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[Cara Canellas]

Doesanyone else have issues with going to sleep after playing chess. I have only been playing a few weeks properly, but find that all I can think about is the last game, or random positions just work their way into my head, and I move the pieces

I have the reverse problem... no, not falling asleep at the board... I will go to sleep just fine, but will suddenly snap awake at 3:30 AM or so with a perfect mental image of the correct move to make in an on-going (3 days per move) online game.

It wouldn't be nearly so exasperating if it turned out to be just a stupid hallucination, but no... it really is the move that I've been hunting for. I found a winning Rook sacrifice in an endgame that way (the Rook that got sacrificed was my last piece, giving me a winning King-and-passed-Pawns vs Rook ending).

Let's say I've had this plague over me for the past 15 years of my life(which would be more than 75%) and not necessarily with just chess... I would always be thinking about something. I haven't found much of an answer besides 2 "cheats". One is to take a pill... not exactly "good" for your health and slightly abusive, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do (sleep). The second solution I have is to try and blank my mind (which almost never happens) so I just let my mind run with it until I can force myself to stop. Then I blank my brain (so I see black) and it'll happen. It may be more beneficial to stop playing chess right before going to bed (take a shower, do other things etc.) and go to bed earlier so if you suffer from insomnia or aren't used to the lack of sleep, you'll still get enough.

btw "tetris effect" is a great ps4 game. it really brings an incredible, immersive environment on top of tetris. i was just imagining how great it would be if they had a chess version of that game probably wouldnt be good for OP's sleep habits.

Oh man, I get this every time. I stopped playing chess before bed now because it wakes up my brain and it's so hard to sleep after then I get nightmares of bishop sacrifices on h6 or h7 lol. What I do now is I learn some lines on chessable before sleeping and it bores me to death, I fall asleep like a baby hehe

I continually "play Tetris" with my freezer box...I try to put my rectangular boxed food in one compartment and bags in another, but sometimes I need to "mix" them up....My on going goal is to leave as little space as possible...

Chess has improved my sleep tremendously. For tetris I used to have that tetris effect but then having played tons of "tetris the grandmaster series" (highly recommended and now available on switch) made the issue vanish for some reason and today I don't jave this anymore...

Aaron Rodgers: I just needed to, to get the opportunity to reset. And, and as it got closer and closer, obviously there was a lot of other questions about my future that, uh, have been, you know, on the mind and been contemplated and I knew it'd be a good opportunity to kind of sit with those things

Peter: Going into the darkness, Rodgers said he was 90% sure he was going to retire. When he came back to the light, he was 90% sure he was going to continue playing. Shortly after, he signed with the New York Jets.

Recently, Outside writer Tim Neville started to wonder how hard it really was, and what the experience was like. And he ended up at the same darkness retreat that Rodgers went to, and took a journey into the depths of his own mind. Farther in than I think anyone involved expected him to go. And it turns out, there are some very good reasons to be afraid of the dark.

Robbie Carver: In the past, Tim Neville has traveled pretty far for a story. There was the time he skied in North Korea, the other time he skied in Afghanistan. And then there was that crazy road trip through post-ISIS Kurdistan and Iraq. So it was a little surprising when a story idea popped up practically in his backyard.

Tim: I was sitting in bed one night just mindlessly scrolling through reels like so many of us do, and I just happened to come across one of the reels from this place called Sky Cave down in southern Oregon about, um, maybe three hours or so from where I live here in Bend. And, I was immediately hooked.

Robbie: The videos showed men and women as they emerged from their self-imposed periods of absolute darkness inside one of Sky Caves three buried cabins, capturing the first moment that light reentered their world as they slowly removed masks that protected their eyes.

Tim: And they spoke about it as if it were like this living, breathing thing that had helped them see parts of themselves, maybe. And so it was a hundred percent authentic. There was no way that they could be faking this.

