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Cognitive Shuffle

The cognitive shuffle is a technique in which you deliberately picture a sequence of unconnected, emotionally neutral objects, one after another, to prevent the mind from forming the coherent narrative that keeps it alert.

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How it works

Racing thoughts at night are usually one long connected chain. This breaks the connections on purpose: a random ordinary object, then another with no relation to it, held only briefly. The deliberate incoherence is the mechanism — it resembles the drifting quality of falling asleep rather than the sustained focus of thinking.

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the cognitive shuffle described by Luc Beaudoin.

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