I learned from chaosmage that focusing on a single topic tends to make you awake while diluting your awareness with many different topics makes you sleepy. Or something like that. I have tried that and can tentatively confirm it. Your method sounds make like the latter.
Yes, my method is to visualize a large collection of many small things that have no relation to each other, like a big shelf of random stuff. Sometimes I throw them in all directions. This is the best method I have found.
I let my mind wander quickly from visuals to forms to patterns to speech to persons or some such—all unrelated to each other. It doesn’t work reliably but better than nothing.
I learned from chaosmage that focusing on a single topic tends to make you awake while diluting your awareness with many different topics makes you sleepy. Or something like that. I have tried that and can tentatively confirm it. Your method sounds make like the latter.
Yes, my method is to visualize a large collection of many small things that have no relation to each other, like a big shelf of random stuff. Sometimes I throw them in all directions. This is the best method I have found.
I let my mind wander quickly from visuals to forms to patterns to speech to persons or some such—all unrelated to each other. It doesn’t work reliably but better than nothing.
I find it too hard to keep things unrelated over time, so I prefer to keep thinking up new objects at what passes for random to my sleepy mind.