Tim: I just think the idea of being in the dark, just being in the dark, first of all, I think is naturally scary for people. And I don't mean dark like in your bedroom when you turn off the lights and you can still see street lights or whatever. I'm talking pitch, pitch black. Like you can't, you See your hand in front of your face and your eyes will never adjust to it. Like complete utter darkness. I mean, you panic you, it's, it's just a natural reaction to just be like, Oh my God. Like one of your senses has just been completely stolen from you. Like our main sense, how we process and see the world is going to be completely taken away from you.

It was in 2012 that Scott heard about darkness retreats. Intrigued by the idea, he and his wife blacked out their rental house, taping all the windows, and spent five days in darkness. But the familiarity of the house, and spending the time with someone else, left him feeling that the experience lacked the kind of depth he wanted.

Scott: I was so humbled on just even my first day in there. I went in with a spiritual ego of like, I've got this. Not scared. I know solitude. I've spent years alone. I can meditate 10 hours a day. Like I'll be totally fine.

Robbie: Fast forward to today, and Scott now has three darkness cabins on his property near Siskiyou National Monument. When he first conceived of creating darkness retreats, Scott was sure it would only appeal to the most devout meditation practitioners. But the experience has struck a chord. His wait list is now years long, populated by people from every walk of life, including one nervous journalist still unsure just what he's getting himself into.

Tim: You know, I would have no way of checking the time. I would have no idea if it were day or night I would have no idea. Just like, even just the passage of time was going to become this very abstract thing.

Robbie Tim's wife calmed him down, reminding him that he isn't exactly trying to cross Kurdistan this time, so maybe just suck it up and be happy you don't have to check your cell phone for four days.

Robbie: To get inside, a guest walks through the outer door and descends down into a tiny foyer, then enters a second door into the tomb, sorry, the room. Inside There's a bed, a bathtub, a little meditation corner. A little two way cubby allows scott to put food items in for Tim to grab, all without any outside light ever ruining the experience. As Scott showed him around, Tim's anxiety began resurfacing.

Tim: I was like, what do I need to do to prepare for this? Like what do I, what do I how do I do this? Basically. I'm not I'm not a I'm not I'm definitely not a religious person and maybe I'm spiritual in some ways, but I'm not like a new age guy you know Yeah, I'm none of that stuff.

I'm pretty mainstream, you know, I mean I eat Taco Bell for goodness sakes, you know, that sort of thing. And so he's like there's nothing you can do. Like people who try to go into this thinking that they're going to manage the dark be it through meditation or chanting or You know, trying to get their 10,000 steps in by marching around the room, whatever. Like they're, they have a very, very difficult time.

What you need to do, he says, is you just have to surrender to this experience. And he kept saying, soften into it. You have to soften into the experience. And I was like, I really didn't couldn't understand what that meant

And he was much more blunt. He's like, look, it's basically like preparing for your deathbed. Like there's going to be no one around, there's, you're just alone, you're completely alone. You can't do anything. You just have to surrender to the experience and soften into it.

Tim Diary: It's about seven o'clock or so at night and I'm transitioning into the darkness. I, uh, I went to shut the door, and I just couldn't quite do it, couldn't quite get myself into the dark. I think I'm gonna sneak out and get one more peek at the sun. It's slipping behind the mountains. Okay.

Tim: And so I went down into the first room there, you know, um, he gives you a little candle, so I lit that candle and put it in the second room next to the bed. There's a light switch in that room that's got this like plastic guard on it like a little thing so that you can't accidentally flick on the light while in the middle of this experience. I shut all the doors. He's got like a towel that you put along the bottom of the door so that no light whatsoever can get in from anywhere. Like nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

Robbie: Tim had a water bottle, his toothbrush, cotton pajamas that were soft and smelled like his wife. He placed his things where he hoped he would remember, and turned off the light. He walked over to the bed, picked up the candle, and sat down. It would be four nights and three days before he saw the light again.

Tim: Just the absolute black that consumes you. It's not even like a garbage bag that comes over you, but that's sort of what it felt like like this suffocating just heavy nothingness just completely consumes you and there's nothing you can do about it There's nothing whatsoever and just that that feeling of all of a sudden understanding how dark the dark is was pretty terrifying.

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