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Post by Mellow Yellow on Dec 14, 2007 12:58:58 GMT -5
I've never done it before, but it had to be done. If I was going to pass the Japanese 201 final, it had to be done.... The pros of staying awake all night studying are that... well... you get ample study time. The cons of it are the fact that lack of sleep does funny things with foreign languages in your brain, it seems.... For example, during the oral conversation section of the test, where I actually had to meet 1 on 1 with the teacher and role play, instead of saying (in Japanese) "can you please write me a recommendation letter?" I said "can you please TEACH me a recommendation letter?" and at another part I mistakenly said (in Japanese) "when I was a child I was obligated to watch TV while I studied" ... So now if you'll excuse me, my brain, which has been awake for nearly 30 hours straight, is telling me it's time to go pass out..... because I'm starting to see things....  |
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Post by The Deceptionist on Dec 14, 2007 13:07:15 GMT -5
sleep deprivation can be fun sometimes ;D
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Post by That Latvian Guy on Dec 14, 2007 13:18:32 GMT -5
おやすみなさい
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Post by Mellow Yellow on Dec 15, 2007 1:53:29 GMT -5
おはいよございます！ わたしは十二時間ぐらい寝ました。。。
Good morning! I just slept for around 12 hours...
Wait.... what do you mean it's not morning?
...Well damn, now, because I've slept all day, I'm wide awake at 1am! Now my body thinks it's daytime when it's really nighttime!
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Post by MikeNL on Dec 15, 2007 5:52:48 GMT -5
おはいよございます！ わたしは十二時間ぐらい寝ました。。。 Good morning! I just slept for around 12 hours... Wait.... what do you mean it's not morning? ...Well damn, now, because I've slept all day, I'm wide awake at 1am! Now my body thinks it's daytime when it's really nighttime! same.. same same here  |
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Post by Doc on Dec 15, 2007 14:18:47 GMT -5
おはいよございます！ わたしは十二時間ぐらい寝ました。。。 Good morning! I just slept for around 12 hours... Wait.... what do you mean it's not morning? ...Well damn, now, because I've slept all day, I'm wide awake at 1am! Now my body thinks it's daytime when it's really nighttime! same.. same same here Now you are catching on, my children, you are LEARNING! My REAL plot all along---to create as many web-zombies by 2008 as I possibly could----a legion of veritable mini-me's, who post by night and sleep by day. And my plot is working! It is so beautiful! BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.........hah! |
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Post by Miss Vaggie (Aka ET Girl) on Dec 15, 2007 14:26:52 GMT -5
I'm an ET Teenage Mimicker. We don't sleep at all. Except for casual "naps" that are really just relaxation sessions. Time to reflect and all that. Come to think of it... I'm missing out on a lot. REM sleep, dreams, etc...  Ok. No more caffeine-flavored fruit juice for me.  |
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Post by B on Dec 30, 2007 20:23:41 GMT -5
Ah yes! All nighters. (Ha ha!) You can't get away with them once you're past "youth". But then old age kicks in, and you can't sleep at night anyway, and you have to get up and pee about every two hours.  But I began to hear voices after staying up for 3 and a half days straight once. That was pretty cool! Well, as the Deceptionist wrote, sleepdeprivation can be fun sometimes! Congrats, Mellow Yellow, and try not to do too many more of them. And I don't recommend Jolt cola, because you'll just feel like crap around 4AM, even if you felt GREAT at eleven. I hear that Bailey's works pretty well. You won't stay awake, but you won't care either. |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Dec 30, 2007 23:35:06 GMT -5
From one who's experienced many a night of sleep deprivation due to stress, illness, restlessness, nervous leg jitters, frequent trips to the bathroom due to some sort of "stuff" my body was trying to get rid of...simply not tired...or even because I took a nap earlier and am not tired yet...Sometimes my most creative moments came in the late hours. Sometimes a spiritual breakthrough, sometimes just having quiet time to think things through, whatever it takes, it can be a healing thing.
Although I've heard the body heals itself between 10 pm and 2 am...I don't know about that...we all have our ways of living, studying and coping....
Sometimes the late night is a time that's quiet from all the noise of the day and one can just become a different person...not saying that we turn into some sort of shape shifter, although I can't speak for DOC....but we can act differently than perhaps we do during the day when we're at work, or market..or play....
My luck if I learned to speak Japanese, it would probably come out like "Can you fix this record? It is scratched"...ala Monty Python.
I'm too old to be an ET Teenage Mimicker....perhaps an ET Menopausal Mimicker....and believe me, menopausal mimickers need more than caffiene flavored fruit juice...more like Hormone Replacement Juice....plant estrogens...from spinach/kale/parsley and carrot juice with a pinch of cayenne pepper in the morning is my quick "pick me up". Cayenne pepper jump starts the heart and gets the blood circulating...I'm not joking, I drink my herbal tea of choice and I also like to juice with my Jack La Laine juicer... spinach/kale/parsley/and carrots are foods that are healing and I need all the help I can get.
I never shared this with anyone on any PID forums, but when I was 14, my first "all nighter" was when they had a Beatles movie marathon at a theatre, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be, Help and A Hard Day's Night... It was a good thing that I didn't have to get up for school, it was on a Friday night...
It was interesting that they showed the later films before the earlier ones.
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