Does anyone else find the concept of sleep mental?

[vivi45]

Probably a very weird thought process but I’m just laying here, ready to go to sleep thinking how strange it is that we spend so much of our life unconscious. If I sleep from 11pm-7am which is normal for me, I will have slept the equivalent of my work day. All of the things I’ve done during the day, meals I’ve eaten, people I’ve spoken to, places I’ve been - and I’ll spend that same amount of time just laid in bed asleep. Also find it weird how the world just carries on while we are oblivious to it.

Sorry I know this is incredibly random 😂

Sometimes the morning snooze feels like I’ve been back to sleep for ages but really it’s just a few minutes.
Perception of time…that’s another odd thing.

Money is a unit of labour.
You earn it, and you pay it back out for someone else's labour.

You buy say an Apple.
What are you ACTUALLY playing for?
The tree didn't charge for it.
You are paying for the time the person harvested it.
The time it too the truck to get it to the shop.
The shop staff who put it on the shelf
The shop time to serve you.

And someone will jump in and say what about the cost of the actual shop.
Everything can be calculated back to a unit of labour. The electricity your paying for the power station at the end of the line.

What blows my mind is digital money. Numbers on a screen.

Love this thread!
Is there anyone else who regularly has deja vu? More so when I was younger but it still happens.

I've read the scientific reason that they believe it happens but it doesn't feel right to me.
When I was a teenager, it happened so often and no one really believed me, when I said I'm having deja vu. I told my best mate at the time, I dreamt about us walking along this particular road, about three particular people (I didn't know them at the time) about such and such. About six months later, as we were walking down that road, having that conversation about the three lads we'd met earlier, talking about what I said we'd been talking about, I said, 'remember that dream I had?!' and she did! And it happened quite for weird how I dreamt it.
I was soooooo glad I finally proved it to someone 🤣

How did I make it to 36 without even realising the September=seven, October = 8 etc thing?!! That's crazy! Also, who decided that February would only get 28/29n days while other months get 31? Why not make Feb 30/31 and lop a day each off January and March?

I hate the fact that I can wake up from a dream, and whilst I know what it is as I am awakening, within 2 minutes I cannot for the life of me remember. How does that work?

That and the fact that 40 years after I last did exams of any description I still regularly have nightmares where I am hopelessly unprepared for them and know I am going to fail (which is odd, because I never did at school/uni.)

Yep and I think it's crazy if I don't get my 8 hours how it ruins the day before it's even started.
I also think I spend far longer in my bed counting the not sleeping time too. It could easily be 10 hours playing on my phone before, having a cuppa in the morning etc. Definitely not skimping on my next bed purchase, spend enough of my life in it 🤣

I think if families always told each other their dreams they'd eb surprised at how often they share a particular theme on a given night. It's often the case with me and my mum. Not always even something I dream, but something I watch late at night after she's already asleep will have an impact on her dreams. It happened a couple of nights ago when I watched something about the 2004 tsunami. Low and behold she dreamed about it that night!

Does anyone else find the concept of sleep mental?

Oh yes, absolutely 😂

Other things I find mental and think about often:

• How we ever existed. (I’m an atheist so don’t believe that “God” created the world and Adam and Eve). How did the earth become the earth? What was here before earth? Was there a before?
• Languages. When humans started developing who decided what combination of sounds meant what. As different languages evolved who translated them? How did they know how?
• The internet. Data. How was it made? What do you mean I can sit in my house in England and FaceTime my friend on the other side of the world in Aus.

Professionally mind boggled.

⬆️ Languages is an interesting one. Also accents.

I can time myself to wake up two minutes before the alarm goes off. It's very strange and DP finds it quite disturbing. He didn't believe me until he witnessed me waking up exactly when I said I would. The alarm varies as well, could be set for 6.30 or 7, it doesn't matter. It also annoys him that I can be asleep within 5 minutes and he's there for at least an hour.

I suffer from insomnia. Sleep is my favourite thing. You’re right, it’s weird. When you’re asleep anything could happen to you.

Perception of time gets me too. Everyday in fact. Running my life around a clock. I feel like it's how we get society to run but it's far more natural to sleep when I feel tired, wake up when I feel rested, not have to act because some numbers on a screen tells me it's time 😅 and feeling guilty if I've "overslept" because those numbers are different ha

They lopped a day off Feb and gave it to August hence July and August both have 31 something to with whoever August was named after having a moan he was more important than Feb. Or at least that's the gist of what my primary teacher said. Hope shes right

At one point they went 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 etc
But July and August are both 31

It’s funny how we just lay down and basically charge overnight like an iPhone 😂

I would love to sleep without dreams. Always so bloody weird. Fuck you, paroxetine.

@Needspaceforlego @SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter I read that it's due to the Roman calendar, which started in February, not January. Wonder what the actual reason is!

Absolutely not! I love sleep far too much! Honestly nothing makes me smile like a nap 😂

Evolutionary design.. isn't that contradictory. You can't have design without a designer.

Our need for sleep is a reminder that we are finite whereas our Creator is not.

It’s actually amazing that we have survived as a species because being unconscious for 1/3 of a day particularly in cave man times makes us extremely vulnerable.
sometimes I think about the whole housing market that has evolved just to give us somewhere safe to sleep!!

Honestly, I've stopped recently looking at my mobe in bed, Nowadays I look on it as part of retirement. Leave that shit for another day! 😁But seriously, I think I'm all the better for it.

one thing I love about apps like TikTok that have live streams.. when I was young and couldn’t sleep and it was the middle of the night all dark and eerily silent, I liked to think about the fact elsewhere in the world it was daytime and there were people sat outside cafes on busy streets eating lunch or whatever that very second. It was comforting but it always seemed like such an abstract concept. I love that now I can open my phone, go on the live section of TikTok and just scroll through and see all those people in real time.

I don't enjoy going to sleep. I don't have trouble getting to sleep, but for some odd reason I'm just not comfortable with it.

Anyone get hypnogogic hallucinations or exploding head syndrome?

I think about this stuff too.

We are so “always on” in our day to day lives but somehow we are happy to be asleep for hours leaving our vulnerable children alone and out of earshot/ sight/ consciousness once they get to about 1. Them crying out doesn’t count because we don’t always hear them.

I also find it mind blowing that no-one really knows why we need sleep and can’t do without it. Why people die after a few days of total sleep deprivation. That I find really weird. We know why people die without food and water, we know the mechanisms: we don’t know the mechanisms for sleep deprivation.

Oh my god, you are literally me.

I feel this probably tells us something important about how we need to reform high stakes assessment and schooling. This cannot be healthy. I’m in my 50s!

I have exam stress dreams too