"I barely sleep. :P The results are strange."

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"I barely sleep. :P The results are strange."

But strange is good. We like strange.

That said, if you do want a cure for insomnia... eat more popcorn. It releases tryptophan, which in turn helps with the secretion of melatonin, which is the stuff that knocks you out. Unless I've got my terms mixed up, in which case you'll just turn black...

Oh and on the subject of strange...

"Manage to go to toilet pants man" indeed!

PsyGremlinKhuluma!15:45, 4 January 2012

I suspect it's all the clicking in your head. ;-) (I can't even wrap my tongue around a "by rote" sentence drilled into me with a 'click' in it.)

for insomnia, I find that banging my head long enough to give me a concussion works. ;-)


Actually, if you are serious, new techniques are being studied with great success, that literally exhaust you first (and establish hard core rules for your body), then sorta reset your clock. In effect, you say to yourself "I will sleep between 12pm and 6 am (always 6 hours, not sure why). You ONLY use your bedroom for sleep. You do other things till 12 (including getting ready for bed) then at exactly 12, you go to bed. if you do not fall asleep in 30 (?) minutes, you get up and STAY OUT OF THE BED ROOM AN AWAKE for 4 hours, and try again. Under no circumstance do you sleep past 6am. even if you are exhausted. You become a bitch for like a week or two, but it really seems to be one of the best ways to reset yourself. Of course, you need to be at a place in your life where you can have such strict hours.

Pink mowse.pngGodotEn live16:37, 4 January 2012

On the subject of clicking, our gardener taught me Zulu tongue twisters when I was a kid, to get the hang of the clicks. The first, using the !q click is:

  • Ingqeqebulane yaqaqela uqhoqhoqho, uqhoqhoqho waqaqela iqaqa, iqaqa laqalaza. (The storyteller warmed up his throat, this woke up the skunk that looked around in amazement) - every q is a click, made by pulling your tongue away from the roof of your mouth, like you're geeing on a horse.

Then there's the !x click - made by parting your teeth slightly, pressing your tongue against them, then pulling it back. Almost like making a "tsk" sound of disapproval.

  • Amaxoxo ayaxokozela exoxa ngoxamu exhibeni. (The frogs are gossiping loudly about the big lizard)

And then there's Miriam Makeba:

PsyGremlinKhuluma!17:01, 4 January 2012

OK, very unlinguistic of me, but that sounds lovely in music cause it sounds like part of the rythem, not the language. I can make both clicks, just not as part of actual words. :-)

Pink mowse.pngGodotEn live18:07, 4 January 2012
 
 

Wow: 「うんちぐバイバイ。」 literaly means "Goodbye, piece of shit!"

ʤɱ soviet17:30, 4 January 2012

Hahaha. Yeeeep.

Dumpling (talk)02:35, 5 January 2012
 

Hahaha. I've seen the Toilet song thing when I was little actually. I forgot the show. Gave me unrealistic expectations. Tsk tsk.

Anyways, 'strange' is a maybe a good thing? Considering I've been awake since Monday afternoon, I'm starting to get really weird...and I can feel it. I just want to say really random things and cuddle up to people and make them pat my head or wrap myself up in layers of blankets and go into the corner of my bed and knock out for a couple of hours. (No more than 4, because my body start to wake me up in intervals of 30 minutes and really painful leg cramps.) And I've tried getting myself into a schedule, but that's not...really...possible with me at the current moment and the way things are with me.. Though I have tried, and I do get a bit 'bitchy', but the rest is good. Apparently sleeping with something cold helps.

...And clicking is really hard to for me to do in general, so doing that as part of the actual words would be hard. But the song really is lovely.

Dumpling (talk)02:34, 5 January 2012

That's really worrying. The sleeping thing, not the not-clicking thing, of course.

ʤɱ soviet15:07, 5 January 2012

Eh. It used to be worse. O________O...But I'm working on it. Not exactly the most normal of sleep cycles, but still working on it. Hahaha.

Dumpling (talk)20:18, 5 January 2012
 
I've seen the Toilet song thing when I was little actually. Gave me unrealistic expectations.

I'm too afraid to even ask, having watched the clip... {-_-;}

PsyGremlinKhuluma!15:17, 5 January 2012

Well, Sesame Street gave me unrealistic expectations that learning was going to be fun. But it wasn't...which eventually led me to doodle and talk to my fingers, each having a funny face scribbled on. The Toilet song, along with many other children songs, led me to expect that inanimate objects could talk---which led me to talk to them. I don't think that's so much...scary, than it is rather amusing. Or if you're my grandfather amused/worried.

Dumpling (talk)20:21, 5 January 2012
 
 

Just gonna leave this here.

AHAHAHA! I feel like I have to beat that...

Dumpling (talk)20:43, 5 January 2012

Bah. You speak of portable toilets? I can top that.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.02:57, 6 January 2012

Hahahaha. FANCY POOP. Wow. Very Nice Stabby. Very Nice.

Dumpling (talk)07:01, 6 January 2012