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jdg
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The SleepING Item.
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Jul 4 06:32 UTC 1993 |
The following comments come from Item 27, The SkiING Item
From response 15. The God of Silence (vidar) mentioned:
...I only get one hour of sleep a night. What's the point in going
to bed. Better yet, what's the point of sleeping if I can only get an
hour?
From response 16. Rane Curl (rcurl) replied with:
Sounds like a good starting point for a sleepING item. I don't know, vidar,
what is the point? Perhaps your brain only needs an hour to catch up on
its record keeping and filing.
I think Rane is right. It's high time for a sleepING item. It's 2:32 AM,
and I can't sleep. It's two hot, and I'm bothered by hay fever, or, as
my doctor says, "Allergic Rhinitis." But then, he makes a lot of money to
use big words.
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danr
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response 1 of 60:
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Jul 4 13:07 UTC 1993 |
I bicycled about 40 miles and did about two hours of yard
work in yesterday's humidity, so I was in no shape to stay up late.
In fact, I crawled onto a futon in my basement around 9:30 pm and
promptly fell asleep.
I'm an early to bed, early to rise kind of person and need 7-8 hours
of sleep.
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aa8ij
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response 2 of 60:
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Jul 4 20:52 UTC 1993 |
I too, could not sleep so I just played the hell out of my nintendo and
kept my cool rag nearby. I fell asleep at 6am and slept until 1.
I really need 7 to 10 hours and cannot sleep when it is this humid.
there should be laws against high humidity.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 60:
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Jul 5 05:13 UTC 1993 |
I've recently decreased my sleep time from ca. 7 hours to 5+, by staying
up later. I seem to need the "quiet time" after the family has retired,
to read, compute, grex, etc (but no machine tools...). I do tend to doze
off during the day, though. I probably have what would be called a
"sleep disorder". For heat and humidity, we use a fan - until it gets
like today, when the central air goes on (first time in 1993, though).
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vidar
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response 4 of 60:
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Jul 5 17:56 UTC 1993 |
I've just decreased my sleeping time from 1 hour to about 1/2 an hour.
My body just doesn't like sleep, I guess.
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rcurl
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response 5 of 60:
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Jul 5 22:29 UTC 1993 |
You should contact a sleep laboratory, and volunteer for their studies.
I have never heard of anyone getting by on as little as 1 hour of sleep
a day.
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katie
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response 6 of 60:
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Jul 5 22:33 UTC 1993 |
Most people who think they're only sleeping as little as 1 hr a day are
sleeping more.
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vidar
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response 7 of 60:
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Jul 6 13:18 UTC 1993 |
Think? I KNOW I'm only sleeping 1 hr. a day. I look at the clock when I go
to sleep and when I wake up only an hr. has passed.
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rcurl
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response 8 of 60:
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Jul 6 14:24 UTC 1993 |
Do you check the calendar too?
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scg
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response 9 of 60:
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Jul 6 20:19 UTC 1993 |
I couldn't sleep very well last night, I didn't get to bed until two am, and
couldn't get to sleep until four. Then, I woke up around eight and couldn't
get back to sleep. I'm not feeling too tired, though, for some reason. My
sleep lately has been about nine or ten hours, because it is vacation, but
during the school year, I usually get by on ablut six and a half.
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vidar
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response 10 of 60:
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Jul 6 22:40 UTC 1993 |
Re #8: Yep.
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vidar
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response 11 of 60:
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Jul 8 14:03 UTC 1993 |
Last night I didn't sleep at all. My body managed somehow to store the
information while I was consious. I think pretty soon I'm going to turn into a
Living Zombie, unlike the undead, but still a little mindless.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 60:
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Jul 8 14:25 UTC 1993 |
Don't drive.
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n8nxf
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response 13 of 60:
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Jul 8 18:12 UTC 1993 |
Maybe you are asleep when you are awake.
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rcurl
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response 14 of 60:
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Jul 9 00:31 UTC 1993 |
Since here we are with a sleepING item, I'd like to hear if folk have
particular techniques for getting to sleep, when anxiety, worry, coffee,
etc interfer? The only intentional technique that I have found to work
for me, is to use the word "sleep" as a mantra. I suppose I could use
the word "sheep", but that doesn't have much to do with sleep, except
apocryphally. Perhaps I am using a form of self-suggestion.
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vidar
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response 15 of 60:
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Jul 9 01:54 UTC 1993 |
How about an muscular person, punching me in the head? That's about the only
thing that would work for me. Asleep while I'm awake? I don't think that's
possible.
ould work for me. Asleep while I'm awake? I don't think that's
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danr
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response 16 of 60:
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Jul 9 02:08 UTC 1993 |
vidar must've nodded off there. :)
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vidar
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response 17 of 60:
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Jul 9 13:25 UTC 1993 |
No, I hit ^D on the wrong line. I was perfectly awake. Anyway the last
word would have been "possible."
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minx
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response 18 of 60:
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Aug 3 11:26 UTC 1993 |
I've found a couple of methods to help me sleep, on the rare occasions that I
actually *want* to indulge in such a wasteful activity. <g>
The first is a relaxation technique I learned some years ago - starting with
your toes, slowly tense and relax, then do the same with the feet, then with
the feet and the calves, etc., until you've involved your entire body with the
tense/relax routine. Another thing I used to help me sleep involved
visualisation while listening to the radio set at a low volume - picture
something similar to a player piano scroll in your mind, with the words to
whatever song that happens to be on the radio at the time on it. I found it
to be a good mental exercise, and it got my mind off of whatever was helping
keep me awake.
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n8nxf
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response 19 of 60:
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Aug 3 11:52 UTC 1993 |
We were told about this while my wife and I were going to one of those
silly classes you go to when your expecting your first child. My wife
uses it quite a bi
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vidar
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response 20 of 60:
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Aug 12 16:20 UTC 1993 |
I actually got 13 hours of sleep last night. Help me! I've wasted 13 hours
of my life! How do I get it back?!
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n8nxf
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response 21 of 60:
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Aug 13 12:53 UTC 1993 |
Bummer dude! I like to sleep. It gives my mind time to exercise.
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mta
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response 22 of 60:
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Aug 13 18:20 UTC 1993 |
I love to sleep! I could, and sometimes do, sleep 16 hours at a time.
It's a "good" way to deal with depression, with boredom, and with being
tired. Nothing feels as sensuous and curling into a bed that knows
my contours, feeling clean, cool sheets wrapped around me and a gentle
breeze from an open window or fan caressing my face--and to feel
sleep come and touch me and relax me...
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm -- I think I'll go take a nap.
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chelsea
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response 23 of 60:
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Aug 13 23:30 UTC 1993 |
Geez, you make that sound wonderful!
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scg
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response 24 of 60:
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Aug 14 04:41 UTC 1993 |
16 hours of sleep! What an utter waste of time. I find if I get much over
eight hours I never wake up. I may feel better rested than if I had gotten
seven hours, or six hours or something, but I seem to be more productive
on fewer hours. Oh well, its summer... Who needs to be productive.
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