You mean like the sort of peg you use to hang up clothes with? I’ve heard of people using them for kinky bondage stuff, but not for keeping themselves awake. Don’t they have the disadvantage that the longer you leave them on, the more they hurt when you take them off, thanks to cut off circulation?
At least with hair-pulling, you can keep it up indefinitely, and you can vary the pain level depending on how much you want and how much you can take. You’d also probably look a bit less weird fidgeting with your hair than you would wearing a clothespin clamped on your ear, even if you have to take up a hand to do so.
Yes, I’m referring to clothes pegs. One acquaintance of mine in particular who made use of it was quite adept at managing the sensory experience effectively to create different physical associations to subjects for various peg locations. He was also an arts major and sufficiently socially adept as to harness the ‘weirdness’ as a peacock effect. And when we went out at night the peg doubled as some kind of drinking game...
Other self-inflicted-pain based learning aids include elastic bands and the cat o’ nine tails.
Wouldn’t rubber bands be dangerous, due to the risk of losing a limb or something? Tourniquets aren’t supposed to be applied unless you’re in danger of bleeding to death or you’ve basically already lost the limb already, after all, and while a rubber band might not be as tight, it still seems dangerous. I haven’t got any first hand experience with them, so I might be wrong, though.
Also, cat o’ nine tails? Seriously? What are you going to do, pull your shirt off and start self-flagellating while you’re in the middle of a test or a lecture or a business meeting or something? :P XD
Wouldn’t rubber bands be dangerous, due to the risk of losing a limb or something?
Only in the sense that plastic bags are dangerous. If young children get the crazy idea of putting plastic bags over their heads or using elastic bands as tourniquets then they might suffocate or lose limbs. Sane people who use elastic bands as a source of self stimulus flick them against their wrist.
Also, cat o’ nine tails? Seriously? What are you going to do, pull your shirt off and start self-flagellating while you’re in the middle of a test or a lecture or a business meeting or something? :P XD
I thought I was safe with that one. It’s a cat o’ nine tails, an instrument used for brutal torture and maiming. No, you don’t use that as a substitute for a bottle of mountain dew when you need help paying attention. (Yet th self flaggelation usages still fits the category ‘self-inflicted-pain based learning aids’.)
You mean like the sort of peg you use to hang up clothes with? I’ve heard of people using them for kinky bondage stuff, but not for keeping themselves awake. Don’t they have the disadvantage that the longer you leave them on, the more they hurt when you take them off, thanks to cut off circulation?
At least with hair-pulling, you can keep it up indefinitely, and you can vary the pain level depending on how much you want and how much you can take. You’d also probably look a bit less weird fidgeting with your hair than you would wearing a clothespin clamped on your ear, even if you have to take up a hand to do so.
Yes, I’m referring to clothes pegs. One acquaintance of mine in particular who made use of it was quite adept at managing the sensory experience effectively to create different physical associations to subjects for various peg locations. He was also an arts major and sufficiently socially adept as to harness the ‘weirdness’ as a peacock effect. And when we went out at night the peg doubled as some kind of drinking game...
Other self-inflicted-pain based learning aids include elastic bands and the cat o’ nine tails.
Wouldn’t rubber bands be dangerous, due to the risk of losing a limb or something? Tourniquets aren’t supposed to be applied unless you’re in danger of bleeding to death or you’ve basically already lost the limb already, after all, and while a rubber band might not be as tight, it still seems dangerous. I haven’t got any first hand experience with them, so I might be wrong, though.
Also, cat o’ nine tails? Seriously? What are you going to do, pull your shirt off and start self-flagellating while you’re in the middle of a test or a lecture or a business meeting or something? :P XD
Only in the sense that plastic bags are dangerous. If young children get the crazy idea of putting plastic bags over their heads or using elastic bands as tourniquets then they might suffocate or lose limbs. Sane people who use elastic bands as a source of self stimulus flick them against their wrist.
I thought I was safe with that one. It’s a cat o’ nine tails, an instrument used for brutal torture and maiming. No, you don’t use that as a substitute for a bottle of mountain dew when you need help paying attention. (Yet th self flaggelation usages still fits the category ‘self-inflicted-pain based learning aids’.)