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#26 2003-01-02 2:29 am
Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
We have a winner. I crashed monday afternoon for 3 hours, much to my eternal shame. This was after 48 solid hours of wakey-wakey. My eyes hurt, my knees hurt, and for some strange reason, the skin on my hands had dried out and turned red. My grandma once toldme that hair only grows at night. Nope, I had to shave.
Monday night at 11 I gave up for real and went to bed. I slept twelve hours in full clothes, including shoes, on top of the covers.
Wooohooo
I won! (along with everybody else who called it on Monday)
Valiant effort, m'boy. 
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#27 2003-01-02 4:35 am
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
unless you can stay awaake more than 6 days you wont beat my record.....
6 days, 12 hours, some unknown number of minutes and seconds.......... (afterwords i slept for 48 hrs straight.... ) that has to be the worst bit of insomnia i have had in my life... twards the end of it, i was hallucinating.... or dreaming while awake... or something....... now i'm down to a more reasonable 15 hours awake, 4 hours not sleeping(not awake) 5 hrs sleep.... if you dont know what i mean by that, you have never had insomnia.... 4 hours in a semi-concious state, usually spent in front of the computer... usually cannot remember what i was doing on the computer the next morning.... only that i was online... (you may have seen posts here from me during this time, usually they are very incoherent...)
anyways, back to semi-conciousness.... :yawn:
4:41 am.... almost time to sleep...
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#28 2003-01-02 3:13 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
unless you can stay awaake more than 6 days you wont beat my record.....
6 days, 12 hours, some unknown number of minutes and seconds.......... (afterwords i slept for 48 hrs straight.... ) that has to be the worst bit of insomnia i have had in my life... twards the end of it, i was hallucinating.... or dreaming while awake... or something....... now i'm down to a more reasonable 15 hours awake, 4 hours not sleeping(not awake) 5 hrs sleep.... if you dont know what i mean by that, you have never had insomnia.... 4 hours in a semi-concious state, usually spent in front of the computer... usually cannot remember what i was doing on the computer the next morning.... only that i was online... (you may have seen posts here from me during this time, usually they are very incoherent...)anyways, back to semi-conciousness.... :yawn:
4:41 am.... almost time to sleep...
Heh, I kinda wondered if i was the only person in the world who faded out like that...
"After all, it's not that awful, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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#29 2003-01-02 9:39 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
unless you can stay awaake more than 6 days you wont beat my record.....
6 days, 12 hours, some unknown number of minutes and seconds.......... (afterwords i slept for 48 hrs straight.... ) that has to be the worst bit of insomnia i have had in my life... twards the end of it, i was hallucinating.... or dreaming while awake... or something....... now i'm down to a more reasonable 15 hours awake, 4 hours not sleeping(not awake) 5 hrs sleep.... if you dont know what i mean by that, you have never had insomnia.... 4 hours in a semi-concious state, usually spent in front of the computer... usually cannot remember what i was doing on the computer the next morning.... only that i was online... (you may have seen posts here from me during this time, usually they are very incoherent...)anyways, back to semi-conciousness.... :yawn:
4:41 am.... almost time to sleep...
you poor bastard.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#30 2003-01-03 4:18 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
I do that sometimes, either in here or on #MAFirc, and that gets interesting.
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#31 2003-01-03 9:11 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
...and for some strange reason, the skin on my hands had dried out and turned red...
During finals week and pulling a stint similar to yours, I feel asleep with my wrist on the wrist pad of my iceBook.
Now it's all hard and icky and stuff. Reminds me off some people's feet.
I don't want to scare you, but could you have developed eczema?
It sounds really fruity, but try some kind of moisturizer.
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#32 2003-01-03 10:36 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
...and for some strange reason, the skin on my hands had dried out and turned red...
During finals week and pulling a stint similar to yours, I feel asleep with my wrist on the wrist pad of my iceBook.
Now it's all hard and icky and stuff. Reminds me off some people's feet.I don't want to scare you, but could you have developed eczema?
It sounds really fruity, but try some kind of moisturizer.
umm.. i think he was talking about his wrist pad being " all hard and icky and stuff" 
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#33 2003-01-04 1:41 am
Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
...and for some strange reason, the skin on my hands had dried out and turned red...
During finals week and pulling a stint similar to yours, I feel asleep with my wrist on the wrist pad of my iceBook.
Now it's all hard and icky and stuff. Reminds me off some people's feet.I don't want to scare you, but could you have developed eczema?
It sounds really fruity, but try some kind of moisturizer.umm.. i think he was talking about his wrist pad being " all hard and icky and stuff"
I don't know. I think he was talking about his actual wrist being all hard and icky. Why else would compare it to feet? And they were just talking about wrists...
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#34 2003-01-07 9:13 pm
- Piltdownman84
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
I think you failed because you only relied of caffeine. If you really want to stay up you need speed and lots of it. Then again if you are too much of a pussy to take speed all the time, like me, let me recommend diet pills. I like thermogenesis . Last year it helped me do a semesters worth of coding in 3 days straight, no breaks longer than 20 minutes.
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#35 2003-01-08 12:54 pm
Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
...and for some strange reason, the skin on my hands had dried out and turned red...
During finals week and pulling a stint similar to yours, I feel asleep with my wrist on the wrist pad of my iceBook.
Now it's all hard and icky and stuff. Reminds me off some people's feet.I don't want to scare you, but could you have developed eczema?
It sounds really fruity, but try some kind of moisturizer.umm.. i think he was talking about his wrist pad being " all hard and icky and stuff"
I don't know. I think he was talking about his actual wrist being all hard and icky. Why else would compare it to feet? And they were just talking about wrists...
No, I'm talking about my wrist. After not using a computer for a few days though, it developed white folds. Odd looking. Not repulsive, just odd.
My mom had really bad eczema that hasn't popped up in awhile, so I did consider that as a possibility.
I dunno. I'll give myself another long computer break and see if it disappears.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#36 2003-01-10 6:31 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
I think you failed because you only relied of caffeine. If you really want to stay up you need speed and lots of it. Then again if you are too much of a pussy to take speed all the time, like me, let me recommend diet pills. I like thermogenesis . Last year it helped me do a semesters worth of coding in 3 days straight, no breaks longer than 20 minutes.
uh huh...
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#37 2003-01-10 8:33 pm
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Re: The great Sleep Deprivation experiment!
I think you failed because you only relied of caffeine. If you really want to stay up you need speed and lots of it. Then again if you are too much of a pussy to take speed all the time, like me, let me recommend diet pills. I like thermogenesis . Last year it helped me do a semesters worth of coding in 3 days straight, no breaks longer than 20 minutes.
uh huh...
20 minute breaks interspersed with 1 minute work periods. 
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