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This is good but you can't do that everyday. Not sustainable unless you're a nomad or a shepherd in the mountains.

I agree. Meditation is out of the ecuation here. It is not the big elephant in the room.

Having a controlled temperature of about 18°C is a huge component. Not drinking estimulants like caffeine is a huge component. If you do so make sure you do them 10hs before bedtime. Anything that is sedative is not sleep-promoting. Alcohol is sedative for example, but it won't actually induce sleep. Light exposure before bed is also a huge blocking factor of sleep. When the sun goes down, melatonin levels rises which signals your brain is time for sleep. But when the sun goes down and you turn on your lights and use your cellphone then you're impeding melatonin release. A keyword you need to know is sleep pressure. As you go along your day, sleep preassure accumulates just as you spend energy in the activities of the day, because it is the result of adenosine accumulation. And during sleep the adenosine accumulation is worn off, reseting the system. There are key concepts within the book (and on the internet too for that matter) that you need to integrate to properly assesing the problem of bad sleep. I advice you to give it an eye while also listening to advices from other sources or people.

Have you read it? It actually helps you generate a big picture understanding of sleep. The overthinking aspect is when you do not have a big picture understanding in my opinion. Maybe the summary I wrote doesn't even capture the spirit of the book and the point I am trying to make, but nevertheless you don't need to fully discard it. I reckon I have a bias towards reading. But please be open to it. This is actually a big issue since you're never going to be open to the actual factors that might be disturbing your sleep. Like, hyprevigilance causes bad sleep, ok great. But what if it is the other way around, meaning bad sleep causes hypervigilance? There is a correlation between chronic sleep deprivation and mental health problem like psychosis. We are talking about months and years of bad sleep, even though a single all-nighter is bad enough. Hopefully you don't need the book to understand is just bad. But the book is perfect if you want a better nuanced understanding. Read it at your own pace. In fact, I would argue that just having a list of factors disrupting your sleep withouth a background context won't actually help you. If you sleep bad then the other day you're going to have a bad humour and be excesively reactive to negative stuff. This is something you can see for yourself.

Got it, I would incorporate them over time if I ever need them. Also there are graphic tablets which make sculpting more intuitive. And this is the procedural aspect of animation I like too: A different approach and different skills needed. No sculpting there.

The obvious source of bad sleep, caffeine: Maybe it makes you consider quitting. It is like a drug epidemic.

@Nilsi I don't know what to respond you

Great.

Found an amazing course enrollment, it's from Class Creatives. They have a lot of courses including for Zbrush, Maya and Unreal. For anyone interested. They have from beginners to advanced. Also, if you have a favourite online course please share it here.

Still watching videos speaking about the softwares. I'll probably start to learn Zbrush. Then maybe do rigging and animation in Maya. I want to expand my scope and not only rely on Blender.

Not true. A 9-5 job doesn't even get close to your sleeping window. Is the fact that you and most people won't take seriously what the summary I wrote says. Whowever, there are jobs that will inherently prevent good sleep for the employees. Like a nurse on duty or a night-time shift police officer. They then, almost for sure, will rely on estimulants just to function. But again, sleep deprivation is ingrained in society and somehow thought of as a professional attitude. The less you sleep, the more professional you're considered. The more you sleep, the more lazy and lack of moral you're considered. Sleeping good is actually not hard. The hard part is going against the norms of society which is by default a messed up sleep schedule.

I DMd him and responded vey quickly. This it what he said: "...To give you a brief overview of my workflow - I create all 3D scenes in Blender. Blender is open source, free and gives you pretty much everything you need to create great scenes. It can be a bit frustrating at times as it's not the easiest program, but once you get past the first 2 weeks you'll get into it . I do the editing in Adobe Premiere. I edit the audio files in premiere and Audition. I create many of my audio files myself with my small recording device and then edit them later in the program. However, I obtain many audio files from various online libraries or sample packs. But for the beginning I would recommend you to start in Blender. It's free and there are lots of tutorials on YT."

They say Houdini is very powerful but has a steep learning curve. I like the procedural aspect of 3D art, which can be done in Blender too, but aparently Houdini is best. I did an online course on geometry nodes in Blender. But again, I did not push through so it's like going to the gym once a month. I am passionate about character design. Probably with that alone I'll spend a lot of time getting good at it. Which encompases sketching, sculpting, modeling, rigging, and finally animation. I can do that on Blender. Then I can create ambients and scenery in Houdini, where I can import the characters I made in Blender. Do youo think is a good workflow? Thanks, I am thinking through your answers.

I'll consider this. Building a showreel as my portfolio is a good way of getting started and knowing what steps to take next. I'll probably stick to Blender since the workflow there is well designed... On the other hand I don't want to limit myself with just one tool.

You're pushing me enough to take some action, that's good. I didn't know about Nuke, only used Blender. But I always wondered what software you use if you want to merge real life footage with CGI

I'll desagree with you in this... we yearn for something bigger. However I do find confusing the Crypto world. Is it what the El Salvador goverment is doing, buying cryptos a good or a bad move?

A boring job for me

Probably because your own mind is like an asylum Seriously, there are gems here.

Interest plus discipline. Is the thirst for deeply understanding a thing that makes me read through when I don't feel like reading. Plus, there are moments in my life where I read more. In other moments I read nothing.

Good question, probably the only good question to be asked here... Should I start with some answers: -Not ignoring people talking directly at you. You post, you are responsible for the comments you get. Cause' at the end of the day you're here because you enjoy interacting with random people and getting new insights. Which opens the next answer: -Facing fears, facing truth. In this case, facing to read comments when you are afraid of the responses. -Making the commitment/having the intention to only post from an intelligent perspective. -Recognizing that you are as evil as I am and stoping the hypocrisy of only judging, critizising and diminishing the other. (Too general, but applies in this context) -Mantaining the original thread's intention. Only post comments that correlate to the topic. Do this and you are automatically showing love. Those are a few answer but I encourage the readers to go further. There are hundreds of good answers.

Lol

Nice! Matthew's writing style is very easy going. There sure is an answer. Just stumbled uppon this video today, it may give you a hint.

There's hope for y'all trying to sleep earlier...

Not too quick . It would be pretty easy to just decide to go to bed early and falling asleep. Ever wondered why not everyone does just that? As I explained before there are a lot of factors that will determine what time you go to bed. Most of which can mascarade as insomnia but in reality are external, fixable elements.

@Sandroew Yes, but sadly most people will never apply the techniques. Unless you're willing to stop eating more than 3 hours before bed, eliminating or regulating exposure to light 90 minutes before bed, not drinking alcohol, not smoking, then you're gonna have a bad time falling asleep, and what is worst, you're not gonna have a profound sleep. It is explained in great detail in the book and plenty of videos on YouTube aswell, I recommend checking Braian Johnson channel, he basically mastered sleeping. Its up to you. I don't care if you choose to sleep bad, although it will be great if you don't. Caffeine disrupts sleep, alcohol disrupts sleep, digestion disrupts it, light greater than 5lux does the job too. A room too hot will do it, approximately you need it to be ~18°C depending on genetics. Thats because in deep sleep stages your body temperature plummets about one degree celcius. As you can appreciate, there is not a single tip but rather a fairly complex understanding to have to tame good sleep. But the reward is by far worth the effort.