Published on 12, July, 2020
This a thread for a people who are still awake at night and feeling lonely. You can chat here.
A very bleak night owl tonight. I feel that my feathers will fall out soon.
sad face here. feathers grow back!
here's a little something..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTns5EnMGjI&ab_channel=BobDorough-Topic
bleak night owl
Morning.
If I spot that I am in bleak mode; I find I need to be thoughtful / careful about my music selections for a while.
I keep a short-ish playlist of suitable "safe" music track choices to play on a loop until my mood lifts a bit.
I think my music choices for that particular playlist are a bit more eclectic than my usual taste, but hey, if it can nudge me out of stall or bleak mode - so be it. I give it a try.
In bleak / stall mode; I don't aim for traditionally gleeful / uplifting material (too saccharin for me).
I go for tracks drawn from a mix of genres and cultures - which have lyrics, themes, associations or musical styles which I find more life determined or that I find infectious in their enthusiasm of musical beat or artist's performance style. I don't look for comedy content - but if it can associate a smile of recognition - that track can stay on the playlist.
Such material will, by it's nature and objectives, be a highly personal selection - so it doesn't really make sense to share notes on the anti-stall playlist I choose to deploy.
Hoping you might have access to some music choices of your own that are more likely, than not, to aid surfacing from very bleak night owl status.