“I am guarded from recurring nightmares.” It’s always fun when your symptoms get so bad you realise you need to make a sigil.
A spell to remember your dreams
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do you ever lay in a position so uncomfortable you can actually feel it damaging your body but ur too lazy to move
Especially when you’re in and out of sleep
PLEASE STOP GLORIFYING ALL-NIGHTERS. STOP MAKING "I WAS UP ALL NIGHT" AN ACHIEVEMENT. SLEEP IS IMPORTANT (ESPECIALLY FOR STUDENTS)! SLEEP, PEOPLE!
Even if it’s not a full 8-hour cycle, please sleep.
i havent slept in three years and im fine fuck this post
Sleep is important!: cancer, pisces, capricorn, sagittarius, leo, taurus, libra
i haven’t slept in three years: aries, aquarius, scorpio, virgo, gemini
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Stephi
6 Cute Ways to Make a Sleep Circle
We love sleep circles. They are great for enhancing dreaming, allowing deeper sleep and warding away bad energy and bad dreams when you’re in a vulnerable state. What we don’t love is surrounding the bed with salt circles or incense ash and getting it in the carpet. Pass.
So here are some ways to make a protective and dream-enhancing sleep circle – without all the mess.
1. Enchant a cute string of lights. Nothing chases away darkness faster than light, so why not put these to use? Weave pieces of thread around the cords in colors that match your desired effect. This is a particularly great option for college witches in dorms.
2. Make your own canopy or buy one and charge it for your intent. This is potentially thicker magical barrier because you can have it completely cover you while you sleep. Stitch in sigils you’ve made into the fabric for your desired effect.
3. Make a chandelier to hang above your bed like ones here and here. Use colored fabric that corresponds with your intent, or hang crystals with your desired associations. Moonstone, amethyst, and clear quartz would be ideal for this kind of fixture.
4. Or make a mobile. Make a simple crystal mobile like the one in this video. Press and dry flowers and herbs of your intent to make the one here. Are you a sea witch with extra shells? Make a fixture like this for protection. The possibilities are endless.
5. Hang some plants associated with protection around your bedroom. A cute DIY for this can be found here. As desert witches, we are partial to hanging little cacti in our planters for their protective abilities. You could also dry your herbs around your bedroom for the same effect.
🌿Herbs to use in Sleep Magic🌿
Anise - Used to help ward off the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulate psychic ability. Fill a sleep pillow with anise seed to prevent disturbing dreams.
Bay Leaf - Protection, good fortune, success, purification, strength, healing and psychic powers. Place under the pillow (or use in dream pillow) to induce prophetic dreams.
Bergamot - Money, prosperity, protection from evil and illness, improving memory, stopping interference, and promoting restful sleep.
Catnip - Provides protection while sleeping. Grow near the home or hang over the door to attract good spirits and luck.
Celery Seed - Mental and psychic powers, concentration. Use in sleep pillow to induce sleep. Chew celery seed to aid in concentration.
Chamomile - Love, healing, and reducing stress. Burn as incense for de-stressing, meditation, and restful sleep.
Hops - Believed to increase the restfulness & serenity of sleep. Also used for healing rituals, sachets, and incense.
Jasmine - Use in dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas. Also good for charging quartz crystals.
Lavender - Magickal uses include love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace. Promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and bath spells. Burn the flowers to induce sleep and rest, then scatter the ashes around the home to bring peace and harmony.
Marigold - Place above the bed or in dream pillows for prophetic dreams. Scatter under the bed for protection while sleeping. Peppermint - Use to increase the vibrations of a space or in spells and incense for healing & purification. Place in sleep pillow to ensure peaceful sleep and bring about prophetic dreams. Use to anoint furnishings and household objects. Burn in a new home to clear out sickness and negative energy. Use in magickal workings to provide the push needed to bring change to one’s life. Carry with other herbs to boost love & abundance wishes.
