I'm a moron...

[PsychoSy]

George Carlin once said...

Have you ever fallen asleep sometime during the mid afternoon then you wake up after dark...and you don't know what ******* day it is?!?

This is me today! :p

Earlier today around 1PM, I took a nap on the couch. Got up at 6PM. However, I thought it was 6AM. So I hop on here, respond to some PMs and all the jazz. Four hours later, I notice that it's still dark outside and I'm wondering, "what the **** happened to the sun?!?"

And so here I am at 10:13 PM still trying to rationalize it all. :o

I need special help! :p

[ASCI Blue]

I can think of a situation that's worse. It's early summer and I fell asleep at night as I was supposed to and woke up in the morning like I was supposed to except I thought it was 6 pm rather than 6 am.

Military time is so much easier to deal with. :p

[Son Goku]

Back when I was in high school, I had a couple times where I was up all night studying, then I figured I might get a couple hours sleep (like 4:30 am when finished and didn't have to be up for a couple hours). Only problem is I set the alarm, woke up more then a couple hours latter and the day was practically done.

It seems that if I'm really exhausted, I can tend to turn off the alarm without waking up. So after that happened, I tried setting a second alarm clock accross the room, where I couldn't reach it from bed. Only problem is I subconsciously got up out of bed without ever waking up, walked accross the room, turned it off, then climbed back in, put the covers back over me and all, and again... That was about it for a couple hours sleep if I needed to burn the mid-night oil and then be up in a couple hours. I just couldn't trust that my body would necessarily wake up anymore.

And no, my room was locked, and others didn't have a key to well...

[LORD-eX-Bu]

rofl! don't worry Psycho, this has happened to me many times:D Eventually, you just get used to all the extra showers:p

[Phyre]

Okay, here's one for ya.

Back in the days of college, I would stay up studying for many a test. One time, I had been studying for an analog test and went to bed about two hours before the exam. My alarm goes off, and I attempt to hit the snooze button. Problem was that I couldn't exactly find out where the noise was coming from. And, on top of that, I was looking for the correct op-amp to turn the thing off.

Another time, I woke up and looked straight at my alarm and though I was looking at a fighter selection screen for a fighter game.

Weird things can happen in that realm of half asleep, half awake realm of sleep depravation.

Whew!

Phyre

[sytaylor]

The weird one for me is going to ibiza... its only one timezone away from GMT but the whole place is so nocturnal anyway its like going down under or something...

Even the first night you get there, your never in bed til 5AM of the morning after you set off. So your tired from travelling and up at the earliest by 2pm.. Then you sample the nightlife which doesn't stop, i mean seriously if you wanted you can be out clubbing for 24 hours! Catch some bbc radio 1 goonies, then some bars, then a big club and before you know it the sun is rising... time for bed!

Needless to say i didn't get much of a tan ;)

[UDawg]

Psy that's nothing. I wont share my story. :o

[Mod]

Originally posted by Son Goku

It seems that if I'm really exhausted, I can tend to turn off the alarm without waking up. So after that happened, I tried setting a second alarm clock accross the room, where I couldn't reach it from bed. Only problem is I subconsciously got up out of bed without ever waking up, walked accross the room, turned it off, then climbed back in, put the covers back over me and all, and again...

Why not set 4 or 5 alarm clocks in several different places. You would have some concentration to turn all them off.

[Son Goku]

Originally posted by Mod
Why not set 4 or 5 alarm clocks in several different places. You would have some concentration to turn all them off.

My subconscious would probably be up to the task. As long as I know where I put them (and I do tend to have a rather good memory for such things), then it probably wouldn't be much more for me to unconsciously walk to each one and turn them off. Also, the ear could lead one to each device as it pin-points the direction each comes from. Both my ears and my nose are good at pin-pointing the direction things originate from, as they come to me in 3D if you will...

The funny thing is that I don't tend to sleep walk or anything (normally) and without such obvious and practicable purpose in mind, nor have I woken up in strange locations, no one else has ever said I do, and I have sometimes been lucid during sleep (both had several lucid dreams, and have also been lucid before during non-REM sleep), but nonetheless, when I want to turn an alarm off, I can be very good at this. I seem to be very deliberate in what I'm doing also, though I don't have to wake up to do so.

While asleep, I've even closed a window without waking up (when it gets rather cold), kicked my covers off, and even gotten them up off the floor and put them back on me without waking. In any case, it seems I don't have to be awake to be either aware of what I'm doing, or remain asleep if I'm tired enough, and my body determined enough it will sleep. My body has frustrated me before, when I did want to get up however...

[dohcmark8]

Sleep sucks, why can't there be a pill that keep you awake for weeks at a time, there seems to be a pill for everything from lose 10lbs in an hour to increase your _____ size. But then you would probably die due to lack of rest.

[ALobpreis]

LOL!!!!!!
All these things happen to me too!!
Son Goku, I've been through the experiences you told!! It seems it's very common...

