I can't sleep. It is driving me insane. I want to sleep but every time I try my mind drifts to other things (namly a particular girl) and I find it impossible. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...
Sleep: A Long Lost Skill
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 1 SL Chris ZS |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (07/05/02 10:22 AM) SARS Incubator |
I hear you. For me, it's not drifting though. I just can't. It just sometimes feels physically impossible to fall unconscious.
If you keep thinking about her, sometimes it's best to write down your thoughts, just for yourself. It'll probably keep you up for half the night, but it might help you sleep tomorrow and the day after. |
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0Brak0 |
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Posts: 308 (07/05/02 4:09 PM) |
No waste time dreamoing 'bout 'brak
   98 degreezies has braksoul (TM) yes! ... what? Bitch again!!!! :) |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4512 (07/05/02 8:52 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Despite the noise of July 4th, I slept from about 10 PM to about 11 AM. I think it had something to do with quitting drinking a few days ago.
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (07/07/02 11:35 AM) SARS Incubator |
But why would you do that!?
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (07/07/02 4:25 PM) SARS Incubator |
An article I came across -- Less sleep may cure tiredness: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english...097666.stm
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4512 (07/07/02 9:26 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Ah, I've just been feeling a lot closer to my age than I'd like to lately, and my organs have been telling me things.
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (07/09/02 4:33 PM) Board Leprechaun |
I'm sleeping better because (a) the pillow top mattresses and excessive pillows they stock the hotel room with and (b) I won't be seeing the afformentioned girl for about 2 weeks *sigh*
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4512 (07/10/02 1:39 AM) Audio Ambassador |
I keep hearing about the less sleep may cure tiredness angle, and I think it's right up there with the drink hot beverages on hot days and cold beverages on cold days theory. Which is to say, hogwash.
Chris, I know you like to be secretive and all, but let me get this straight, you're a web-designer in 2002 who gets to (is expected to) travel on the job? Do you work for a .com? Or is the travel job something else altogether? |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (07/10/02 11:41 AM) SARS Incubator |
Speaking of tired, I had my third consecutive groaner this morning, where you just kinda toss and turn for an hour or two, utterly convinced of your physical incapacity to climb out from the covers.
And I'm trying to remedy that with a few heavy doses of caffeination, but it doesn't feel like it's working. Egad, ljim, do you have it wrong about Chris.  I'll let him go into the details, but he's not a web designer -- more like a hobbyist like myself (shameless self-promotion: although my freelance writing and designing services are readily available via Punch-Face Media). And I think he's just on vacation at the moment.
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (07/12/02 10:26 AM) Board Leprechaun |
ljim, I love it when people mistake me for a professional/adult. In reality I'm, as nick said, a hobbyist and 13 years old.
Nick: as for Punch-Face media, I'd suggest motre than a splash-page with a *cough* peculiar *cough* design...
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SuperJarrad |
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Posts: 633 (07/13/02 2:04 AM) COBRA Commander |
My sleep has been disturbed by odd semi-conscious feelings of vertigo and paralysis. I've had that for many years now. It comes and goes. Anyone else experience that?
Is my mind slipping? Ah! Check this. The other morning, I was sleeping late and had two dreams: 1) I dreamed I had a new video game and was going to play it with a bunch of friends. I woke up, realized it was all a dream and felt very disappointed. I promptly fell back asleep and 2) Dreamed that I was about to take a Psychology exam for which I was completely unprepared. I woke up and felt relieved that it was summer and didn't have to think about an exam for quite a while. The mind plays some funny tricks on itself. "The great thing about America is everybody should vote."-- George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 8, 2000
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LuckyLotus23 |
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Posts: 249 (07/13/02 10:02 PM) |
<Shudders> I've had a similar dream with that last one involving exams
 In fact, I remember one time I had three consecutive nightmares It was horrible.<("<)...<(' ')>...(>")>
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Alia |
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Posts: 1671 (07/13/02 11:19 PM) Umma Regent |
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is vertigo? And you mean you experience both in your dreams or when falling asleep?
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SuperJarrad |
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Posts: 633 (07/14/02 5:20 PM) COBRA Commander |
I think vertigo is the correct word for it. I feel like I'm spinning or floating, but I;m not really dreaming. I'm very much aware that I'm lying in a bed and can sort of see the room I'm in through half-open eyes. It's usually when I'm falling asleep. Though sometimes it happens in the middle of my sleep, especially if I am very tired.
I had the paralysis feeling this morning. I woke up at 6am, but then took a nap at about 10:15am and that's when it happened. It's scary stuff. "The great thing about America is everybody should vote."-- George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 8, 2000
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Alia |
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Posts: 1671 (07/14/02 9:14 PM) Umma Regent |
Ohh, I see. Kinda unrelated, but I've always wanted to see that movie Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock. Has anyone seen it?
I'm pretty sure I wrote this somewhere (unless I was dreaming, ha)... but I've experienced something simliar. And it started only in the past year, which is weird. I feel it when I'm on the brink of falling asleep, or so I think. My head is spinning and I'm being pulled to sleep. But even though I want to fall asleep, I resist and try to shake the feeling off me, only to realize that I can't move. This lasts for a few moments, until I can shake my head from side to side and sit up in bed to clear my head. Happened only a few nights ago, and I still can't tell if it's a dream or my head is messed up. |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (07/14/02 9:41 PM) SARS Incubator |
Yeah, it's sleep paralysis.
During REM sleep, the brain actually disconnects with the rest of your body -- researchers speculate that this is so that you don't get up and start running around and sleepwalking during your dream, because REM sleep is a very brain-intensive phenomena that isn't far from consciousness. What happens during paralysis is that you wake up in the midst of REM, and somehow, your brain doesn't have time to reconnect itself with your muscles, so you can't move. It usually lasts anywhere from a few seconds to minutes, and causes extreme distress most times. I used to get it very often as a kid. |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (09/25/02 10:22 PM) SARS Incubator |
I'm seriously considering the British study advocating the "48-hour Day" now. My sleep has been a joke. 2 hours a day, max. It hurts.
In the room the women come and go The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (09/25/02 11:26 PM) Board Leprechaun |
What British study? Where?
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (09/25/02 11:32 PM) SARS Incubator |
I made a mistake when I wrote "study." But here it is:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2097666.stm It's an attractive notion in the very least. In the room the women come and go The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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Alia |
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Posts: 1671 (09/28/02 9:19 PM) Umma Regent |
I wish there were more hours in the day. That is, if I had a never ending supply of those Starbucks Espresso Shots. Mm-mm. It seems all I do is wake up, go to school, come home, do homework, and sleep. I've been looking forward to sleep again, like last year.
That was an interesting article. Was is translated from another language? I found some parts funny. For example: "Studies have shown however that people who only need very small amounts of sleep often show signs of mania." Tracey is not overly pleased with such an explanation. Tracey is not pleased. |
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