/lit/ - Literature

It's pronounced Neew-tschai.

>>16011820
that those books are too hard for you, what do you usually read?

>>16011854
No, I'd actually been having a lot of fun with them (Nietszche espesically) before I came down with the fog. I usually read non-fic, though I keep mixing in a fic from lits 100 sticky. Good stuff.

>>16011820
>IQ points
This is your issue.

>>16011916
damn, you got me, bro.

>>16011820
>What's the problem here?
It could be the fact that you're reading 200-250 pages of philosophy per day. When people read more than 30 per hour I get really suspect that they are understanding what they're reading, and in the case of philosophy it's basically guaranteed that they're getting none of it. I'm going to assume you're not reading eight hours a day, so I'm also going to assume you're reading too fast and not getting what you're reading. Slow down. Maybe take notes.

>>16011820
>I usually read about 200-250 pages per day, though the numbers for fiction are a bit higher.
How many hours does it take you to read 200-250 pages?

I literally unironically can't make it past 30 pages per day

>>16011820
You have to rest, learn to meditate and you are good to go. Everyone need to rest to get the new information in order.

>>16012157
Spread it out, people are awake about 16 hours a day, you could read for 1 hour near the beginning and 1 hour near the end and knock out 40 pages if you read just 20 per hour.

>>16011820
I hear getting laid by a human woman helps with the fog.

>>16011820
Also let me add to this >>16012169
The brain uses glucose firstly and fat latter, but when the brain consumes all the sugar you always feel like shit in general, everyone should factor his food intake in consideration.

>>16012121
I read all day, actually, and usually ruminate on the text I've consumed before proceeding.

>>16011820
>I usually read about 200-250 pages per day
I don't believe. This is bate. Simple. Fuck off.

>>16012207
Okay. Assuming you're really just reading most of your waking sixteen hours, you might just be burning out. If you were reading for hours and hours I feel you'd just eventually enter trance mode and stuff would stop sticking.

>>16012207

Concentrating and comphrension consumes calories / nutrients. You're concentration power is way above mine, but I find food + energy drinks clear the brain fog. Also consider if its caused by lack of sleep, excess caffeine, etc. The brain fog is just you getting tired / the brain not having the resources it needs. I normally get it after about 30-90 mins of hard reading, or 3 hours if I've had an energy drink. I envy your contration power.

>>16011820
This happens to me too sometimes, and I think it's particular to every person. What sets it off for me is bad sleep or falling asleep while high, the latter is especially bad and ruins my day

>>16012205
>>16012309

My diet might be it. I try to exercise daily but my eating is shit. Nothing but tea and the occasional fruit. I'll try to work on it, thanks.

As for concentrating, interacting with material that you're interested in should keep you in check. I usually do a chapter of whatever I'm reading, then laze about on /lit/ or whatever for about 10-15 minutes before starting again. Take breaks in a manner that works for you.

>>16012285

16 is a bit much lmao. I've never really kept track of the time I've been spending reading but it would be around 8-9 hours, I guess.

>>16012201

Having sex actually makes me feel more sluggish after the glow wears off.

>>16012169

Man, I wish I could meditate. The most I get are the Mishima-style moments of clarity during exercise, but just sitting and doing nothing kills me. I get conscious about my breathing and blinking, which is gruesome.

>>16011820
Maybe stop watching anime and jacking off to sissy hypno.

>>16012593
Been a while since I watched any good anime. Eva 3.33 left a sour taste in my mouth. Got any recommendations?

Also, real-talk. I got really into sissy hypno for a while. And I mean REALLY into it. Autogynephillia was in overdrive. And one day the fetish just, vanished. Really weird.

>>16012746
Maybe you have weird disassociation episodes. That thing where your fetish just disappears and you lose 30 IQ points after reading sounds like that.

>>16012973

The sissy hypno is another matter entirely, but brain fog seems to be a relatively common occurrence. It just makes me feel like shit and lethargic and hinders my understanding of whatever I'm consuming since I lack the drive to think. Thankfully, I'm already feeling better over the course of this thread. Will read some Jung tonight.

