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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 11, 2009 at 9:20 am
Well, I've never tried it. But you've gotta watch out with sleep deprivation, I mean, in my experience.
I didn't sleep for several days once, and I had an 8 week long manic psychotic episode and I've been on the drug Lithium for nearing 3 years now - it's not an easy drug to come off, your body gets dependent on it. When I come off it in time, if I ever will need it again I don't know.
So you've really gotta know what you're doing, don't fuck with sleeping too much lol.
Obviously what happened to me doesn't happen to everyone who lacks sleep. There were other factors as well in my case. Although the lack of sleep is a huge factor. I saw a TV doco about how lacking sleep for several days can even give you hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, delusions and even hallucinations. All of which I believe I had except hallucinations.
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 11, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Here nya go rjh:
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 11, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Wow, thats pretty intense EvF, I've only ever gotten to halusinations and loss of peripheral vision, and of course extreme irritability due to lack of sleep before I passed out. I normally just sleep it off for a couple days and Im fine.
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 12, 2009 at 1:10 am
During this past summer I pulled several 48-hour days. This was because I had gotten in a sleep pattern of going to bed at 4-5am and waking up at 2-4pm the next day...which was not very practical. In hopes of shifting to a more normal schedule I tried to just stay up one night and through the entire next day, hoping that I'd get so tired that I'd want to go to sleep at a normal time like 11pm or so. It never really worked, and the feelings I got from the sleep deprivation were very potent.
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 12, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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I did manage to get up at 4 today. Now it looks like I have two monitors and theyre both melting.
That artificial neural networks module should prove interesting.
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 13, 2009 at 3:41 am
I just hope you don't have to operate heavy machinery.
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RE: Polyphasic Sleep
October 13, 2009 at 5:37 am
@leo: no, all's well.
I cocked up the 8:30 nap today. a friend decided to contract swine flu and I was the only person awake enough to go and get pills for him. Consequently I was only able to sleep for 10 minutes and 10 minutes later than usual as well. I hope this doesnt throw me off for the rest of the day.
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