Poppy Seeds - Pleasure, heightened awareness, love, luck, invisibility. A popular ingredient in food magick. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with poppy seeds to bring relief from insomnia.
Thyme - Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others. Wear a sprig to ward off unbearable grief or provide strength and courage when needed. Burn or hang in the home for banishing, purification, and to attract good health for all occupants. Use in cleansing baths prior to working candle magick. Use in dream pillows to ward off nightmares and ensure restful sleep. Add a thyme infusion to the bath regularly to ensure a constant flow of money. Place in a jar and keep in the home or at work for good luck.
Violet - Calms the nerves, draws prophetic dreams and visions, stimulates creativity, and promotes peace & tranquility. Violet leaf provides protection from all evil. Violet crowns are said to cure headaches and bring sleep. Keep a spray of violets on the altar to enhance night magick. Wear the leaves in a green sachet to help heal wounds and prevent evil spirits from making the wounds worse.
different kinds of tired:
1. all day at the beach sleepy. warm skin. wet hair. salt and sand and green apple-scented shampoo. bed sheet tides pulling up and down stomach flips into mermaid dreams.
2. milky tired. early nights. wondering if you are getting sick. medicine light bones. eyelids melting closed. dizzy, dizzy, spinning into sleep.
3. drowsy car rides. soft radio buzz. pillow on the window. pulling on your seatbelt. waking up and not knowing where you are.
ain’t never been to work huh
You're right, how could OP have forgotten to romanticize the bone-aching fatigue that makes breathing feel like effort, too tired to cook but desperately in need of nourishment, wanting more than anything to sleep but staying up just a little longer so your day wasn't completely stolen, and finally collapsing into a slumber so leaden you don't dream but you still wake up needing more rest
I wonder why that wasn't part of what OP was celebrating. Who's to say.
Me: Well, it's 3am, I'd better close my laptop and get some sleep Me: *closes laptop* Me: *immediately opens tumblr on my phone* 45 minutes later: Fuck.
thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit
but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better
it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better
…i did not know this, thank you
If anyone wants to look it up, the episode was specifically the Deadliest Catch crossover ep, and the myth was that it’s better/safer when working a 30 hour shift to take a 20 minute nap every six hours rather than try to power through. They did an obstacle course test, one without naps and one with, and even though they couldn’t even sleep half the time the naps resulted in their scores doubling.
So actually I undersold it, even if it’s 7:40 and your alarm goes off at 8 just lie down and shut your eyes and it will still be better than nothing
bless you i wish i had known this in college, but oh well
why must my creative juices flow at ridiculous hours
Shout out to people with persistent nightmares, night terrors, insomnia, sleep apnea, disorders that disrupt slumber, and any other condition that makes sleeping difficult. You know the true meaning of being tired, and you deserve a good night’s rest.
So, update on the melatonin experiment: I didn't take it last night as an attempt to control nightmares at the risk of not getting enough sleep. It was really hard to go to sleep the first time and so hard I almost gave up when I tried to go back to sleep early this morning. But even though I sort of half remember some weird dreams, my sleep was undisturbed by nightmares, so definitely a win there. I don't feel as rested as I did after a good night on the melatonin, but I do feel considerably better than I did after a nightmare night, so I'm calling it a win for now.
If anyone wants to message me feel free to do so. It might be a long night for me. I’ve been taking melatonin for a while to help me fall asleep and go back to sleep after interruptions (the cat needing food, Opal getting up for work, roommate closing doors loudly, etc), but one of the downsides is it makes it a lot harder to snap out of nightmares. When I have good dreams they’ve been more vivid and I can sink back in if they get interrupted, which is awesome, but lately I’ve been having a hard time getting out of bad dreams, and it fucked with my day pretty severely. So I’m foregoing the melatonin for now. Hopefully that will get rid of the nightmares, or at least make them more manageable, but in the meantime I’m a little worried my insomnia will come back. Fingers crossed that I’ll get some sleep!