• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    How does one even come to believe something so ridiculous as “using a percussive massage gun on my eyes will alleviate tiredness”? Like how does that idea get planted in your mind in the first place? How does it grow?

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      16 hours ago

      I bet it actually works, in the sense that injury can produce an adrenaline response.

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      Rubbing your eyes a bit can make you feel a bit less tired, so obviously using a machine to rub your eyes a lot will make you feel a lot less tired. Brought to you by the school of I felt happier after two beers, so clearly I will feel ten times happier still if I drink twenty more beers.

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      You know when you are so tired you can’t think straight? I guess you’d need to be this foggy to even entertain this as being an actual idea.

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        I think you also need to throw in tendencies towards self harm in there. Like you’re not just tired, you want to beat your body into not being tired.

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          If it’s a chronic pain then I can see that for sure, I’ve had times where I’ve just felt like putting my head through a wall would be the most effective relief. Walls are a lot sturdier than movies would have you believe

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      “Getting repeatedly punched in the eye sockets by a high-powered handheld device is a bad idea” should be the default, but here we are.

      I’m not even sure how it sounds appealing to be honest.