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I thought the point of counting sheep was to do something boring and repetitive that puts your brain into a relaxed state

• perrygeo 20d ago
  Visualizing a sheep is not something I can even do once. Let alone repetitively until it gets boring. Being asked to visualize is quite frustrating and confusing - especially to a little kid not sure exactly what he's supposed to be "seeing". Hardly relaxing.
  • dooglius 20d ago
    I don't think you actually had to visualize the sheep for it to work, I never thought of that as being explicitly required
    • perrygeo 15d ago
      That's just "counting". But for many people (the vast majority of humans), they can and do easily visualize sheep as they count them.