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Fred Dungan
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Post Number:
964
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 08:09 pm: |   |
I have a hard time sleeping more than a few hours at a time during the night. Consequently, I often nod off in the daytime when I'm at my computer. The first few times it startled me, but now it's getting to be par for the course. The bright side is that I have a plastic spacer where my knee should be and there is no danger of me standing up and walking in my sleep.
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2320
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 08:19 pm: | |
I have the habit of falling asleep at the wheel...at the computer, I'm usually wide awake.
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Pacwriter
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Post Number:
1891
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 08:50 pm: | |
when I read what I have written I fall asleep.
tell ya something 
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D.R. Bennett
Wandering Member
Post Number:
214
Registered: 05-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 11:37 pm: | |
I'm with ya on all three situations.~
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Matt Dinniman
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Post Number:
322
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 12:37 am: | |
Yes. I fall asleep at the computer all the time. Sometimes I'll wake up with 700 extra pages to my manuscript of nothing but:
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
or some other random character. It can be dangerous if you have autosave on because there's a higher a chance of corrupting the file.
I've also screwed up my neck because of it. |
Kevin Yarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
608
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 08:07 am: | |
Last time I fell asleep at the computer I woke up at some strange sex chat room. I had about 10 messages waiting for me and a few emails. Won't do that again.
Kevin- Literary Pseudocriminal |
Stacy Anderson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
124
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:15 am: | |
No I don't fall asleep at the computer! I'm too busy surfing porn. |
Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
968
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:43 am: | |
Stacy may have hit on the solution. If it weren't for spyware, Trojan horses, pop-up ads, and viruses, I might even consider joining her.
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Kevin Yarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
609
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 02:01 pm: | |
I think one of those messages I had was from Stacy. And no Stacy, that pic wasn't real. I had photoshopped it. I had a bleamish I needed to remove.
Kevin- Literary Pseudocriminal |
Stacy Anderson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
127
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 10:36 pm: | |
LOL, Kevin! |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1512
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 04:33 am: | |
We've all been taking this subject far too lightly. Let's analyze things...
We all know that inspiration very often comes to us in our dreams, right?
Scientists tell us that the memories of our dreams may be vivid for a few moments after we wake up but that the images rapidly fade.
You've just had a fabulous dream, even a nightmare might qualify. Your eyes pop open and you're suddenly awake; fully alert. You jump out of bed and engage in your daily fight with the dog over ownership of your bathrobe. You eventually win and slip into your treasured, slobber covered terrycloth garment that would embarrass you if anyone ever saw it and you run down the stairs, the dog at your heels. You pause momentarily as you pass by the kitchen archway to ponder the need to brew a pot of energy, but inspired by your dream, you push on saying to yourself, "I gotta write this down before I forget... I gotta write this down.. I gotta write... I go..."
It's gone, baby. Gone forever. You're NEVER going to be able to recall it and only a total idiot would ever think they could. Your warm, comfy bed has just cost you the book of the decade or maybe even the century.
Therefore it is not only acceptable to sleep in front of your computer, if you consider yourself a serious writer, it is mandatory. |
LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1850
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:40 am: | |
ha ha ha, Dennis. Cute, and mostly true. But I have that scenario beat. I keep a pen and paper on my nightstand and scribble extremely quick notes that will trigger my memory come daylight.
I don't usually fall asleep at my computer unless I am either really sick or haven't slept more than a few hours in days. Otherwise, when I start to yawn, I find a place to stop, then hit the sack.
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
977
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 05:19 am: | |
In 1971 I took a Psychobiology course at University of California, Irvine, in REM sleep management. The gist of the course was that we wired test subjects to a machine and had them go to sleep. When rapid eye movement was recorded (which indicates dream sleep), we woke up the subjects and asked them to relate their dream. Some did this better than others. Our conclusion at the end of the study was that the sooner we woke the test subjects following REM, the more they were able to remember. The trick was to transfer the short term memory to long term memory. Those few test subjects that mastered this skill never forgot their dreams and could describe them in intimate detail days or weeks later.
I outsmarted myself. Although warned by the instuctor not to do so, I could not resist trying this for myself at home. It worked. The upside is that I usually remember my dreams and the downside is that I rarely sleep for more than two hours at a time without waking up. If you want, you can teach yourself to do this. However, I don't recommend it because you will never get a full night's rest again. Also, there are some dreams that are best forgotten, such as the red-tinged evil nightmare that I had when I overdosed on morphine at the VA hospital.
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1851
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 01:55 pm: | |
Dang, Fred. That must be my problem.
Oh, and another side effect of this "training"? Sleep walking. You wake, but not all the way so that you can't really write it down. Didn't think much of it until I was told I have been stoking the fire during the night.
Watch out for that morphine, buddy. It'll send you on some wild trips.
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Kevin Yarbrough
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Post Number:
615
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 08:22 am: | |
Even if I forget my dreams after waking I can usually spend the rest of the day making myself remember it. I might not get the whole dream, but can get the majority of it.
A lot of my book ideas come from my dreams. Although I will say that most of them are twisted so what does that mean about me?
Kevin- Literary Pseudocriminal |
Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
115
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 07:33 pm: | |
Never fell asleep at the computer,,, but today i took a long nap with my girl (picture left) curled up on my chest. How's this for being a daddy's girl. When i nap in the afternoon it is bright at the couch area, so I put a pillow over my head. About two months ago Isabella started insisting on having a pillow over her head while she slept in the afternoons too. Now at night the only way we can get her to sleep is to sit her on the couch Usually leaning against me) with a pillow on her chest. Litterally she could be running around the house laughing but when I call her and show her the couch pillow, she'll climb up next to me, layback and pull the pillow to where she likes it and she will be out in seconds.
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D.R. Bennett
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Post Number:
234
Registered: 05-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 10:00 pm: | |
Has anyone here ever started dreaming while totally awake?
I don't mean 'a daydream'...I mean an actual imaginary process while you were
still conscious?
Of course, this may include being in another dimension (state of mind)~
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Harry Simenon
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Post Number:
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Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 01:41 pm: | |
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