I've had this old blanket since I was 11. I don't wanna say my exact age but let's say it's been over a decade. When I moved homes, I just had to have my blanket and old pillowcase. When I moved homes my mom threw away my old blanket and I was really upset and my mom just about got it back before it got disposed of for good and I was so happy that my blanket was "saved".

The blanket's so old it has holes in it and a few years ago I found out the exact same blanket is still being sold and I bought a new one which looks nothing like my old one because it's...well, new, but I'm still using the old one and the new one is still in its packaging. I almost feel like it's a friend? Almost? And by sleeping with another blanket I'm betraying it or something. I just feel immediately comforted by the blanket even though there's nothing objectively comforting about it (it's not a weighted blanket and is so worn down it's not very insulating).

I don't know. I feel some weird emotional connection to that blanket? Does anyone else feel something similar or can relate?

My old boyfriend died in 2015 (from diabetes) and I've been single since then. I also don't know if I'll like having sex or not. I am sexually attracted to men/am straight but I don't know. It's like the idea of someone doing that to me, I'd find it embarrassing because I'm gross.

Adenosine is a waste product of neurons and it is a potent nervous system depressant which is why if we don't sleep for a long time we hallucinate, start to feel cold, and feel tired. We feel like we're drugged because we kind of are. It also increases sleep pressure. Unlike other areas of the body the brain has no way of flushing out the adenosine unless we sleep which activates the glymphatic system. if we don't sleep the adenosine keeps accumulating and it can kill us in a similar way an od of sleeping pills can.

My friend has very bad brain fog from a physical condition. It's so bad she often pauses when she speaks like a YouTube video trying to buffer on a bad internet connection and she told me she wants to be more like her former self. She's on medication for the condition, but the brain fog is one symptom that persists. She wants some good insight on how effective amphetamines are for brain fog in the non-ADHD population. She could only find people who have both ADHD and brain fog which could skew things. She doesn't have ADHD, just brain fog.

Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods