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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:02 am
This is the longest I've been up in some time. O_o
Though I probably should turn in soon. ^^;;
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:03 am
I'm not cheating either. I've been up for 21 hours so far, and intend to go all night long...
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:32 am
I've been up over 36 hours a number of times before.
I did it once when I was maybe 7 or so too. Of course, I was sick the day afterwards when I finally did go to bed.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:49 am
same here. I think my record's in the mid-90's, but i can't really remember exactly the time.
Now to search for pictures i prolly will neva use.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:03 am
It's not healthy if it goes on for weeks at a time.
Seriously bad insomnia like that can be fatal. You hallucinate really bad and eventually your brain just gets too stressed out and down you go.
Of course it'd take like 2 weeks straight without sleep to do that, in which case you definitely got something wrong with you so you'd be seeking medical assistance anyways.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:24 am
Actually, chronic insomnia has been known to affect one or two people per generation to the point they don't sleep period.
A taxi driver in new york hasn't slept for about 19 years or so, and nothing serious is affecting him. I wish I could remember his name, as i've done research on insomnia for years in a vain attempt to find what can cure it.
But you are correct, most normal people do tend to get whacky the longer they stay awake. The body tabulates the lack of sleep for up to two weeks, and past that it gets confused. The problem lies in the fact that we really don't know why the brain needs sleep, as all reports tend to be like violence from video games: Each say something different.
The general concensus though is that your body will eventually become a horrible sleeper. It is a myth that you need 8 hours, because more than 20% of the populace sleeps perfectly with only 5-7, and a good chunk are hypersomniac.
Plus, insomnia has about 9 different categorial causes, and there's three different kinds of insomnia as well.
In short, its really a long topic that's really not well understood to this day. Most who complain they have it really don't, and those that do never seek attention.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:37 am
The more physical fatigue I suffer, the more overloaded my brain gets.
I get mental highs when I try to stay up too long. Really trippy. I can't walk straight because I'm disoriented, but I can sit there and figure out code in SL, etc.
I heard about it being fatal in psychology in college. It must've been one of those " in most observed cases " or something. According to it, you can die from not getting any sleep after about 2 weeks time. There was not a single mention of anyone that's been sleepless for 19 years. That seems kinda important, IMO.
Just like World History will cover England against France in the 100 year war, but not mention Duke William and the Battle of Sterling in 1066.
Hell, for that matter, philosophy should mention how Frederick Barbarossa held an empire together through sheer force of will. That says a lot about the power of one's self, etc.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:53 am
Well, as stated, its one person per generation or less.
As I recall, the man eventually quit taking three jobs and settled back down to a "normal" schedule, doing workouts and studying and eventually made up for lost ground. Still, drugs are the most prescribed method of treatment, and most cases of insomnia are all due to environmental circumstances.
Plus, one thing you have to remember is that not everyone in psychology knows everything, and one teacher may have a vastly different bias than another. Its not surprizing they would mention something that proves their ignorance on the subject matter. But from me, the lord of insomnia, I know for a fact that it seems much like running. Once you break your circadean rhythm, you become rather sustainable until you choose to do so. However, if you drink caffiene or eat poorly, the feats of endurance are far harder to maintain. Still, I love creeping my a**l fetish lovin' roomate to hell by just staying up forever and ever and watch him squirm from the thought I can pull that chuck norris joke off, "he doesnt' sleep, he waits".
Makes you rather hard to prank too, as everyone knows that catching you asleep is a trick, and they've got to sleep sometime. Locking the doors with an expert lockpicker isn't very comforting...
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:10 am
Speaking of my mental highs, I am now at the point where nothing's registering as " really there. "
I dub it " dream vision " because it's the same kinda " I can see fine, but I can't tell if I'm seeing what's really there. " vision I have when I'm in a dream.
And that's another interesting thing. I rarely dream nowadays, and when I do, I can almost always tell it's a dream and then I pull off godlike powers in it and destroy whatever world my mind created, etc.
I swear, I can't even dream normal. Freud would be at a loss with me.
The most I learned was outta schools and stuff. Schools teach you knowledge, but actually seeking stuff out is when you expand on intelligence and wisdom.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:12 am
Freud would say you have a sexual fetish of macrophobia, and desire that you could create a sexual partner for your own, but you fear what you create would be destroyed.... or something like that...
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:42 am
Well it's my own head. I'd want control over what my own dream worlds are like.
Maybe when I go to sleep I wanna be in an enchanted meadow, only during a raging tempest with some crazy old man singing Welcome to the Jungle standing next to an armored horse with machine guns strapped to it so I can go riding around, gunning everything down, and then ride off into the hellstorm. YEEHAW! blaugh
If minds could be given a physical manifestation, mine would probably be a labyrinth. Hell, even I get lost...
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:46 am
I'm a dreamwalker, personally. I've encountered numerous occasions where i and another person had the very same dream, dialogue and all. skuld knows all to well of this, though in later years i usually wind up in nothing but a t-shirt in her dreams. I have a good guess why, but at least I have some control over what happens.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:12 am
My dreams are my own. Any outsiders tend to get either get blown away, or faded-to-white, which also tends to happen when I decide I like the dream and don't wanna wake up just yet. Never fails... stressed
Oddly though, I have dreamed of the future.
It's always minor stuff.
For example, I might dream I come on here and you post something very specific. A week or so later, you'll post the exact thing I dreamed about, but I most likely won't notice until later on that I've seen it before.
Another weird thing is I can do some things while awake but so zoned out it's like sleepwalking, only I can do it with things that normally require thinking. Like, I can play Cards on here while being completely zoned out and 5 minutes later snap outta it and not realize what I've just been doing.
I think that might have something to do with those mental highs, because from what I heard, you only stay on auto-pilot until something that requires thinking comes up.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:14 am
You know you like those dreams, Nelo. You always leave out the best parts when you retell that. The ability to fly, the ability to create an orchard at whim in full blossom, and have the breeze gently knock the petals off. You're a hopeless romantic at heart who puts on that seroius cold stone sharade just so people will think you're so smart its intimidating.
Though I wish you would seriously let me have some fun in wonderland too. I may not be your Alice, but jeez, let me play croquet with some flamingos or eat something while I'm there to help re-enact the scenes...
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:17 am
Yeah, premonitions are a b***h for me. I can forsee the grade on a test, but not know what I missed on it.
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