As for the hypno; maybe. I think a certain isotope of depression makes one very hypersexual, just as some completely lose their sex drive. It might just be an escalation of fetishes stemming from that, since I cannot be attracted to men at all, but I recall wanting to be a woman and fucked by even the grossest dudes back when I had these episodes of extreme autogynephillia. Who knows, man?

The amount of information we're consuming daily and not properly synthesizing is poisonous.

>>16013189
>>16012580
>>16011820
>constantly posting lewd images on a Sudanese calligraphy imageboard
>has a folder of such images
>exposed frequently to titillation and anime
>"bro, why do I have brain fog?"
Focus.

>>16011820
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-dark-side-of-reading-no-one-tells-you-and-a-system-to-combat-it-d21fa5e5a6f8 this unironically

>>16012746
See how I could tell that you watch sissy hypno by your post? Maybe that's something to think about.

>>16013299

I'm actually jerking off whilst reading your post. A copy of Jung's essays on Dementia Praecox lays open besides me; naked with temerity. I stroke the well worn pages, and with the phantom of that touch still nestled amidst my fingertips, I stroke myself. My attention climbs this ladder of tasks with razor sharp precision. I have never felt as lucid.

>>16013364

Anyone acquainted with sissy hypno in even the faintest sense is already too far gone. See how your being able to tell that I watch sissy hypno tells me that you've already clamoured down the hole as well?

>>16013391
No, I haven't. I don't need to have done heroin to recognise a smackhead.

>>16013391
Also, you're displaying one of the most insidious symptoms of late stage porn addiction (at which point you are no longer human by any means) which is the compulsion to corrupt everything around you with your own filth.

>how do I consoom more pages per day
ngmi

>>16013402

The funniest part of this whole assault on my chastity it's been more than a year since I've actually watched any porn. Insidious.

>>16012207
Okay, but still, the point here is that you will never retain 250 pages of Kant read in 24 hours. Even 100 pages would still be too much. It should take you months to study texts like this. What they require is a careful, rigorous reading. This can be applied to most phillsophy books, even the seemingly easier ones (like Hume's treatises): even on these ones you would have to ruminates for weeks, if not months. These people aren't just presenting a string of arguments: they're developing an entire systematic worldview, which simply cannot be reasonably and properly understood in 1-3 days

Basically: reading a philosophy book is not the same as reading a novel. When it comes to philosophy, speedreading is to be avoided.

>>16012207
Spend those 8 hours of reading on 30 pages instead.

>>16011820

Hey OP I have the same issue, except I'm mostly brain fog with occasional moments of serious clarity.

I can read no more than like 60 pages a day, assuming it's moderate difficulty text. Highly difficult text maybe 20-30 unless I am free for the whole day.

I'm not sure there's much science on the phenomenon of brainfog, but it's likely the result of some kind of arousal imbalance. Directed attention fatigue in some cases, some cases it can be caused by some kind of glutamate / dopamine imbalance in the brain. I personally think that the negative symptoms experienced by Schizophrenics might cover a range of normal experience that manifests less severely and protracted

>>16013948

Which is why I don't read 250 pages of Kant in a day. I have multiple books that I cycle through and pay my dues to, according to my mood. How much time per author varies greatly. I don't speed-read; I just have an abundance of time.

>>16014224

Firstly, my condolences. Constant brainfog must be really fucking hard to deal with.

Also, that's a really interesting observation regarding schizos. While mostly conjecture, given that in a majority of cases there is no central Ego to experience events, it makes sense that the splinter psyches operating autonomously wouldn't be able to really comprehend each other in their entirety, since psychic energy would be split between the two. Maybe that'd constitute brain fog?

>>16011820
Do you open your windows? Stale air causes brainfog.

>>16011820
Avoid foods containing a lot of free glutamic acid (yeast extract, hydrolyzed proteins, msg, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity

>>16014383

My room is usually very stale. It doesn't help that I have to spend most of my time in there. I try to air it out daily but it always reeks of sweat.

>>16014512
That might be the reason. I'd advise you to get a fan an

And "reeks of sweat" doesn't change anything, stale air refers to oxygen and CO2 levels. The brain needs fresh air to function.

See https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA for a demonstration of this effect.

>>16011820
Take a 15 minute nap. Your brain has too much in short term memory.

