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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With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity
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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie.
Breathwork
Meditation
Exercise
Sleep
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.
Axix? Axex?
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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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I realised at the rate I go through shoes I have a subscription for my feet.
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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.
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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.
No citation needed for overt pseudo-science.
https://judbrewer.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-myth-it-doesnt-make
You and I must have different hobbies
What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?
It's all pseudo-scientific nonsense.
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).
I got one that is easy and actually saves you money. Foraging wild fruits. Looking at making some sloe jelly soon, ordered some cheesecloth and just waiting for that to arrive so I can strain the juice.
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
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.
It's SO expensive, in my experience. How are people having sex multiple times a week at $1,000 a pop!? I guess it's one of those things only for the wealthy, like everything else.
Seriously though, I had times when condoms strained my budget quite a lot
It was like: do I buy this 12-pack or do I rather eat in the next 4 days?
of course it was condoms all the way
Ah yes, here's the updated graph after plotting all the points where "sex" can go:
(You may need to be in light mode to see it better)
Wait... people get dopamine from exercise?!
It's just a meme. Literally not science at all. Not even close.
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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.
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