• AlgeriaWorblebot@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    When I’m in the zone, my heart rate slows, as do my breathing rate and rate of blinking. I forget about hunger, thirst, sleep, toilet, and all other problems. The only thing in the world is the thing I’m working on. Time passes unnoticed. Afterwards it all comes crashing back.

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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      Flow. I’ve experienced and seek that dragon everytime I code. Only tuning down the voices, numbers messages and extern noise cam achieve it. Also playing techno without lirics and hiding my phone from sigh.
      Most of my very productive work is this state, where I’m absolutely sure of where I’m going and just need extra hands to type.

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    10 months ago

    Not hard enough because the TV remote has never so much as shimmied in my direction from the other end of the couch, no matter how hard I try.

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        10 months ago

        “Can we do useful things today?”

        Brain: “haha…no. we’re going to spend 8 hours straight learning this game engine”

        “That’s actually kinda usef–”

        Brain: “…and then never touch it again”

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          10 months ago

          Having ADHD is a bit like every interaction with your brain reading like the “Anakin trolling Padme” meme

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    10 months ago

    Well, if you evaporate orange juice to a damp goo, then compress it in a hydraulic press, then…

    Fuck if I know, I forgot what we were talking about. 🤷‍♂️

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    10 months ago

    It depends.

    On a good day with a decent amount of sleep, good food (not too light and not too heavy) and interesting tasks, I find that I can dive my head pretty deep into concentration and really filter out the world around me.

    Doing this takes a lot from me, so it usually only lasts up to around an hour before I need a good break.

    But most days, I don’t end up concentrating that hard.

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    10 months ago

    I have extensive practice in straining to force myself to concentrate. Much like moving one’s bowels, pushing hard doesn’t necessarily result in better output.

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    I’ve leaned to put myself to sleep by concentrating really hard on relaxing and blocking out other thoughts. I take 5 breaths focused on 'am i comfortable? - good position, pillow just right, temp ok; then i take 3 breaths focused on relaxing each body part starting with my foot- feeling it sink into the bed, working hard to not let other thoughts creep in. I’ve never made it to my head.