sleep

[file cabinet]

tried to sleep but couldn't now I"m on the computer :(

[BritainOphira]

Sounds slightly more productive than what I did the other night: Gathered every blanket I could find, made a 3 foot deep pile, then attempted to lie under said pile until it was light enough to find my light switch and a decent book.

[Google Monster]

Sucks when you stare at the ceiling for hours while your thoughts go with the flow and change topics every couple minutes :blink: . Then BOOM 8O something pops in your head or some idea and you must write it down then the cycle starts again. :blink:

[jimkopelli]

Occasionally I lay awake and hallucinate instead of dream. It's freaking weird.

[file cabinet]

Occasionally I lay awake and hallucinate instead of dream. It's freaking weird.

are you schizophrenic?
and.. I was able to achieve roughly 7 hours of sleep which is.. uh.. not good enough for me, I would've preferred at least 8 or 10 or 12

sigh

[int]

Occasionally I lay awake and hallucinate instead of dream. It's freaking weird.

Not to me it isn't. When my wife complained about how weird it is that one of our dogs sleeps with her eyes opened, I just laughed.

Do you see patterns, stories, or what? Are they like dreams/sleep in the sense that you feel rested when "awoken" from the "hallucinations?"

[file cabinet]

maybe it's lucid dreaming?

[file cabinet]

o_t, were either of your parents heavy sleepers?

[file cabinet]

no theories. just your sleep patterns were inherited from your father... but you evolved so you sleep deeper.

[Johnny]

I have always had great difficulty enjoying sleep. Of course I do sleep, but my normal pattern is 5 or less hours a day, with the occasional 8-10 hour days on weekends.

How did Edison do it? :lol:

[CosmicDust]

Occasionally I lay awake and hallucinate instead of dream. It's freaking weird.
I've heard that can happen with people who are sleep-deprived. During peak dreaming hours, your system will go into the closest thing to a REM state it can get, and if it's not sleep, then it's hallucination.

Sleep paralysis is another incomplete REM state - your body is still paralyzed to keep you from acting out your dreams, but your dreams have stopped coming.

[cloakable]

Urgh, at the moment I'm really not sleeping well, seven hours staring at the ceiling, three hours asleep. I'm thinking of taking meds for it, as it is starting to affect my life.

[ohnoaninfp]

I only got a few hours last night. Man am I tired. I didn't actaully go to bed until 8:00 this morning. I was working on a project and it took longer than I expected to do it. Oh well, now I am going to go home and get some sleep. Good night! I am becoming nocturnal like my cat.

[howiec]

I alternate. Sometimes I barely sleep then other times I sleep constantly. I've gone for weeks without more than a few hours sleep before. Sometimes I lay awake all night staring at the alarm clock. Occaisionally it's fun, but it can get old.

[jimkopelli]

I'm not schizo, but the voices in my head are... no, not really. It's not lucid dreaming... because the stuff that goes on is usually so freaking stupid I wish I could have smacked a few people... only I don't think of that till I wake up. It's more of a "I'm having a weird-assed dream, but I'm still in my bed, and I know I'm in my bed, but that doesn't stop me from having this dream." I've only had about three... and when I get more time I might post one.

[file cabinet]

the longest I've ever slept is 20 hours.. good times.

[jimkopelli]

Ok, now I have the time, and it is...12:08.
I was out on this campout. It was a Friday night, in (I think) January. And it was freakin' COLD. I was one of the older guys in the troop, so I had my own tent because I set it up myself, and I was the odd one out, mainly because I'd gotten there late. Only one person in a tent = colder than two people. People make good space heaters. Anyway, it was really freaking cold. The sleeping bag I was using is older than I am, and was totally the wrong kind of bag. It was only a three season bag.

