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Insónias versão MMMMCXL

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Às vezes penso que é suposto termos problemas e andarmos sempre em stress por algum motivo, resolve-se um problema e menos de 24 horas depois ressurge um velho para nos impedir o sono.
Desta vez nem a bela da ajuda farmacêutica parece ajudar, antes de ir para a cama pensei tomo dois que assim o sono é garantido, ora pois….diz que não.
Roda-se na cama, analisam-se todos os prós e os contras, fazem-se as habituais listas e tentam-se resolver problemas. Mas porque é que o não conseguimos fazer a horas normais? Horas diurnas diga-se de passagem.
Pior é quando percebemos que a solução para os dois problemas é a mesma, e por muito que nos custe e que custa pois mexe com a base moral do nosso ser, é a única maneira de conseguir encontrar soluções e conseguir reconstruir o caminho.
Afinal de contas quem não gosta de ouvir frases bonitas? Quem não caça com cão, caça com gato diz o ditado popular…. Parece que eu e a Nikas vamos à caça, contrariadas mas lá teremos que ir.

Insónias III

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foto: in Fleur du Mall

Segundo a wikipédia assim aparece o termo “counting sheeps”:

“Counting sheep is a mental exercise used in some European cultures as a means of lulling oneself to sleep. It most likely arose from Yan Tan Tethera, a traditional numbering system used by some northern English shepherds to count their flocks.[citation needed]

In most depictions of the activity, the practitioner envisions an endless series of identical white sheep jumping over a fence, while counting the number that do so. The idea, presumably, is to induce boredom while occupying the mind with something simple, repetitive, and rhythmic, all of which are known to help humans sleep.

Although the practice is largely a stereotype, and rarely used as a solution for insomnia, it has been so commonly referenced by cartoons, comic strips, and other mass media, that it has become deeply engrained into popular culture‘s notion of sleep. The term “counting sheep” has entered the English language as an idiomatic term for insomnia. Sheep themselves have become associated with sleep, or lack thereof. For example, an ad campaign of the Serta mattress company features the Serta Counting Sheep, a flock of animated sheep with numbers on them who resent the said company’s mattresses for supposedly rendering their services unnecessary.

According to an experiment conducted by researchers at Oxford University, counting sheep is actually an inferior means of inducing sleep. Subjects who instead imagined “a beach or a waterfall” were forced to expend more mental energy, and fell asleep faster than those asked to simply count sheep. Sleep, by the same token, could be achieved by any number of complex activities that expend mental energy.”