your mind when your sick
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Why is that worrying? Every kitten has a right for their cupcakes!Harley Q said:
OT: I'm usually quite energetic and aware when I'm sick because I am really weird that way. I spent a whole day with my dad when I was a kid while having a pretty high fever. However there have been twice when I've been really out of it and I've actually had some strange hallucinations. The first time that happened I was sick throughout the entire Easter (yay, out of school and I'm sick for the whole week) and I walked into the bathroom at night and there was a forest there. The shower, toilet, sink and washing machine was still there, but the walls were replaced by trees and some small paths.
The second time this happened was once when I got food poisoned by some bad meat and I woke up in the middle of the night seeing strange colours and the walls were melting. That was pretty bad too.
Once when I was sick I had a dream that I was riding Yoshi through one of the levels in Super Mario Bros. I woke up and fell asleep atleast 5 times that night and every time the dream restarted.
When I have a bad fever I will hear voices. Just endless voices saying things I don't give a shit about. The problem is that they just won't shut up! LET ME SLEEP! LET ME REST!
I'm not insane, I just get weird during intense fevers....
I'm not insane, I just get weird during intense fevers....
That often happens to me when I wake up in the knight and am not properly awake. My mind will race away and suddenly I think "WTF was I thinking about?"DrRockor said:
Also when I'm ill I have the most fucked up dreams.
Actually its just fever dreams, its a state where you're continuing to wake up during REM sleep so you actually remember your dreams and there seem to be more of them. This phenomena can be seen in other cases where you continue to wake up, such as when you're under the influence of medication or illegal drugs. In fact "tripping" on drugs does a very similar thing to your brain, neurons fire off out of order and your brain tries to make sense of it.
REM sleep is pretty much your brain organizing short term memory into long term memory for easier storage/retrieval and its randomly firing off neurons to find other memories to connect them to, this doesn't have anything to do with what you see in a dream but your brain tries to make sense of these firings (sort of like trying to find images in clouds or stars, but a little differently) when you wake up for some reason you tend to remember these random stories your brain makes up and we call them dreams.
Then again this is all speculation.
REM sleep is pretty much your brain organizing short term memory into long term memory for easier storage/retrieval and its randomly firing off neurons to find other memories to connect them to, this doesn't have anything to do with what you see in a dream but your brain tries to make sense of these firings (sort of like trying to find images in clouds or stars, but a little differently) when you wake up for some reason you tend to remember these random stories your brain makes up and we call them dreams.
Then again this is all speculation.
When I had the flu when I was around 6, I started hallucinating. My family walked into the room carrying what looked like a pile of concrete blocks, and they were making this horrendous noise. Then I was convinced I was falling off my grandma's knee even though she had laid me down next to her. It was weird!
When I went to the US last summer I had really early flights so barely got any sleep before I went. When I got there, I slept for 14 hours straight and when I woke up I was told that I'd said something about sharks being great just before I dropped off. I remember it made perfect sense at the time, but when I was back to a conscious state I wondered what on earth had caused me to say it.
When I went to the US last summer I had really early flights so barely got any sleep before I went. When I got there, I slept for 14 hours straight and when I woke up I was told that I'd said something about sharks being great just before I dropped off. I remember it made perfect sense at the time, but when I was back to a conscious state I wondered what on earth had caused me to say it.
My sense of space is really messed up when I'm sick. I don't have good depth perception already due to one eye muscle that is very weak and astigmatism. So when I'm really sick, hallways and the like appear much longer.
I always have very strong lucid dreams, but when sick they degenerate to an action repeated over and over. For example, playing chess with someone who constantly does a re-do when a turn doesn't go in there favor.... for hours and hours.
I always have very strong lucid dreams, but when sick they degenerate to an action repeated over and over. For example, playing chess with someone who constantly does a re-do when a turn doesn't go in there favor.... for hours and hours.
the only time I get weird stuff like that is when I have drunk alot. I dream of being in tortured but wake up refreshed*.
*once I had a three day headache though after drinking three quarters of bottle of bourbon
*once I had a three day headache though after drinking three quarters of bottle of bourbon
When I'm sick, my mind doesn't really produce weird thougths, maybe some weird dreams, but my mind usually creates weird dreams... However, when I am sick, I get a lot slower. I don't think fast at all when I'm sick. So learning something while I'm sick, is quite a waste.
Sudafed gives me really intense dreams. It comes from the pseudoephedrine which is an amphetamine (speed). It tends to make the mind race. I hate it because I never feel like I got a good sleep when I take it, but its the only thing that will let me breath at night. Now my dreams are usually in color and detailed (I dream climatically for some reason, with 2 shots, close ups, fly bys, etc) When I'm sick though I start hearing and feeling things. There also seems to be a lot more "background shit" in my dreams. (like buildings, clouds, moving cars, etc) It can be very good or very bad. The nightmares are the worst.
I don't know. Generally, I go to sleep and dream about something, but every ten minutes I wake up and go to sleep. Then I get in a loop where I dream about waking up and falling asleep, then I actually wake up and fall asleep, then repeat a few times and then for some reason I dream about ordering a pizza...
I've been so sick I thought I was getting up and getting a drink but I was really laying face down on the floor for like 3 hours... also for some reason when I get sick enough that I get only semi delirious but I can still work, then I take a ton of Benylin syrup, and go to work... it's like I have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omYKI8RJaIg playing in my head constantly, and I feel like I'm really happy but really slow for like the entire time, until I sleep then I'm trapped in a state of constant nightmares of which there is no accurate description, until morning, then Benylin, rinse, repeat.
I was running interview type things through my head because I had my first interview in a fortnight, when I got quite feverish for a few days. Having been reading Warhammer 40k books, during my fever I managed to prepare for a slightly different job, to become an inquisitor. Instead of questions like "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" and "When have you worked as part of a team?", I prepared for things more like "How do you feel about Exterminatus?"