Has this ever happened to you?

[jeffbert]

Robots just don't know how good they have it. Why would any robot want to be human? Just look at the kinds of diseases and other things that can go wrong, and the fixes if any, are themselves far from perfect. My dad was taking medication to treat one thing, but it ended up causing him to temporarily loose vision in one eye. :angry: Robots just change some software variable or replace some part, and bang! As good as new!

In my case, when I was a teen, friends were saying that maybe I could have bionic arm or some such nonsense! If only it were so easy!

And what about the X-men? All these people have conditions that make them unable to blend into society, but they have these super powers to compensate! If only there were a rule like that.

Rule: Anybody who has a physical impairment must also have some special power to compesate.

Oh, to be a fictional character! I do not think I would like to be like Banf Nightcrawler, but being like Wolverine would be ok.

[snorkyller]

Thanks for your link Dr Frag, I appreciate...

Can you tell me what "IMO" and "AFAIK" mean? :huh: Maybe it's something I didn't catch yet in the english language


Yeah jeffbert.... I really wanna be a robot 'cause I'm a programmer-analyst... So, I could fix myself!!! B) I would be sure that I would be fixed quickly 'cause I'm quite good and I don't give up until the problem is fixed (unlike the doctors :angry

[Danny]

IMO = In My Opinion.
AFAIK = As Far As I Know

they are two of a multitude of Acronims commonly used in IMs and BBs netwide

[DrFrag]

I just slept 25 hours straight! Not my longest sleep, but I think it's the first time I've slept a full calendar day - midnight to midnight. I fell asleep around 11:30pm Saturday and woke up 12:30am Monday.
And that doesn't count my Saturday evening nap in front of the TV.

[Strange Wings]

Originally posted by DrFrag@May 16 2004, 07:05 PM
I just slept 25 hours straight! Not my longest sleep, but I think it's the first time I've slept a full calendar day - midnight to midnight. I fell asleep around 11:30pm Saturday and woke up 12:30am Monday.
And that doesn't count my Saturday evening nap in front of the TV.

Comforting to know that we're not the only country with a lousy TV programm on saturday
evenings .

How do you feel after such a long time of sleep? I mean, do you feel refreshed or do you still feel tired afterwards?
I'm asking that because I used to have nights where I can sleep 9-10 hours without any interruption but after waking up I still feel tired and drowsy .

[jeffbert]

My problem with sleeping is finding a 'comfortable' position when lying in bed. I sleep on my left side, but cannot often fall asleep in that position. I roll over a couple times, trying to satify all my bad joints, etc., but all too often must sacrifice one pain in order to supress others. :angry:

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by Louis'74@May 17 2004, 04:48 AM
Comforting to know that we're not the only country with a lousy TV programm on saturday
evenings .

How do you feel after such a long time of sleep? I mean, do you feel refreshed or do you still feel tired afterwards?
I'm asking that because I used to have nights where I can sleep 9-10 hours without any interruption but after waking up I still feel tired and drowsy .

Actually I was watching a tape of Braveheart.

I didn't feel too bad after I woke up. I took some diazepam before going to sleep which really helps my muscle pain. Usually it takes 6-8 hours off my sleeping time as well, so 25 hours was a bit unexpected. It's only a muscle relaxant, not a sedative.
I think I was just exhausted after helping my mum with a bathroom renovation; we had to take down a brick wall.

[fafner]

Now I think I have a small idea of what you felt Louis'74.
I had never had this, and during the last week-end, I experienced no less than THREE sleep paralysis! They happened each time when I was falling asleep. The first two happened during saturday night and just gave me the feeling of not being able to breath, I just suddenly woke up. But the last one, 2 nights later, left me paralysed for about 2 seconds, just enough to have no doubt I couldn't move! :wacko:
Nothing happened last night, but now I have a kind of "background fear" when I try to sleep :huh:

[Strange Wings]

Originally posted by fafner@Jun 2 2004, 05:45 PM
Now I think I have a small idea of what you felt Louis'74.
I had never had this, and during the last week-end, I experienced no less than THREE sleep paralysis! They happened each time when I was falling asleep. The first two happened during saturday night and just gave me the feeling of not being able to breath, I just suddenly woke up. But the last one, 2 nights later, left me paralysed for about 2 seconds, just enough to have no doubt I couldn't move! :wacko:
Nothing happened last night, but now I have a kind of "background fear" when I try to sleep :huh:

Welcome to our little involuntary passions.
I wouldn't be too worried about those paralyses while waiting for sleep. They only seem to appear in stress situations. The last time I've had it was somewhere in january when I had a really tight work schedule, and it had lasted for about 10 seconds (I think it was in the wakeup-phase).
Since then I didn't noticed the slightest sign of any upcoming paralysis.

Snorkyller mentioned in one of his earlier posts in this thread that sleep-paralyses may depend on one's current conditions such like physical exhaustions, states of mind, etc.
I think there's a lot of truth in there.

[fafner]

Originally posted by Louis'74@Jun 2 2004, 09:08 PM
I wouldn't be too worried about those paralyses while waiting for sleep. They only seem to appear in stress situations.

I'm not really afraid of anything in particular, but when it happens it is not exactly pleasant if you see what I mean I'm afraid of it the same way when I am waiting my turn at the dentist, when it could happen at any moment :wacko:
About the stress situation, I wonder how I could be stressed during a 4-days week-end! Why not monday or tuesday of a normal week?