Sleep ain't cheap! Sleep is a luxury for people with No dependents and the time to prioritize.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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I think we might need to add a few more axises, as we're missing one for "potency" and one for "accessibility". Sleep and exercise tend to require a large chunk of uninterrupted time and focus. Breathwork and meditations great for getting through a short-term spike in stress but significantly less potent than caffeine, food, or alcohol. Quality therapy is good precisely because it is supposed to be highly potent in relatively small doses. But, even more than cost, its often something a prospective patient struggles to find.
Social media and consumerism are addictive because they are so heavily immersive, which is useful when you're attempting to block anxiety out. Meanwhile, Learning and Hobbies can require a certain degree of focus that someone staring down a panic attack has difficulty bringing to bare.
*axes
I wonder if axises will be considered correct one day, kind of like what happened with indices and indexes.
... and appendixes and appendices.
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Even a little exercise does a lot already. Just five minutes of stretching, jumping around, dancing, or push-ups does wonders. Just as with breathwork and meditation, exercise can be done several times a day. Duration can be varied as well from 1 minute to 20.
Even a little exercise does a lot already.
Anything is better than nothing. But you're fooling yourself if you think a guy popping squats for five minutes a day is going to compare to someone with a full hour and comfortable accommodations for a yoga session. Hell, the difference between 10 min and 20 mins is really substantial in terms of how my back feels at the end of it.
from 1 minute to 20
Come on. You can barely get your pulse up inside a minute. That's not any kind of workout.
Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.
The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.
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How is sleep considered cheap? You have to pay a monthly subscription for the right to sleep, it's called rent.
How is sleep considered a source of dopamine?
A quick search yielded it helps reset and balance dopamine receptors but not that it provides any.
I had the same thought about therapy. Like who says that's a dopamine source? Feels like they just added random activities here. How about ice skating or baking as well?
Dopamine regulation as a whole could be considered "Dopamine Responsibly", the way I see it.
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helps reset and balance dopamine receptors
I mean, its sort of like asking how a tune-up for your car provides transportation.
If you're receptors are burnt out, your ability to process dopamine is severely inhibited.
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Homeless people sleep too.
Yes they do, until they get arrested for being homeless, because sadly many police and politicians just don't care. ☹️
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Anyone who has had to sleep rough (or just tried going camping without a tent) knows the relative value of four walls, a mattress, and a properly temperature-controlled room.
When I was about 12, I went camping with the church youth group. First day, it rained pretty hard for a couple hours. I left the tent door open the whole time. Everything was wet the whole trip. Sleeping while surrounded by water and wet things, is very uncomfortable. So, yes, all of these things are extremely important, and EVERY person should have access to all of these things.
I realised at the rate I go through shoes I have a subscription for my feet.
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I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁
It should probably be a smear that extends the entire height of the graph. I like birding, which can be totally free, and Magic:TG, which can be a pit that consumes many thousands of dollars.
Addictive and sustainable aren't opposites. If anything, addictiveness makes some things MORE sustainable. Coffee drinking is WAY more sustainable of a habit than exercise and meditation
This whole graph is nonsense
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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie.
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Needs to be another axis representing how “easy” it is to show if it requires any effort to do
It's basically the opposite of addictive. Addictive stuff is easy, because it quickly becomes a "need" not just something you theoretically want to do but can't really be bothered right now.
Even 'fun' stuff like TV shows, I can 'want' to catch up on shows, or finish the series I was loving, but if its down to choosing and making myself get round to it, I won't. But when suddenly I get a hyper focus on some old show and I binge forty episodes in a weekend it's 'easy'. What's hard is stopping, which I guess means I'm kinda in addict mode (until I overdo it and get board and abandon the watchthrough a few episodes from the end).
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You and I must have different hobbies
you forgot sex
Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.
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If social media was so addictive why am I not on it right now?
It's quite convenient and self-serving to not label Lemmy as social media.
With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity
No citation needed for overt pseudo-science.
https://judbrewer.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-myth-it-doesnt-make
What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?
It's all pseudo-scientific nonsense.
I'd argue that processed food (really, ultra processed food) is much more addictive and much less cheap then the chart implies
Ah, but you've forgotten the most crucial item. Listening to "Boyfriend gets hit by a meteor and fucking does ASMR".
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