The 'Night Owl' Thread

[Rosella]

Um....because I'm magical. I hope you like it.

[Lollotte]

Thank you. It makes me feel better! 

[Pacman928]

i can't sleep.  i normally can't sleep, but im sick, so i have to sleep.  i need help.

[Deloria]

Go to the Asylum and start running into walls...:p

[Pacman928]

but, won't i go unconcious?

[Jafar]

Same thing!

[Lollotte]

HAHAHA! It is! 

[racx_00]

I've only been getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep for the past couple of weeks. Really sucks but ah well, should be over soon I'm hoping.

[copycat]

No. There are four stages of REM--the phases of sleep. Not the band. 

There could well be four stages of sleep, but only one of them is REM-sleep.

It's 23:40 and (ack! almost forget to listen to 'Studio Dada' on my new (present)  MP3/radio player) minimum temperatures predicted for this night should be maximum temperatures during the day.

Go to the Asylum and start running into walls...:p

Padded walls would be a good choice.

[Lollotte]

Hmmm...the way I learned it, all the stages were REM. Oh, well...someone might've gotten their facts wrong.   

On the East Coast it is approximately 9:20 right now. 

[patrick83301]

There are actually five stages of sleep. 1 and 2 are light sleep. 1 is almost like when you are day dreaming. 3 and 4 are deeper and more resting and harder to awake someone from. The 5th stage is you "REM" stage. This is where you have your vivid dreams and you have Random Eye Movement. You also get the best rest during this stage. I am hoping I remebered all of that correctly from last semester. But there ya go a quick overview on what I had to listen to for two hours.  Lucky you guys.

[Yonkey]

Thanks for the info and for making me .

[patrick83301]

HAHAHA I figured. HAHA

[copycat]

There are actually five stages of sleep. 1 and 2 are light sleep. 1 is almost like when you are day dreaming. 3 and 4 are deeper and more resting and harder to awake someone from. The 5th stage is you "REM" stage. This is where you have your vivid dreams and you have Random Eye Movement. You also get the best rest during this stage.

Stage 1: The eyes are closed during Stage 1 sleep, but if aroused from it, a person may feel as if he or she has not slept. Stage 1 may last for five to 10 minutes.'   'almost day dreaming'.
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It is a fact REM-sleep sorts your memories and thus enhances your mental condition, but I'm not sure that sleep is the best one for your physical condition.
It's 23:10, nearing the end of yet another very hot day.   Also a very tiring day, we went on a boat trip @ work, during which we had to pass three locks, two of them only once, one twice. Since our boat had no priority over commercial shipping, I estimate we had to wait a total of 2 hours (altogether) to be allowed to enter the locks.

[Gilgamesh]

* Falls asleep of all the info *
To much info brain overloaded.
Well that cleared up a lot.

[Lollotte]

Well, there are 4 "NREM" sleep phases(I believe, don't quote me on that )... so that could be the confusion.

Of course, it's only a matter of time until they come up with a new one.

Probably...the handouts I received didn't distinguish between NREM and REM.

And I agree with you completely on your latter point. They'll discover a sixth stage soon enough...maybe that is where lucid dreaming could be categorized. 

[Jafar]

That's where you can kinda control the dream, right? I think I had one of those...I was jumping 50 feet in the air and doing flips.
Another time, I had a dream where I realized I was in a dream, but I still couldn't affect it.

[Lollotte]

Lucid dreaming is when the dreamer has control over their own actions/the ability to affect the course of events during a dream. Usually, there is one character within a dream (the "wild card") whom the dreamer cannot control. Both Jung and Freud (the former was allegedly a lucid dreamer) detail these concepts in their works on dream.

[Rosella]

Those dreams are always cooler. I can't control anyone but me, but if I think someone will react one way, they usually do.

[Lollotte]

If you want to become a lucid dreamer, simply keep a dream journal and record all of your dreams and dream fragments in it. Then, your dreams will become more clearly defined and themes will be more obvious to you. Eventually, you will be able to control them.