u/FriendlySubwayRat

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I just woke up from a nightmare where I was pulling long stalks of invasive grass in my yard, and the worst part was when I looked down and saw this other random common weed. I just had this visceral aversion to it and felt like it would attack me.

This dream got me thinking back to all the other times I've been unusually scared of plants. As a kid, I had an intense fear of most leaves, especially sassafras leaves (which I'm still terrified of). I used to get nightmares and intrusive thoughts that I was trapped in a white void surrounded by sassafras leaves and unable to close my eyes, and even now, I cannot look at a sassafras tree. Just thinking about them freaks me out. The leaves...the way they are shaped like uncanny hands...

Just a few weeks ago, I was cleaning up a stream valley and encountered a bunch of stringy white roots and it really freaked me out as well. More so than the snake I also ran away from.

I grew up and still live in a very luscious area, and I haven't ever been completely overtaken by a fear of plants, so I don't know if this can really qualify as a phobia, but it's just interesting to consider that I might have some sort of fear of plants.

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u/FriendlySubwayRat — 21 days ago

About me: I'm 19F and want to build a more masculine physique

I've heard that it's important to give your muscles time to rest and regenerate, but I'm curious if that is important if I'm not training until complete exhaustion. Is it worth my time to just do moderate lifting every day or would I be better off doing a split routine?

I've been doing arm day every day for a month and I've noticed moderate muscle gains already, but, I also want to do whatever will be the most efficient and effective.

Edit: the consensus seems to be that I should be training till failure, working with heavier weights, and taking rest days because without fatigue and rest I won't see progress. With this in mind, I just did an ab workout for the first time in who knows how long and it was embarrassingly easy to train till failure lol. From here, I'll work on building a real weekly routine that isn't just "screw around with some dumbells for a while."

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u/FriendlySubwayRat — 21 days ago