Anyway, current events leading up to this... I had been involved in a bridge competition earlier that day. I was a senior, and in the right class, and I liked the teacher, so for extra credit I helped with the registration. The groups that did the competition (within our school, there was a regional, but that was later) ranged from seniors who were in drafting and knew what they were doing, to freshmen who had just made it and the glue was still wet. (Yes, there were freshmen who knew what they were doing and seniors with wet glue. Anyway...) A large percentage of the bridges were utter crap. I wouldn't have trusted some of them to stand up to a sneeze. I'm pretty sure one had bite marks. I had to see whether or not the bridges were within the limits (size, weight, no outriggers, etc) and DQ them if they weren't. I was in a hurry to get a bunch of these done, so I could go see my bridges tested, and I had to leave for another event between the bridge thing and the campout. I managed to wade through all the crap, and see my bridges test. (I placed 3rd and 4th overall, not counting faculty. :thumbup: Yay.) Then I went to this Academic Team (it's a trivia thing) competition (Cubby? Was this the date of the infamous Sandwich Incident with Buzzard? I think it was... Lemme know if you remember. That's worth a seperate post.) and that was weird, because that's what they are. Anyhoo, it was a long, stressful day.

Back to the woods.
Did I mention it was cold? It was cold. I manage to keep all the munchkins from lighting each other on fire (not because they might hurt themselves, but because it was my job... interpret that how you will...) and I finally went to bed aroung 12:30. I had brought a wool blanket to put on to of the sleeping bag, but that was useless because it kept sliding off. So, I was tired, and cold, and trying to sleep... (:zzz: How appropriate. A blue snoozy.) and then people started coming up to me to have more bridges checked. I knew darn well that I was in my tent, freezing my arse off... hell, I could see the other side of my sleeping bag behind them. Scale and proportion were off... because the whole line of indistinct people fit in there with me. The weird bit was that the bridges I was supposed to check were even worse than the ones from earlier. Some of them were only half there, longwise, or missing major pieces, or even in pieces, not even assembled, etc. I had to deal with these weirdos all night. Kept me up. The next day, I had to teach a class on how to cook things on an open fire in the middle of a stupid field with no windbreaks for miles. Brr. Did you know that oranges and eggs freeze? It's hard to break frozen eggs. We had to put things in a cooler to keep them from freezing any more.
The other ones may be posted later. May be.

[Laeskis]

I used to have cycles; the gears wouldn't stop, and I couldn't sleep for 1 or 2 days (maximum was 40 hours awake straight), then I'd sleep 15 -18 hours all at once.
That was terrible and unhealthy.
Now I take tylenol pm, every night...and it works.


edit:maximum was 40 hours awake straight = on a normal cycle.

[Claverhouse]

Fascinating story jim, keep 'em coming.

'Bite marks' ! :rofl: :D



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[jimkopelli]

I swear. There was another one that didn't have any cross-bracing, and the builder had used hot glue (not the best idea). The funny thing about that one was that you could fold it flat, and it would spring back up. They tried to break it, but it kept slipping the block out and bouncing a few feet in the air. I think the dude got a consolation prize.

[Daedalus_daemon]

one of those half-awake hallucinations that has things like carrots dressed like winston churchill dancing around a flaming pig that is playing a trumpet made of chocolate...i mean...ive never had one of those before in my life.

[file cabinet]

I can't get to sleep. bah. I don't think daedalus is lying.......

[NGene]

Occasionally I lay awake and hallucinate instead of dream. It's freaking weird.
Sometimes it happens to me as well.

[jimkopelli]

Care to post one?

[Laeskis]

I've never had a hallucination where unnatural things were dancing around or anything like that
Having been up for 6 days straight once (because I was pissed off) I found that doorframes, windows and walls wouldn't remain straight....everything looked kinda skewed...that's the extent of my hallucinations

[s]

one of those half-awake hallucinations that has things like carrots dressed like winston churchill dancing around a flaming pig that is playing a trumpet made of chocolate...i mean...ive never had one of those before in my life.

Carrots..dressed...as Winston Churchill.... :rofl:

Short bursts of sleep followed by long waking hours, throws me into a manic phase. I can go for hours and will be able to verbally communicate far better than any extrovert alive. I become a walking talking encyclopedia. It is scary to those who know me, but I like it, save for the crash at the end.

[Laeskis]

Short bursts of sleep followed by long waking hours, throws me into a manic phase. I can go for hours and will be able to verbally communicate far better than any extrovert alive. I become a walking talking encyclopedia. It is scary to those who know me, but I like it, save for the crash at the end.

