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[athelind]

normanafferty sez, "Why do people take drugs, when they can just deprive themsleves of sleep?"

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[pathia.livejournal.com]

Because lack of sleep ticks off my moderate Dissociative Identity Disorder (http://www.sidran.org/didbr.html) (NOT multiple personalities by the way, hollywood SO overdramatizes that) which would then require drugs to stop? ;-)

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

Drugs are faster. :)

And lack of sleep doesn't work for everyone. How long do you normally have to be awake before weird crap starts happening? I once stayed up...lemme think...at least 72 hours in a row. Probably around 80. I didn't have any problems other than being barely able to stay awake.

[tephra]

Yeah, I stayed awake for the entire first Albany Anthrocon. Things didn't get weird until very late Sunday night/early Monday morning, and that was probably the result of too much Coke and Vivarin. 8) So I went... four days without sleep? Okay, I had a couple hours the first night, but with no crash space that was a nap in a hot car ('78 Thunderbirds do not have enough space for a large, tall woman to really get comfy BTW) in the parking garage. Not really sleep so much as resting. Drugs would be much faster. (Though maybe the megadoses of caffeine qualify as drugs?)

After a couple hours of napping in the car Monday morning I drove 6 hours to get home and then slept for about 13 hours. I think I was too tired to dream.

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

Maybe what I was doing wrong was not drinking enough caffeine. I refused (and still refuse) to take caffeinated tablets - I figure what's the point? Caffeine makes my heart race, raises my blood pressure, and gives me weird dreams, but it NEVER actually keeps me awake. And my caffeinated drink of choice is diet coke, while many of my friends were Dew-heads, and drank the occasional cup of coffee.

By the way, if you're coming to this year's Anthrocon we should try to meet up - I don't meet many large tall women. I wonder if you're as large or as tall as me? :D Oh and re: sleeping in cars, I totally sympathize. About the only vehicle I've managed to get decent sleep in was the truck I used while working at the park. F150s with bench seats, that's the way to go.

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Sleep? What's that?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I'm a mutant. I actually sleep best in a moving vehicle, be it car, RV, boat or ship.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

What's that button I keep seeing?
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my uncle...not screaming in terror, like his passengers."

And...I tend to fall asleep in moving vehicles, too. Something about the rhythmic motion, I guess. Or I could be a mutant as well *waggles prehensile toes*.

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

Actually the one time I had the opportunity to sleep on a boat was the best sleep I remember. Very soothing, being rocked back and forth. And I will say sleeping in a moving car is easier, assuming you have something to rest your head on so you don't concuss yourself, than sleeping in a still car. Never had the opportunity to sleep in a moving RV, though I imagine it's also quite nice.

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

I don't think your alone.. one of the most pleasant naps I had was next to the wall to the engine compartment of a faerie boat. Warm, low rumble of the engine, sway of the water, only thing that could have made it better was a proper pillow }:->

[collie13.livejournal.com]

Why do people take drugs, when they can just deprive themselves of sleep?

Beats me. The only times I've hallucinated were on lack of sleep. One was a fever dream, and was horrible, but I still remember the other... um, fondly? ;)

I was driving a loaded horse van at dawn in Colorado. We'd driven all night, switching off, from Texas, through New Mexico, which we discovered has only 4 gas stations in it -- two of which are closed. ;-p

So I was chugging the huge, clumsy van up a hillside, and noticed a giant snail in the road. I wasn't particularly worried, of course, since it was cheerfully waving its 20' antenna at me (did I say it was a giant snail?), but I did wonder how we were going to get around it -- and then it hit me: are there really any giant snails?!

So I casually asked my passenger if he saw anything in the road ahead. I didn't want to scare him, since he was getting the first sleep he'd had for over 24 hours. The poor guy had to literally crawl himself up the dashboard to see, and I believe his response was a bleary-eyed, "GnnnRRRglnnnfffff..." That's when I cheerily said, "Stopping for breakfast!" and turned into a convenient truck stop.

No, I have no idea where the idea for a snail came from, and no, it wasn't there when we came back out, much later and much better fortified. ;)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

You can turn into a truck stop?

Now, THAT one's never come up on the Otherkin lists before.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

What makes me a mutant is that the more the vessel is moving, the better I can sleep. The ship's heaving and pitching and taking 40-degree rolls? Seaman Snark is wedged happily in his rack, elbows in the upper corners, feet in the lower, dead to the world.

[collie13.livejournal.com]

*preenpreen* Not just a truck stop, but rather a nice, clean truck stop which serves delicious and filling pancake breakfasts! With bacon even! ;-9

;)

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Of course. To a biiiig dragon, that's just a cradle ^_^

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

"More than meets the eye", indeed...

[collie13.livejournal.com]

I'll say. I still have no idea why a snail. Not something cool or terrifying or beautiful. Just... a snail. ;-p

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to trains myself. };>

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Mmm, bacon.

[collie13.livejournal.com]

Hey, convert into your own bacon hallucination! ;)

[tephra]

At this time I do plan to be at Anthrocon. I generally make at least one stop at the Sanguine table to harass the rat. :)

I wonder if you're as large or as tall as me?

Depends on if you're around 5'9" and size 30/32. ;)

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

I'm taller than you, and about the same width, it would seem. We shall compare at the con! I'm their resident female, I've noticed.