*Slaps self upside forehead*
Jun. 28th, 2003 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4I think I should start putting a sig on everything I post everywhere: "Warning! Before believing anything the previous post says check the time it was posted! If this falls between 1 and 8 am Eastern Time the writer is sleep deprived. I repeat, the writer is sleep deprived. If you follow any advice given and it turns out to be horribly wrong remember that you have been warned!"
When I was thirteen I cut back to sleeping three hours a night. This lasted about five years, until I graduated high school. While I sleep more then that now, it's still not the recommended amount, plus my day tends to be about thirty-two hours long so it tends to be worse then if a normal person got by on as much sleep as I do. I'm used to living on sleep deprivation, and most of the time there's no problem. However, at least once a night I'll fall into that state where you're incredibly stupid. You think you know things (and normally probably really do), but at the moment you know them wrong and anyone who listens to you will be lead astray. This is even worse in that, since as I said I'm used to being sleep deprived, I tend to not give off many signals. And those that I do give off aren't going to get picked up often 'cause they're rather the opposite of what you'd expect; my spelling gets better and my "speech" gets very formal. That's because I actually bother spellchecking since part of my brain (not the controlling part unfortunately) realises I'm not in the state where I'm likely to be spelling well on my own, and I'm chosing my words incredibly carefully to make sure I'm being clear.
This post stems from the fact that earlier this evening (er, morning) I made a few really stupid posts in a message board I go to. Boy, I ain't gonna live this night down for awhile. Oh well, at least this time didn't involve porn.
When I was thirteen I cut back to sleeping three hours a night. This lasted about five years, until I graduated high school. While I sleep more then that now, it's still not the recommended amount, plus my day tends to be about thirty-two hours long so it tends to be worse then if a normal person got by on as much sleep as I do. I'm used to living on sleep deprivation, and most of the time there's no problem. However, at least once a night I'll fall into that state where you're incredibly stupid. You think you know things (and normally probably really do), but at the moment you know them wrong and anyone who listens to you will be lead astray. This is even worse in that, since as I said I'm used to being sleep deprived, I tend to not give off many signals. And those that I do give off aren't going to get picked up often 'cause they're rather the opposite of what you'd expect; my spelling gets better and my "speech" gets very formal. That's because I actually bother spellchecking since part of my brain (not the controlling part unfortunately) realises I'm not in the state where I'm likely to be spelling well on my own, and I'm chosing my words incredibly carefully to make sure I'm being clear.
This post stems from the fact that earlier this evening (er, morning) I made a few really stupid posts in a message board I go to. Boy, I ain't gonna live this night down for awhile. Oh well, at least this time didn't involve porn.