h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

as bessie's best mate i been following her....
i work nights now 10.30pm - 2.30am so i get to enjoy a wonderous variety of sleep deprivation.
bess did love to stay up all night in uni and i can totally relate to the freaky stage.
one favourite point was when we were living together and i decided to clean the bathroom whilst repeatedly singing the pokemon theme song. it's like being alive and drunk and weird !! fun while you're young, but i'm getting old now

You're only as young as the man/woman you feel.

Not sure about the pokemon theme, but the rest sounds like a riot!

Still sleeping relatively well, though I've jinxed it for sure by saying that...

Night night!

I'd completely forgotten about that incident. Will I ever live it down? But how else are you gonna get anything done at Uni if you don't stay up all night?

How's the sleeping these days then?

personally bessie baby, i get up usually about 9.30ish (cause thats when badger gets up) and he takes me home where i think about sleeping all day.
but i've just had season 4 of angel so now my days have a new purpose. plus !!! i've realised the better alternative to a healing centre ! a magic shop, with healing rooms upstairs !! yay !!
so i decided to finally finish my healing exam. 500 words on old age, and 500 words on death...joy....

Lovely...

I actually haven't had any bother dropping off for a while now. Will I be disqualified from posting if I've had enough sleep?

Hooray for Angel!

Angel? Flippin eck, not you as well! I can just about cope with Clairie adoring that programme. I admit I watched it once and thought it was the best thing ever made but I also admit that I wasn't of sound mind at the time!

I reckon that so long as you have no sleep every now and then, you can qualify for this conversation. But hey, you gotta catch up at some point!

Oh yeah, Clair, I reckon the magic/healing combination sounds really cool. Only if you can find it in your heart to employ me when it opens!

And with two insomniacs behind the counter, you could keep it open 24/7!!!

I'm not an Angel obsessive, don't worry. It's a good show though, hence the hooray. Obsessed with many sitcoms, but try not to talk about them so much.

bess, i have a dream of you behind the counter with a witch's hat on, serving customers, and NOT letting them steal stuff !!
24/7 witch shop sounds good, although can you imagine the drunks ?
as you know, i love seth, and he thinks that the way we sleep is wrong. apparently we should only be sleeping in 4 hour bursts about twice a day. i'll tell u more when i have the energy

I learnt the art of not sleeping 4 yrs ago with birth of my first child. I didn't sleep during the end of the pregnancy as I became very large and very uncomfortable. Then when baby was born feeds were every 4 hours so after a couple of months I got used to having not much sleep. Then when baby number 2 arrived the pattern started all over again. Now my kids are aged 2yrs and 4yrs and I still cannot manage a full nights sleep, it is not uncommon to find me still awake at 2am and waking up with one of them at about 7amish. I sometimes use a variation on the 20minute snooze - I let the kids watch tv while I sit on the settee and snooze through their favourite programmes, thus refreshed when they both ask for drinks, sweets etc.

Mind you on the occasional night when I don't have the kids (because lovely grandparents have been willing to babysit) I still find myself awake half the night on the pc or watching telly. The only time I have slept properly in the last 4 years was when I was in hospital where they made me lay down before midnight and I wasn't disturbed until 8am for breakfast and a welcome cup of tea!!!

from the research i've done, you are probably more sane than many people if you sleep like that ! seriously, like i said, i'd done some research and short bursts is the best thing. you're lucky !!

mind u there is still days when i just can't be bothered doing anything cos i'm so tired from staying up 2 god knows what hours

I´ve not been getting much the last few days. Or sleep. (Have I done that gag already?) On holiday in Spain, it´s too darn hot, and am passing into the ´freaky stage´ as described above.

Congratulations tired mum - I could never manage two kids, let alone while sleep deprived! Hats off to you!

Hi i'm currently working night shifts and i always find my immue system is affected. More coughs, bad skin etc.I remember reading i the distant past during a psychology course that there was someone who suffered some type of brain trauma an lost the ability to sleep. Apparently he survived for several months (though no doubt his sanity may have been affected) untill he finally died of a chest infectio due to an impaired immue system. Does this sound likely or is my sllep deprived brain playing tricks on me.

There is a useful link on Sleep Disorders on my Website if any of you are concerned.

http://www.loughborough.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/insomnia.htm

Just to enhance the view that it is possible to attain higher levels of intelligence with "Sleep Dep". I am still researching the background but from personal experience I find my brain and mind have to work harder and I enjoy the challenge occasionally. It also enhances creativity. Although there are many worthy arguments for the avoidance of SleepDep, my own occasional taste for it originates from a simple lust for life, meaning good conversation, the journey of relationships, humour, creativity, "eating life". Comments?

It definitely improves my creativity - I'd had writers block for days and came up with some amazing sketches the night after one sleepless night. Also watching carry on camping at one in the morning is great fun!

There was an article in todays daily mail about curing insomnia, which i read out of curiousity. It said only two cups of tea a day, and not after 2pm. Hmmm... Good job I don't want to be 'cured'.

I have also noticed I am more perceptive when I have had a large shortage of sleep. I am a musician and it seems that the longer I go without sleep the more I am as to what is going on in the jam session. Either that or I'm too out of it to know what is really occuring.

I fell asleep at 6 o'clock this evening, woke up at nine, expecting that I wouldn't get back off, as I usually can't. I did however fall asleep about an hour later - only for the fire alarm in my halls to go off at about 2 o'clock! It's now just gone 5... I have no lectures today, but I'm going dancing this evening - It will be interesting to see which forms of creativity it affects.

Think it's time for another cup of tea...

(P.S. - it was a false alarm, but the thing that alerts security didn't go off, so we were standing in the cold for quite a while until they arrived... Not as much fun as last year when I spent 3/4 of an hour in a toga in the freezing cold!)