Once I woke up to go to school (when I was about 16), and saw my mother wasn't awake. So I made my breakfast and whatever was necessary without waking her up.
I look at the clock, I'm on time, and go to school. When I'm there, I see there's no one! Only the guy in the door, who asks me "did you fell off the bed?". I look at my digital watch, and see I'm 1 hour soon!!! The clock I saw at home was analog, and it seems I just looked at the minutes, not the hour!! :retard:
Then I came back home, and my mother asks me "where have you been???". :D :D

Other day I was in my brother's room listening to music, and then I fell asleep (about 10PM). Then I woke up and it's 12AM (midnight), but think it's 12PM!! I was worried because I thought I didn't wake up and so didn't go to school!
My brother says it's midnight, that I don't have to worry. He even turns on the radio to make me listen to a program that it's at 12AM. And what did I do?? I say "what? now this program is on noon??" :D :D

Once my brother's digital clock was 1 hour soon, so I had some problem of this kind (which I don't remember exactly). So one day, as "revenge" (in fact it wasn't his fault the other episode), in my father's birthday, at noon, I changed my brother's clock to just some minutes before 11AM. Then I wake him up and tell him that because it's our father's birthday, he wants up to go with him to church (my parents and I went regulary, my brother didn't).
So he gets up, gets dressed and goes down the stairs to go to church. When he reachs the kitchen, he asks "so, are we leaving now?", and everybody looks at him weirdly. He looks at the wall clock, and :eek: . ;) :D :D What a nice laugh (I had ;) ).

[Mod]

Originally posted by Son Goku
My subconscious would probably be up to the task.

Your subcounsious is pretty arrogant. Isn't there any alarm clock in which you had to type a certain number of a given task ? . For example, it would ask you to multiply two numbers random simple numbers(6X7,12X7, for example). You would have to open your eyes and also think just a litle bit

[ALobpreis]

Maybe the best way is to wake up with music. Because it's music, you don't turn it off immediately, and let it sound....
As time passes, you start to wake up slowly, until you are quite self-aware and get up. The important thing is not letting this process last more than 1 hour. :D
For example, I can wake up with the radio or with the hi-fi. I usually don't turn them off. Of course, the volume is at a nice position, not high!

[Son Goku]

Originally posted by Mod
Your subcounsious is pretty arrogant.

Actually arrogance is not an adequite word. Arrogance conotates one who thinks they know more then they do, or assumes they can do something they can't. The doing, proves it can be, or is being done. In that I used to keep my door locked, and I now live in an appartment by myself, there is no one else to play pranks with me. Of course if you want to suggest ghosts, I'm game :D I haven't seen any haunting activities, so umm, nah... hehe

The doing elliminates the possibility of it not being done. My subconscious doesn't say it can do it, no it just does it. Annoying can fit better, as I really do want to get up.

Isn't there any alarm clock in which you had to type a certain number of a given task ? . For example, it would ask you to multiply two numbers random simple numbers(6X7,12X7, for example). You would have to open your eyes and also think just a litle bit

Thus far, all the alarm clocks I have seen only have an on-off switch, along with a snooze button. If you would like to invent one however... But then the problem there might be that some parents might try to give them to their 5 year olds to teach them. However as they need to learn to add before multiplying, the alarm could go off for hours and annoy the father or mother as they need to concentrate to finish something before heading to work. :D :p

[PsychoSy]

Originally posted by UDawg71
Psy that's nothing. I wont share my story. :o

Wuss! :p

From Mod: Why not set 4 or 5 alarm clocks in several different places? You would have some concentration to turn all them off.

Nope. Won't work. Not with me, at least! :angel:

I'd turn off the first clock off correctly as I have enough concentration for that much. :)

Any remaining clocks?

They'd be destroyed! :mad:

Just try to picture me lumbering throughout the entire house wringing a sawwed-off boat oar. :firedevil

[UDawg]

Originally posted by PsychoSy
Wuss! :p

Yes.....

Yes I am. :D

[Ryoko]

i would wake up sometime after my alarm clock should have gone off, until i put the alarm in a shoebox, then woke up the next morning tearing a hole in the shoebox.

[Phyre]

I've even gone so far as to putting an alarm clock on my PC. Sure, it's loud enough, but like psy said, I would turn that one off and go back to snoozing with my other alarm clock. When you are dedicated to snoozing, you're gonna snooze.

Phyre

[Shinri Hikari]

I know the feeling, only gun shots wake me:D and my concentration is better when I am asleep.:rolleyes: Even better than my game concentration if you can believe that.:cool:

[Son Goku]

There is one thing that did manage to wake me up real fast, though no I wouldn't want one of these around my appartment. I think the reader will understand why in a moment.

At camp (back when I was young) there were some people who had a fettish for stealing other people's things. It was at the point people had to engrave their name in their tapes and other sh** to avoid being robbed. (Yes, I think everyone can understand now why I wouldn't want a theif in my appartment.)

Well anyway I was asleep one night, when my bed was approached. Much to the guy's unawareness, while sleeping I ended up putting my hand over the thing. So the guy was reaching down there, but touched my hand instead of the object. I jumped up out of bed stairing at him. At this point he jumped, and with a most embarassed look was like "oh I didn't mean to..." He high tailed it out of my room not knowing quite what to say, and yes acting a bit guilty...