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Oxy
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Sleep overrated?...perhaps...
#7642570 - 11/16/07 12:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Too tried to sleep...can't do much...ahhh...it would be nice to smoke a bowl...or two...or three...
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642611 - 11/16/07 12:37 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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....
or four...

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or any at that matter...
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: frisky_]
#7642624 - 11/16/07 12:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yes...but unfortunately I'm not at a place where that can take place....so......::sigh::
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642675 - 11/16/07 12:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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sleep is definitely NOT overrated.
I was only getting about 4-6 hours of sleep (not even good sleep, more like 4-6 hours out of 24 were spent laying in bed.) from last spring up to a month ago.
I felt so... fuzzy all the time. I don't have much memory of that time. I was having a hard time staying focused at work. I was in mental hell. No matter how hard I tried to focus I couldn't and it was SO FRUSTRATING. It seeped into every facet of my life. I was so stressed and constantly felt like I was playing "catch-up". I drank just about every energy drink under the sun, trying to find one that "worked". but the problem was they were PHYSICALLY working, my mind was just too fuzzy to realize it. so I never slept straight through the night. It seemed like I'd drift off then wake up. drift off... then wake up... the caffeine still going through my body.
I had a lot of physical problems too. CONSTANT back pain. Headaches everyday. High blood pressure. A lot of nausea. Muscle cramps. Panic Attacks. I actually was diagnosed with anxiety and put on medicine... but the medicine made me jittery and even more sick... and "disconnected".
I was offered a better job... and on my final interview they said they had a new shift open- it was 2pm-midnight. At first i thought it sounded shitty, but then they said I'd get 10% more for working it, so I took it.
What a difference. Now I usually sleep from 2/3am through 10/11am. I get a full 8 hours. I fall asleep when I'm sleepy and I wake up when I've had sufficient rest- not because an annoying alarm clock is going off. I'm able to wake up naturally instead of jarred awake.
now I know what you're thinking. "why didn't you just go to sleep to allow yourself time to wake up"... the truth is my body wouldn't. I just could not go to sleep at 9 or 10pm- no matter how exhausted I was.
I think my natural rhythm is to stay up late and sleep in late. although I'm not sleeping in too bad- just till 10 or 11.
it only took about a week for me to feel like a human again. It's only been about 6 weeks since I started this shift, so every day I feel better and better. I drank a red bull and vodka a couple weeks ago... and that's the last time I remember drinking an energy drink.
sleep isn't something to fuck with.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: StonedShroom]
#7642689 - 11/16/07 01:08 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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now I know what you're thinking. "why didn't you just go to sleep to allow yourself time to wake up"...
Actually i was thinking..."what the fuck! it sounds like this guy is on speed and needed to let some stuff off his chest..."
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642713 - 11/16/07 01:26 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sleep is very important, not how much, but what kind.
During sleep your brain creates vital chemicals needed to keep you in line.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Rustifer]
#7642715 - 11/16/07 01:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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shut the fuck up rustifer!
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642719 - 11/16/07 01:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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im smoking CONES right now
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Psilobuds]
#7642722 - 11/16/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm smoking CRACK right now.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Rustifer]
#7642734 - 11/16/07 01:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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hahahaha! crack...and what the fuck are cones??
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642736 - 11/16/07 01:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yah dude, what the fuck are cones.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642740 - 11/16/07 01:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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nope.
the closest thing to speed I've ever done was adderall... which is pretty fuckin amazing since I live in methlahoma. and I don't remember doing it during my stress time. I only dabbled with a bottle of about 25 pills my sister left in my mom's car... which found it's way to me last Christmas. It only lasted a month.
My hell started around March when I picked up a second job... and a project I was leading at my day job picked up full steam- right about the time my best friend broke up with her girlfriend, who happened to be my director (supervisor's supervisor's supervisor) who took everything out on me and used to tell my friend that she was going to fire me... but she never did... instead she would watch me like a hawk and she had these crazy days where she would just fucking lay into me and tell me what a disappointment I was for 2-3 hours in her office. It was like everything she wanted to tell my friend she tried to skew it so it somehow had something remotely to do with my job and would tell me... oh and this whole time i had to act like I didn't know about the relationship between her and my friend. eventually she brainwashed my friend and ruined that friendship. and that was one of my BEST friends. I knew her before I had that job. It's not my fault it was some freak coincidence.
