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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    Switch A goes into circuit B....zzzzzzz

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    in my dreams i'm an african dictator with a machete and a red beret killing all the people that said dumb shit to me in person and the internet

    so it's like ugly people from michigan and cartoonish approximations of internet users and angry darwinists from twitter

    or i dream about fucking my old lady. i blush about that tho

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    i get a hard on during both

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Fandeathis wrote:
    I have a very hard time falling asleep. My mind never wants to turn off or even slow down. I just lay there and try to think of nothing for hours until I finally doze off.

    This is my occasional problem. Brain just doesnt want to stop. I've got a few different methods, they dont always work but maybe youll have better luck.

    1) Shut your eyes. Focus on the back of your eyelids. you will see shades of black and blue. Focus on one particular blob of color. keep that one thing in your head. focus so hard that your brain doesnt get distracted. think of it as a screensaver, watch one point and this can sometimes get your brain preoccupied to the point that it gets bored.

    2) Go online and find an IQ test or some other quiz and do that. if you can get your brain to stop randomly finding things to think about then focus on the test for a bit. Basically if your like me and your heads just jumping from one thing to another then if you can get it to reduce the number to 1 it can slow down and stop easier.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    jerk off, get into a fight or don't drink coffee

    boom you're asleep

    or whiskey. whiskey rocks too

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    All your solutions (except maybe the whiskey) are dependant on you not being physically tired. I've been exhausted physically and my brain just wouldnt stop randomly coming up with shit to think about.

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  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    I haven't heard my alarm clock in months.

    I have a superhuman power to always wake up 5 minutes before I my alarm is supposed to go off. Doesn't matter how early it is, I just do it.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Thats nothing. My cat has the supernatural power to wake me up to be fed 20 minutes before my alarm goes off.
    She's very polite about it however.

    "I'll just choose this moment to drag some change across the dresser"
    "Hum, I know ive rarely ever wanted to sit on his lap but nows a good time to try."

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    BTW, this seems like a good spot to ask.

    I've recently had to work for a few weeks at a different time schedule which has me sleeping much earlier then standard so to help me relax i would take a time release meletonin tablet about 20-30 minutes before my sleep time. It worked pretty well as it could relax me and to a small degree make me tired without any groggy feelings in the morning.

    Now that im back on my schedule I occasionally will have trouble sleeping but am afraid to take one of these or any sleeping medication because by the time i think about it i only have about a window of 6 or less hours to sleep before waking for work and the medications say 7-8 hours sleep expected.

    So my question is this...if you take half a pill will it still relax you or want you to sleep but half as long as the med advertises or will it just not work at all being too diluted. (I suppose there are different answers to sleeping pills vs meletonin). I just want to make sure the groggy feeling does not carry over.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote:

    it is basically the best thing.

    It really is.
    Mysst wrote:
    I design and build spacecraft in my mind because wiring is boring as shit and knocks me right the fuck out

    I do something like this but instead just come up with an idea for a story then make an entire universe surrounding it. Tires my brain out at the end of the day and then I'm out like a light.

  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    FirmSkater wrote:
    I haven't heard my alarm clock in months.

    I have a superhuman power to always wake up 5 minutes before I my alarm is supposed to go off. Doesn't matter how early it is, I just do it.

    it's because you've settled into a routine. there's a part of your brain that is pretty much the "brain's watchdog" (can't remember the specifics, may have something to do with your limbic system/amygdala[a part of the limbic system]). basically this watchdog part of the brain is responsible for the fight or flight response, but the reason why you wake up at night when you hear something out of the ordinary. you may have trouble going to sleep with a squeaky fan, but it will become a part of your routine and you get used to it and can sleep. later, if somebody is breaking into your house and you wake up to the sound of breaking glass -- that's your brain telling you that something is out of the ordinary and you're in danger. it's been a while since i've covered this material, but i'm pretty sure that's right. of course, there might be other areas of the brain that play a role in this as well, but that's the long and short of it.

    but because you've developed this routine, and you know when to expect this alarm, you preemptively wake up. i do this too, as i'm sure a lot of people do. personally, and this is speculation, i think it's because i dread my alarm clock, so i'm ready to wake up at whatever time, but i despise hearing the alarm go off. so i wake up earlier to avoid that. hearsay, nonsense, theory, whatever. hope you found this useful/interesting.

    and in case anybody was wondering or cared, the dude who died od'd on painkillers.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    i haven't slept or taken any drugs for two days

    i think i might just straight up die

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    i have been fucking miserable since the day i after i turned 21

    my heart is constantly pounding, it wears me out

    i want to cry so badly

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    swill that sounds pretty bad

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I was prevented from sleeping last night by the most intense thunderstorm of recent memory

    lightning going off literally every second

    why can't these things happen when I'm more of a mood to watch them

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    storms when you are just lying in bed are awesome

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    @Swill what did you do for your 21st? Did you party too hard?

