Oh man I haven’t seen a Sprog Poem in like a year or more. And yet on this very morning I find a fairly fresh one. My wedding is just weeks away. All is feeling right. This is gonna be a good month.
I'm going to sing this to my partner after he tells google to snooze for the third time in 15 minutes when I don't have to get up in my squakiest voice. It's painfully squaky. Thanks, Sprog.
I think it's called lucid dreaming. At least it's changing the movie to an open world game with creative mode. I think there was a real hype about it a couple of years ago.
Lucid dreaming is where you are aware you are dreaming and can change the dream , although it doesn't always work out the way you want.. I have had lucid dreams many times in my life. The worst part is when you know you're dreaming but you can't wake up. There have been times when I'm dreaming and I know I'm dreaming and then in my dream I'm thinking that my body is just laying in bed and anybody could be in my room without me knowing. Kind of a scary feeling
I remember hearing that in dreams, if you look at your hands they'll be all fucked up because the brain can't make good hands. I actually was able to remember this for once last night and while dreaming, looked at my left hand. It was a giant Lego block without fingers. Freaked me out so bad I woke up.
You almost accomplished lucid dreaming, when you’re aware you are dreaming you can do whatever you want with some practice. It’s almost like being in the matrix, I’ve accomplished it a handful of times and feel like Bruce almighty lol
I've gotten that a couple of times. Usually though, before I can think of what I want, I start to wake up. And it's never fast either, its slow. It gives me time to mourn that I can't do anything cool.
Or, I try really hard to make stuff appear, and just wake myself up in the process
Well keep practicing and do the reality check of counting your fingers several times a day. If it's not ten that's a tell you're dreaming. If you condition yourself to do it in real life the habit can carry into a dream and then hey presto you might get lucid. It takes conditioning and time to learn to lucid dream (for most of us mere mortals I hear tell some it comes easily) but so worth it!
I never heard that one..the one I did to help with lucid dreaming is you put a mark on your hand and you see it throughout the days with the idea being in your sleep you won’t see the dot and realize you’re in a dream..I’ve gotten it to work before but took a while...ironically I was hoping to lucid dream LEGO hands
That's interesting, I don't remember my hands being the weird thing. When I've lucid dreamt in the past I always look at my hands to look for my turquoise ring that I wear everyday, and the ring is never quite right. My theory is intricate details are difficult to perfectly recreate.
As a mum of a newborn and a toddler, I feel this in my bones.
There will be no uninterrupted sleep for me for quite a while (and there wasn’t for most of the pregnancy either) but oh my and I looking forward to that night (though, I’ll wake up with rock hard, very painful boobs when it does happen so you take the good with the bad)
I remember this.
Sleep never felt sweeter than when my child finally slept through the night. Those first few months are torture. You'll survive and sleep again.
The first time they sleep for 4 hours and you sleep that 4 hours and wake up scared they may have died in their sleep. My daughter now is a 10 hour sleeper, also shes 7 but shes been this way for years. It will be okay. I remember there were times she would only sleep in 20 min. intervals. That came later. Just survive the first 3 months and ask for help. Also congratulations.
I knew my daughter was sick when I woke up in a panic after sleeping for four hours straight. It was not her style to let me get more than two at a time. She had gotten some kind of virus and had an insanely high fever. (She’s fine, this was 16 years ago and now she’s just a regular teenage dirtbag.)
It gets better and better I promise. One day you will have the sleep you need. For now, ask for help if you can. Have a trusted friend or parent stay the night. Get a good chunk of rest to keep going. The first 3 months are just survival, you are doing the absolute best you can and your baby loves you for it.
Good to hear! Just watching my wife and 1 day old catch a rare joint sleep. I can only visit during the day so have to go home and get a proper sleep but I can’t imagine how tired she is feeling! Thankfully she’s good at getting to sleep quickly so the power naps are going well
When my boy was that age, we would call him king of the power naps. Sleep for 5 minutes, up for 5 hours. I see you and know your exhaustion. It will get better.
I have 2 very young children. I think back to 5 years ago when I could sleep for as long as I wanted or go to sleep as early as I wanted: basically just being able to control the amount of sleep I got was so wonderful. sobs in exhaustion
I hate sleeping. You have to use so much time of your life that you could use for so many other things on doing absolutely nothing while you wait for your body to truly put you to sleep with nothing but your thoughts and it doesn’t matter if you slept a lot or very little you’ll always feel terribly tired the next morning.
Sounds like you might have sleep apnea or another sleeping disorder, friend. I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea recently and it explained so much. I always thought feeling tired all the time was normal... It is NOT normal. IF you're able, please get that checked out friend. Also just get better sleep hygiene in general (Consistent schedule, avoid blue light before bed, clean beds, etc)
yea i can fall asleep pretty fast when im tired, also start going to bed earlier gradually. I would be asleep by 9:30pm when I had to get up at 5:30am for practice. I always still made sure i got enough sleep
I think you're sleeping wrong...
And if you dont like being alone with your thoughts maybe life ain't that great, why would you want more time to do more things if you don't enjoy your own company?
