art, but this makes me feel.
A couple years ago I had my slowest, scariest, mind-shattering traumatic thing go down. Sleep was never my friend but it hit me so hard with repressed AND new traumas I am afraid to even attempt to sleep in the dark.
😞 Much love for all your heartfelt sharing, attsy or othwrwise. And anyone else who wanders by.
A couple years ago I had my slowest, scariest, mind-shattering traumatic thing go down. Sleep was never my friend but it hit me so hard with repressed AND new traumas I am afraid to even attempt to sleep in the dark.
😞 Much love for all your heartfelt sharing, attsy or othwrwise. And anyone else who wanders by.
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