>>16014568

By "reeks of sweat" I was hinting at possible mold growth. I've heard it smells similarly musty.

>>16014512
>I try to air it out daily
That's way too little air, you should be doing it more frequently

>>16014576

Damn, I wish I could. Takes me an hour or two to fall asleep and I can't sleep at all if the sun's up. If I somehow manage to, I wake up feeling like my soul was violated by a burly black man.

>>16014288
>I don't speed-read; I just have an abundance of time.
I do too since I have NEET summers, but I spend a big part of it talking to people online, another big part of it reading secondary and tertiary articles online, another big part of it writing, another big part of it making art, another big part of it watching content online, and another big part of it cooking. I guess good on you for spending eight hours reading but usually I spend closer to three reading ~50 pages of philosophy.

please tell me how to read 200 pages a day
i read like 20

>>16016413
>please tell me how to read 200 pages a day
Lie on the internet.

>>16013879
>It has been more than a year since I have watched any porn
>Posts pornography as his thread pic
Your brain is fried, proto-tranny. It's over for you.

>>16016432
Boo hoo.

>>16014224
There's lots of science on it, cuckold. Eat a whole foods diet, get enough animal protein, and fix your sleep. Chuckold.

What do you actually do that allows you to do nothing but read all day? I'm too busy with school and studying japanese to read anything as complex as philosophy for more than 2 hours a day.
>>16012580
>I wish I could meditate
You just got to keep doing it; I promise you it will feel more and more natural as you continue.

>>16011820
Ignoring everything else you might be fucking up, I'd suggest you try reading more books in parallel. Spaced repetition is one of the most powerful aids to comprehension and retention no matter your IQ. Instead of trying to zoom through 2 books of close argumentation, chew on 4. You'll have more time turning over each thread in your mind and also read the same amount you are now.
Honestly you might just need to read less, but try parallelization first.

>>16012154
>hours

>>16017318

I actually very consciously cut down to just two books for now, since I had been previously reading 5 and I didn't feel I could give each my undivided attention. Stuff like Gundrisse and The Quran was fairly dry as well, so I'm glad I'm done with those two.

>>16017265

I'm in college, and I have online classes, but I usually just put them on in the background whilst playing vidya or reading, and text my teacher saying I'm having trouble with the Zoom client. Also, good on you for learning the moon runes. I wish I was disciplined enough to learn. Might give meditation a shot, yeah.

>>16017204

Chuckold Paluchnok.

>>16016413

If you enjoy those 20 pages, what's the problem? Just engage with text you enjoy and take measured breaks. The most important thing is visualizing it as a hobby rather than a chore.

>>16014893

Good on you for keeping yourself busy. I can't cook for shit. As for the reading, the start of quarantine was spent solely working on music. Then I switched over to excessive reading and got just as tunnel visoned, lol.

Also, check out my music. ::)
Nothing too grand, but it's a start.

https://soundcloud.com/sparemesunshine/sets/tweaker-princess

>>16017791
>>16013367
You're clearly smart, but I don't understand why you've decided to brag with a trigger-happy use of the enter key on an anonymous Sumerian basket-weaving forum, while attaching semi-titillating, semi-nauseating Taiwanese claymation images. I understand that you're probably a bored and borderline schizophrenic NEET who revels in making his online interactions with strangers as obnoxious as possible, but I would have thought that your explorations in translated German philosophy would have at least given you some greater sense of aesthetic sensibility and prevented you from posting this hideous disjunction of high culture with navel-gazing drivel and filth.

>>16014586
>By "reeks of sweat" I was hinting at possible mold growth. I've heard it smells similarly musty.
That stuff will literally kill you and your landlord will hate you for destroying the house so please take care of it soon, I had to deal with a house mold problem before and it was a pain.

>>16017838
>Also, check out my music
Surprisingly comfy and actually good anon, if that's truly you. Still nice even if it isn't.

>>16018667

Thank you very much. I really appreciate anyone enjoying it, since I get pretty insecure about it. Thanks again.

I used to read almost a book a day in the times of my NEETdom. Just pure interest and enjoyment. Now that I have responsibilities I can barely concentrate on anything.