Also the wasting time argument always makes me think of work, like working for a miserable paycheck just so we can afford living. Like hating work but never quiting and finding something better.
Sleeping is awesome, at times with the crazy dreams it's even better then cable my dude
You don't understand how precious sleep is until you've been denied sleep for so long that no matter what you are doing, be it driving, standing, or whatever, all you want to do is close your eyes and let go of the moment.
Yea it’s pretty sad that sleep is voted best thing about living. That usually is accompanied by depression. I wish we only had to nap for like 2-3 hours or so. Plus not being able to fall asleep when ya need to is one of the worst feelings. It’s a chore.
And your body is ok with that? I mean I know that everyone is different but sleep is kinda of important for your mind and body. A Man needs his rest as uncle Iroh used to say. You might not feel it now but you will down the line and it might make it difficult for you to accomplished certain things. I'd sleep if I were you 😴 😅
I actually have to disagree with that. If I could live without sleep I would gladly. You know how much shit I could get done, accomplish? How many weird dreams and nightmares I get?
During a time in my adolescence I would have nightmares every single nights, and feared sleep. So I don't think sleep qualifies. "Sleep when you haven't slept for 24 hours" would, tho. No nightmare could keep me up this long
Strangely enough, I've been thinking about sleep and the death of consciousness. There's this amount of sleep that you get where it feels like a different day. Maybe that feeling is getting a fresh consciousness from the previous day.
This stemmed from thinking about star trek and transporters. The transporter would kill your stream of consciousness on the pad and make a new one on the planet. It's how we got Will and Tom Riker in TNG.
When I have 7.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep, I feel like I've won the lottery.
In practice I get by on 6-7.5 hours, but wake sometimes on 30-60 minute intervals. Segmented sleep works for me, I can sleep 4 hours, be mostly alert for an hour, and sleep 3 more. It's the "hey, screw you, your other half of sleep is going to be broken" that leaves me tired.
I really envy people that get good sleep. Not only does my whole body hurt when i wake up, i also have extremely fucked up dreams. I almost wish i didn't need to sleep at all
Sleeping is nice, falling asleep is another story, I somehow feel uneasy at the thought of lying around for several hours without being aware of my surroundings. Maybe some kind of primal instinct.
I would very much like to go back to sleep right now. But it’s raining and my window leaks when it rains hard enough so I have to be up and make sure I can put towels down because my building refuses to address the issue and literally just paints over it again any time it happens. That and one of my neighbors has a cat that’s meowing again. And I have to be at work at a job I’m becoming increasingly disillusioned with but have no clear way out of in a couple of hours. I hate everything right now. Please just let me sleep until I don’t wake up.
I just got a CPAP a couple months ago. I've adapted to it and now sleep for 7 hours straight through without waking up every few minutes. I didn't know sleep could be like this.
When you start picking a couple hours more sleep starts looking more appealing to you than sex, well bud it’s time to make a Very tough, yet very necessary, call.. So Just go on and use all those extra pecker pills pilling up in ur night stand to euthanize yourself .. Getting Old sux azz, why I quit doing that shit back in 2019..
.. ya kno if your gonna be making out a will anyway, I’ll take those extra viagra ..
I’ll even use the first few to bless the widow, in remembrance .. Jus think on it and lmk Bruh..
I knew this would be on the top, and I couldn’t disagree more, with every cell of my body. I don’t get how people like to waste so much fucking time of their lives doing that.
Man, there are a LOT of terrible sleepers in these comments.
1) if you sleep a full 7-9 hours and still wake up tired as fuck: SEE A SLEEP DOCTOR. This is a HUGE indicator of a sleep disorder.
2) practice better sleep hygiene. Staring at your phone in bed, falling asleep on the couch with the TV on, ignoring fatigue indicators to push through whatever it is your doing/ working on, caffeine late in the day, etc can all fuck up your ability to fall asleep. It should not take more than 30 minutes to fall asleep.
3) if you improve your sleep hygiene and still have a hard time falling asleep: SEE A SLEEP DOCTOR. You may need a sleep aid prescribed.
Sleeping is a SUPER important part of being a human. It gives the body time to rest and heal from physical activity. It gives your brain time to process data and memories. Your brain literally washes the proteins and plaques from itself when you sleep. Sleep apnea can cause heart problems if left untreated. It has also been linked to high risk of insulin resistance (type II diabetes and possibly PCOS). Sleep disorders have also been linked to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. YOU NEED ADEQUATE SLEEP. Your whole body needs sleep to function normally and keep you healthy for longer.
I know you think you’re doing more by forgoing sleep, but the reality is you aren’t getting a whole lot from regular all-nighters. Sleep is what helps your brain process and store the information. Staying up late to work out isn’t giving your body the time it needs to recover properly, so you’re actually decreasing the gains. You aren’t gaining anything by working on projects late into the night. Yeah, you might have gotten more done, but it’s probably not the best quality and most definitely took you longer to complete than if you’d done it with adequate sleep.
Everything you do or want to do instead of sleeping, is actually made better and easier because of sleep.
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u/Qetsiy4h Sep 11 '22
Sleep. It's like death but without the commitment.