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Ancient Storyteller

@blanska / blanska.tumblr.com

Blanska | Aro/ace | Non-binary | I like they/them pronouns, they're nice. | Hungary | Kinda pagan :D --- I reblog Dragon Age, fantasy stuff, pretty things, funny things, sometimes pictures of nature and other kinds of randomness. --- Picture of Samahl was made by sunshinemage.tumblr.com ^^

One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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do you know that i think of this post every time i can’t sleep op. what mythbusters did for you, you have done for a great many others. 

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So we've been having a bit of a debate in the office because we wanted to do the headline "Local man gives up sugar for 12 minutes" but then overdoing the "local man" trope is a bit male-centric, so we considered "Local woman" but then that sounds like we're typecasting women so that wasn't great either, but I think we've finally found a worthy compromise:

Shane and Ryan are like Sherlock and Watson but instead of helping investigate Shane keeps proving Ryan wrong and therefore they don't solve any hauntings they just kinda chill