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Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:

Fuzzy Modem wrote:I have three different deadlines at the end of this month, after that I will try to take the time to put up both fluid dynamics and dynamic shatter/particle instancing tutorials for realistic starship explosions, aswell as an industrial design starfighter tutorial at some point.

Yeah, that's right, you never sleep do you? I can barely find the time to do one basic lighting tute and get my website together, and you've got 4 on the go plus a short film project. I wish i was an insomniac as well, think of all the stuff I'd get done. I suppose my current jet-lag will have to suffice.

In all fairness I do sleep atleast 5 hours every 2 days. My current schedual is about 6pm-2pm, although if I've got alot going on I tend to put off sleep untill I've met my deadlines. I'm doing it without caffine now too. I used to be a 6 cups a day man, now I haven't had tea or coffee for 3 weeks. I also take time to eat, shower, and apease my wife occasionally.


In my experiance, maximising your sleep comes down to your diet and your mind. I never eat a big meal unless I'm ready to go to sleep right afterword, and I never bother trying to sleep if I have anything on my mind, because I know I won't be able to sleep anyway. You can pass the point of total exhaustion and catch a second wind about 3 times without sleeping before it begins to affect the quality of your work. Also you sleep better and more restfully when you are truly tired. It's like training yourself to eat less.

Right now I'm working on training my body to have to urinate less often. This is simply a matter of forcing your bladder to stretch and enlarge, the same as your stomach does each time you over eat. You have to be carefull, because you don't want to risk a bladder infection, but if you work on it slowely over a long period of time you can reduce your trips to the bathroom by 50%.

Maybe this all sounds extreme, but honestly, think how much of your life you waste in bed and on the toilet!

There is a reason I got the title I did, you know...

~ver

Wasted time in bed?!?!?! There is no such thing!

DO NOT BLASPHEME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sleep good sleep great....just wish I could get some...However I doubt falling asleep at my desk would endear myself to my bosses
I agree with Zaia, No such thing as wasted time in bed

Zaia wrote:Wasted time in bed?!?!?! There is no such thing!

DO NOT BLASPHEME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed.

Zaia, shall I travel up to Maryland and we can prove that to this unbeliever?

Hey, gimmie a break, I was gone for a week!

pellaeons_scion wrote:I agree with Zaia, No such thing as wasted time in bed

Of course there is. If you're in bed and you're not sleeping or having sex or doing something that leads to sex, you're wasting time.

As much as I like sleep, I'm probably going to have to cut back on my sleep majorly this first semester. 18.5 credits will probably rob me of a good chunk of my time.

Of course there is. If you're in bed and you're not sleeping or having sex or doing something that leads to sex, you're wasting time.

You know, the moral part of me realllly wants to disagree with him, but the male in me cant help but be nodding in agreeance like some demented puppet. Typical Aerius

Zaia wrote:Wasted time in bed?!?!?! There is no such thing!

DO NOT BLASPHEME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*covers the ears of the children as he leads them away*

Is nothing sacred these days...blasphemy about sleeping...

pellaeons_scion wrote:

Of course there is. If you're in bed and you're not sleeping or having sex or doing something that leads to sex, you're wasting time.

You know, the moral part of me realllly wants to disagree with him, but the male in me cant help but be nodding in agreeance like some demented puppet. Typical Aerius

You...you have a moral side?

*blinks and then knocks pellaeon out and dog tags him like a zoo animal*

You are rare indeed...can't risk anything happening to you.

OOo..Im an endangered species!
At least I think I had a moral side, I think I lost it behind the fridge
Damn this brain, I thought I ordered the Amoral version...
*thinks about all the base degrading things he is missing and cries like a lil girl*

Ggrrrr, sleep. Can't live without it and I sure do like it when I can.

Hhmmm, why does that last sound so perverted?

I stayed up 5 days in a row without sleep once (I was trying to complete almost a semester's worth of work for 5 studio art courses the week before finals at the time.) I don't recommend the experience: I was having hallucinations during my last class. Nothing terribly exciting, just spinning lights around everything. Anyways, I learned two important things about staying awake for long periods of time. First, you need to add a fourth meal sometime during the night in order to keep your energy level up. Second, caffeine and sugar are NOT your friends when you're trying to stay awake for a long stretch of time: the brief boost in energy isn't worth the inevitable crash later on. It just wears your energy reserves down faster, and there comes the point where no amount of coffee will keep you going.

I find it's better to eat small snacks all day than big meals. I keep my energy levels up by eating alot of fresh pasta and drinking alot of water. I also eat ALOT of yogurt. Most times I get a little hungry I eat yogurt. My wife has a yogurt maker that is working pretty much 24-7.

I also don't eat Turkey (Except for Thanksgiving) as is has a tendancy to put me to sleep. I don't eat pork just because I think it's gross.

I try to stay away from anything greasy or hard to digest, and I hardly ever drink soda any more. That stuff is like, almost pure corn syrup.

aerius wrote:

pellaeons_scion wrote:I agree with Zaia, No such thing as wasted time in bed

Of course there is. If you're in bed and you're not sleeping or having sex or doing something that leads to sex, you're wasting time.

What else is there, though? Everything ultimately leads to sex or sleeping--at least, in my house it does--so we're back to my point that there is no wasted time in bed!

Zaia wrote:What else is there, though? Everything ultimately leads to sex or sleeping--at least, in my house it does--so we're back to my point that there is no wasted time in bed!

Damn you...now I'm gonna have to go buy some plane tickets tomorrow!

See what you've done?!

pellaeons_scion wrote:At least I think I had a moral side, I think I lost it behind the fridge

Um...do we really want to know...?

RogueIce wrote:Damn you...now I'm gonna have to go buy some plane tickets tomorrow!

See what you've done?!

Whatever do you mean?

Zaia wrote:

RogueIce wrote:Damn you...now I'm gonna have to go buy some plane tickets tomorrow!

See what you've done?!

Whatever do you mean?

It's not even been my first full week of college and you're giving me these distractions! Curses, how am I ever going to succeed?

RogueIce wrote:

Zaia wrote:

RogueIce wrote:Damn you...now I'm gonna have to go buy some plane tickets tomorrow!

See what you've done?!

Whatever do you mean?

It's not even been my first full week of college and you're giving me these distractions! Curses, how am I ever going to succeed?

Just quit trying man...it's not worth the effort.

Captain_Cyran wrote:Just quit trying man...it's not worth the effort.

Just in case anyone was not aware, I'm referring to classes in that "joke" above, not in a personal sense. Sorry for any confusion.

Does anyone else have the problem of being more tired when you wake up than when you go to sleep?

It's severely annoying.