It totally sucked to have someone you thought was your best friend choose a relationship with a psycho bitch over a friendship she had for almost 2 years before aforementioned bitch.
Last Jan my grandpa died, so I had to go to Texas for the funeral, missed a week of work. As soon as I got out of roam my phone BLEW UP with texts from my friend... my director told her I was telling everyone about their relationship. I told her I wasn't and I hadn't even been at work that week b/c I was at my grandpa's funeral. My friend didn't believe me and told me to fuck off... only to break up with the stupid bitch 3 months later.
it was fucked up and I'm sure if I wanted to sue I could and I'd win... it was a VERY hostile work environment... but now that I don't work there my friend and I have been talking a bit, rebuilding a friendship. I figure I'd be the better person and try to salvage an old friend instead of pursue a lawsuit.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: StonedShroom]
#7642756 - 11/16/07 01:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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wow...thats some crazy ass shit...sorry it happened...i hate stupid bitches as well...but what did any of that have to do with the speed reference? i don't know...I'm thinking its 247 were I'm at and your talking as if the caffeine energy drinks you used to drink did some permanent damage...
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642774 - 11/16/07 01:55 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah, I'm in CST too.
I could blame it on taurine overload, but I have to admit, I'm still a tad bitter about the whole thing. Mostly with the director b/c she's like 47 and my friend and I are in our early 20s... you'd think she'd be more mature.
sometimes I just want to ruin her life by suing the shit out of the company- but I just keep telling myself the universe will work things out.
I got a better job that pays more and allows me to get rest... while the program she's director over crumbles more and more everyday. I still have friends who work there and they told me they are slowly moving her business away.
uhm, I dunno what it had to do about speed.
yeah.
bedtime.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: StonedShroom]
#7642783 - 11/16/07 01:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yup yup...for me too! Night!
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642793 - 11/16/07 02:02 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quite agree
Of the top of anyone's head, are there any srs repercussions to running, staying up all night, then running again?
I really want to do a dawn run
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Oh man, have any of you guys had the pleasure of blacking out during a period of extended sleep deprivation? About a year ago, I was going to school full time and working nearly full time (I thought I was Superman), leaving me time for four or five hours of sleep per night. I held up pretty well for a month or two, though I was experiencing constant fatigue, occasional dizziness, impaired memory, and the inability to concentrate or perform basic thought processes (like burning out for months at a time, minus the high). So, after several months of this, I was in class, working as usual (I think I was kneading dough - this was culinary arts college by the way), and suddenly the chatter around me started to echo and become more and more distant, I couldn't feel my limbs and my vision slowly tunneled until all of the light I could see was condensed into a blinding speck of white light in the center of an otherwise completely black room... and then I woke up on the floor.
The only other time I've blacked out was during an air cadet's parade assembly, the kind of parade where we were forced to stand rigid, without moving a muscle, for several hours at a time, while our training Officers yapped on about God knows what, until the blood flow to our heads knocked enough kids down to the ground (they probably had betting pools as to who could talk the longest and knock the most kids down). Anyways,
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Oxy]
#7642963 - 11/16/07 04:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sleep is immensely important to maintaining a sound body and a clear head. Even if you only get 3 hours of sleep a night, as long as it is quality sleep.. you are good. I've gone for up to 4-5 days without sleep (without the use of drugs) (time pretty much becomes a disturbance at that point). It's fun, but it is also very not fun. Yeah you hallucinate etc, but that's only because your brain is trying to dream but you're still awake! Everything becomes surreal, your motor functions are impaired, your ability to concentrate on anything is fucked to hell... you NEED sleep. Your body needs sleep to regenerate and your brain needs sleep to defragment itself and process the insane amounts of information it picks up every day.
Now missing a night of sleep here and there is no big deal, I do it all the time. But you gotta sleep eventually or you just go crazy.
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Re: Sleep overrated?...perhaps... [Re: Shroomism]
#7642984 - 11/16/07 04:44 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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a cone is a 'bowl'
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