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    i did not party too hard, i was a weak individual who had to pretend otherwise

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    storms when you are just lying in bed are awesome

    Yeah storms are really cool. I love storms at all times.

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    whelp. I couldn't get to sleep until around 9am and then I slept til 5pm.

    crap.

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  • peterdevorepeterdevore Registered User regular
    There is this dream I had. It started out with me and somebody I don't know but who felt like a friend running from a hit squad by car. He says 'I know a place where they won't come'. We drive up a snowy mountain in one of those snow cat tracked things and come to a sandstone cathedral like building. We enter and are welcomed by an important looking person in a uniform standing between the benches. I look to his right and there is another chamber. The floor is littered with tiny bones, regularly arranged on each tile. I see a severely rotted zombie walking over them, well only a leg and thigh. On this leg dozens of tiny green irised eyes open and stare out blanky. I look at my own foot, standing between the bones myself and now see the same tiny eyes opening all over it.
    I fall backwards in shock. A fat naked man comes over and calmly takes my foot and presses his fingers deep inside in what I guess were the sockets where the eyes were. He says something reassuringly like 'you are one of us now'. This however does not freak me out, I take it all in and a warm feeling comes over me. I can't remember how the dream continues exactly but some parts are looking for others who were initiated/part of the same group and feeling very connected and purposeful. And there was a restaurant with a ceiling and several floors above made up from mattresses which i all crawled down through.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    storms are terrible

  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    Solar wrote:

    Yeah storms are really cool. I love storms at all times.
    last night's storm was ferocious
    pounding rain and lighting every 2 or 3 seconds

    it was glorious I loved it.

    also if you can't sleep just tug one out

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    see if it wasn't like five AM I would have gone out on the roof and taken it all in

    it had that beautiful kind of thunder that sounds like a zipper and then BAM AN EXPLOSION

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    Yeah I just scrambled around the house closing all the windows

    didn't need to turn lights to get around either, the lighting had that covered

    and it dropped the temperature down to a reasonable-for-sleeping level

    it owned!

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    you are going to be in a high school haunted by dead scorpions

  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    I hope one of these nights my dreams will NOT be about highschool, venomous animals, haunted houses, or some combination of the three

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    I wasnt the one who thought building a school on an ancient scorpion burial ground was a brilliant plan, why do I have to suffer?

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    you mean yours wasn't?

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  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    Reading the posts about storms made me super sleepy

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    I know bathtubs are becoming more of a rarity, but I would suggest taking a hot bath if you can.
    Fill it up so it's really hot, but still barely manageable. Then slowly sink yourself in and let your body adjust to the heat.
    It's pretty relaxing and tiring, so try not to faint. Plenty of folks have set up a exquisite bath only to drown in their sleep, or break their face from falling after getting out. Try not to think about those people.

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    you are going to be in a high school haunted by dead scorpions

    Man, a scorpion can't kill a dude, gotta think bigger.

  • MateyMatey see, look how sad i am now give me your wallet.Registered User regular
    I had a dream one time about Dante's Virgil leading me through the 9 circles of Hell. In each circle, different family members were tortured for the various crimes they had committed in life. I think I was like 8 at the time.

    Then around that same time period I had a dream about wondering through a water painting styled after dia de los muertos. I was in a stadium and people were standing around, but the dream was completely silent.

    dreams be so crazeh

  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    I've always wondered how good it feels to sleep next someone you like like.

    It must be awesome in the winter.

    i hate sleeping next to people. i never get a good night's sleep because i keep rolling into a person and waking up. if i get married we are doing separate beds like a 50s sitcom.

  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    I know bathtubs are becoming more of a rarity, but I would suggest taking a hot bath if you can.
    Fill it up so it's really hot, but still barely manageable. Then slowly sink yourself in and let your body adjust to the heat.
    It's pretty relaxing and tiring, so try not to faint. Plenty of folks have set up a exquisite bath only to drown in their sleep, or break their face from falling after getting out. Try not to think about those people.

    never taking a bath again :|

  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    come on, even bugs bunny knows how to appreciate a good hot bath.
    http://youtu.be/UqqUslNoCFc?t=1m51s

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    big spoon all day

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    storms are terrible
    terribly excellent.
    i hate sleeping next to people. i never get a good night's sleep because i keep rolling into a person and waking up. if i get married we are doing separate beds like a 50s sitcom.
    Have you done it much? You'd be amazed how easy it is to get used to it.

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I could never sleep beside another person

    how could I guarantee they wouldn't try to smother me as soon as I dozed off

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
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