Bursts of sleep won't do that to me. But.
Bursts of alcohol do that to me.
A very stoned girl once said to me while I was drunk:

"You're uh like uh...a cross between Tom Cruise and a Book"

I think I get it.

[s]

Short bursts of sleep followed by long waking hours, throws me into a manic phase. I can go for hours and will be able to verbally communicate far better than any extrovert alive. I become a walking talking encyclopedia. It is scary to those who know me, but I like it, save for the crash at the end.

Bursts of sleep won't do that to me. But.
Bursts of alcohol do that to me.
A very stoned girl once said to me while I was drunk:

"You're uh like uh...a cross between Tom Cruise and a Book"

I think I get it.

Tom Cruise... or his nonunion outsourced equivalent?
:rofl:

Well, yea..uh... "stuff" does that to me, too. :whistle:

[Laeskis]

non-union outsourced equivalent...hmmm....I wonder how much a SCAB for the Movie Industry would get paid....

Ok thespians, on your mark! get set! go on strike!

[s]

non-union outsourced equivalent...hmmm....I wonder how much a SCAB for the Movie Industry would get paid....

Ok thespians, on your mark! get set! go on strike!

I would cross that picket line, "Mr. Tom-Cruise-crossed-with-a-book."

Did she say what kind of book... is it one of those with Fabio on the cover or one of those funny reads for the loo?

[Laeskis]

My gawd! If that's the kinda book (wit Fabio)......
Then I'm going on permanent Hiatus...from existence.

If it's a funny book...well...I suppose that's very tolerable.

At any rate; I can't say what kinda book it was, as I didn't pursue the discussion...I think I went and got some more liquor.

[s]

My gawd! If that's the kinda book (wit Fabio)......
Then I'm going on permanent Hiatus...from existence.

If it's a funny book...well...I suppose that's very tolerable.

At any rate; I can't say what kinda book it was, as I didn't pursue the discussion...I think I went and got some more liquor.

:rofl:

You asked for it, Tom Cruise.

Ah, the musings of a stoner...

edit:
Wait: jimkopelli : did you say you played Bridge? Are you younger than 80?

[jimkopelli]

No, I built a bridge. Those things that go over rivers? Like that, only a foot long and made out of the next heavier wood than balsa. Mine weighed... about 20 grams... and held 1250 times it's own weight. No, I didn't leave out the decimal, it held twelve hundred and fifty times what it weighed. It's a high school physics competition thing.
(80? I've been mistaken for being a lot older than I am before, but that's a new record. Next time, try using context clues.)

[s]

No, I built a bridge. Those things that go over rivers? Like that, only a foot long and made out of the next heavier wood than balsa. Mine weighed... about 20 grams... and held 1250 times it's own weight. No, I didn't leave out the decimal, it held twelve hundred and fifty times what it weighed. It's a high school physics competition thing.
(80? I've been mistaken for being a lot older than I am before, but that's a new record. Next time, try using context clues.)

No, I was teasing. When I read "bridge competition", I thought of bridge, the game... which is not the most popular past time for younguns, such as yourself. Gotcha... building bridges... okay, that is cool.

[Phreon]

Sometimes my mind races and I can't sleep either. I wouldn't call them hallucinations, but I *do* see interesting patterns and wierd visions if I relax while in such a state.

I currently live on about 5 hours of sleep a night, but would feel much better with 8-9. Oddly, if I get too much sleep, I have a throbbing headache the following day (all day). Does this happen to anyone else? I can't take naps during the day either, or I'll wind up with a headache then, as well.

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[jimkopelli]

Yeah, I kinda guessed, but I felt like talking about it. I read the bridge article in the newspaper occasionally... not because I understand what's going on but because I think it's funny.

[s]

Yeah, I kinda guessed, but I felt like talking about it. I read the bridge article in the newspaper occasionally... not because I understand what's going on but because I think it's funny.

Funny. It looks quite complicated doesn't it? :D

I should go to sleep now, but I can't. Damn, how ironic that this thread is about sleep. *sigh*

[jimkopelli]

Goes to show ya.