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Post by Patrick on Oct 10, 2008 14:31:38 GMT
Couldn't get to sleep last night. So, about 3:30 just came downstairs and sat at the 'puter for a bit. Finally crashed out at around 10:30 until 1pm. Everything is a little surreal!
Used to do this a lot twenty years ago - Friend of mine at college had odd sleep patterns and sometimes as we got later and later up each evening would just stay up all night - trying to save sleep until the night afterwards to "reset the body clock" Usually worked. I remember one day doing a whole day's classes then going down to see a friend at the Local Radio Station in the next town along - he worked from 2 - 6am. We went straight to the station and back, luckily I only had a couple of lectures the following day before being able to crash for a bit - but I just remember periods of complete lucidness followed by moments where you just felt "drunk", going up and down like a biorhythm graph.
I've heard that lack of sleep leads to hallucinations! There was a French film on one evening where this chap had walked around Paris for three days - and not slept - his hallucinations Took the form of being able to make everybody "disappear" One minute he's on a crowded Metro - the next - there's no-one. Powerful stuff sleeplessness.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 10, 2008 16:11:25 GMT
When I woz deep into the drugs culture, 72 hour sessions were the order of the day...by the end of a long weekend, you didn't know if it was the drugs or the sleep deprivation that was spinning you out like a crazed mofo. Happy days. AH
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Post by Patrick on Oct 12, 2008 14:11:06 GMT
Friend of a friend thought he could still ride his motorbike in such state. Needless to say he came off it after trying to avoid an imaginary figure standing in the middle of the road!
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