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life and sleep and person
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So my new job is awesome, I go in at 11 and get out at 7. I stay up till 2, 3 or 4am and sleep til 9 or 9:30. I am one of those people who hate to sleep cause it wastes my time, but when I go too long with out at least 4 hours of GOOD sleep, I really start to get weird.
I've been wondering for a while what makes a person weird, I mean like so weird they are scary to you just talking or looking. I hadn't met anyone like this until last year and the dude is literally scary to me. The way his eyes move, the way he talks and drives, everything about the dude is abnormal to me.
Since meeting the guy, I've been very self conscious about myself when I'm so tired I can hardly have a conversation with people. I start thinking they are looking at me the same way I looked at that weird dude.
Today at my new job particularly, one of the ladies in the office who I really enjoy having around cause she's so fun and happy, came to me today and was wanting to sit and joke for a bit, but I was so tired I really couldn't do anything besides get my work done and ended our small conversation briefly with a very awkward , "ha ha, that true."
Does sleep fuck with your life and who you are? Or do people think I'm weird anyway and I just can notice it when I'm tired? | |
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nightowl
well, you live in the city that never sleeps.( i'm assuming that BX means maybe brooklyn? or am i wrong) i used to live in nyc & there is SO much to do & see that i thought sleep was a waste of time too.
people probably dont think you're weird (unless you are) but when you're sleep deprived you're just more paranoid.
sleep-depravation experiments showed that people can even hallucinate if they go without sleep long enough.
08/09/07
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hardvoltnine
hahaha, I've done the hallucination thing way to many times to be good for myself.BX is Bronc, I'll be back in Brooklyn soon tho, I like that place much more. BX is from the bus, I think that's why every one uses that abreviation, don't know for sure.
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nightowl
did u get hit by that freak tornado, or drown in the subway?
it was like something out of that movie "the day after tomorrow"
i mean new york isnt kansas
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jack123
the lack of sleep is fucking with you, it's making you think that you're being weird and then you act weird by trying not to act weird.
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Jim
I work in the psychiatric wing of a hospital, and it really altered my perspective on what's weird. There's the kind of weird that makes life better (the kind of people nice women like to joke with) and the kind of weird that people can't be around (naked and writhing on the floor because God told them to)
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hardvoltnine
Jim, I don't think I'm thank weird, but sometimes I don't have that relation to the rest of the world. It derives from the thought that I exist, but there is no evidence that others actually do. So those times people seem like animals that I live with and deal with on a daily basis. Its like a logical hole I get stuck in.
Night owl, AHAHHAHAHAHAHA, this city shuts down when ever a little baby rain storm comes through. I've been trying to figure it out. STL seems pretty tough when it comes to weather, I remember in grade school that every time it snowed and iced and lights were off, I'd hope not to go to school, but it was always my school that was still having regular attendance. Most of the people at my work didn't come in, but my train was still running so I made it on time, just had to squish a bit cause they obviously canceled the express trains.
Also Jim, God may actually exist, and who is society to judge some one for what god tells them to do. OK if its harmful to others, maybe it should be controlled, but really most animals don't act on logic, why should people be padded if they act on instinct? (I know why they are, but its more of a think about it question)
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yghartsyrt
sleep deprivation is like a huge monster crawling upon you from behind. i had times where i like only had 2 0r 3 hours of sleep for weeks.
yeah it makes you feel weird. besides. i think everybody has the feeling of being alienated to just everything and everyone (thus feeling weird and thinking of having lost connection to the rest) i think that's pretty normal. though some feel more often like this, some just don't listen to that feeling.
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thehydrax
You are probably suffering from long-term sleep deprivation. It has a way of sneaking up on you. You need to get some proper sleep
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thehydrax
I once went 3 weeks without sleep (like maybe 2 hours a day) and it was fucking horrible. I went seriously crazy
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jdg
i get 8 to 10hrs a night. its great
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Zanf
In my teens & 20's, I used to sleep very little because of being loaded on drugs a lot of the time and that I used to have incredibly powerful nightmares due to anxiety & stress. I used to be very reluctant to sleep just like when little kids do it and end up very ratty. That alongside my stubbornous and at times, self-righteousnous, I was a complete weird nightmare myself.
Now I am free of [most] stresses in my life that used to affect me and sleep very well and I am lot more mentally balanced, inward and outwardly. I still do only sleep very little, relatively to most people - I goto bed @ 1-2am and get up @ 7am, but this is how I am: Im very mentally overactive and find it hard to switch off [unless stoned].
Everyone has idosyncracies: its just that some, in others, you find endearing and likeable while others drive you completely mad, making you want to kill that person.
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cartesia
sleep-depravation experiments showed that people can even hallucinate if they go without sleep long enough.
I pulled an all nighter studying once and the next morning my textbook was showing internet posts from a local forum instead of science facts... spazz
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djugel
I feel off today.... a whole week of get 5 hours of sleep a night even catches up to you..
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mold
hardvoltnine said: "I don't think I'm thank weird, but sometimes I don't have that relation to the rest of the world. It derives from the thought that I exist, but there is no evidence that others actually do. So those times people seem like animals that I live with and deal with on a daily basis. Its like a logical hole I get stuck in."
thats pretty weird.
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RogerRoger
I'm weird for the opposite reason: I can't seem to stay awake longer than about 20 hours. I'll just pass out wherever I am if I try to push it further.
What I have noticed for the time endured was that my senses seem to react differently like I'm underwater or something. What's that claim about going 24 hours without sleep is like being legally intoxicated?
I'd agree with zanf in that it depends on how active your mind is. Even while you sleep, your mind is active obviously, just in a way unrelated to processing sensory input and logical thought processes. It's not too hard to believe that your creativity never really shuts off, and I certainly agree with that.
HV9, to expand on your ideas of ontology, the mind works by establishing meaning to sensory input before it can create abstracts, and hence, before it can create thought. It is certainly true that your subjective existance, your feelings without any objective thought, are irrefutable and will always hold true for the moment in time in which they occured. But if everything else is objective, your mind still must acquire meaning to something before it can even be processed, so that alone may be enough to be certain your environs do indeed exist.
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