{"id":90387,"date":"2025-03-20T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90387"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:05:18","slug":"cognitive-shuffling-for-insomnia-words-instead-of-counting-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90387","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCognitive Shuffling\u201d for insomnia: words instead of counting sheep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/well\/mind\/sleep-cognitive-shuffling.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/well\/mind\/sleep-cognitive-shuffling.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou start by taking a random word \u2014 \u201cPluto,\u201d for example. Then think of as many words as you can that begin with the same first letter, like so: \u201cPlane, poodle, play, peaches.\u201d When you run out of \u201cP\u201d words, you can move on to the next letter of your original word, which is \u201cL,\u201d and do the same thing: \u201cLove, light, lemur, linger.\u201d Take a second or so to visualize each word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/well\/mind\/sleep-cognitive-shuffling.html \u201cYou start by taking a random word \u2014 \u201cPluto,\u201d for example. Then think of as many words as you can that begin with the same first letter, like so: \u201cPlane, poodle, play, peaches.\u201d When you run out of \u201cP\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90388,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387\/revisions\/90388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}