Brain vs Body

[StillStunned]

Brain: "Hey! Are you awake?"
Body: "Hmmmm? What time is it?"
Brain: "I don't know. About 4.30am, I think."
Body: "Then why are you waking me up?"
Brain: "I've had a great idea! That story you were struggling with? I know how to get it to move forward."
Body: "Great. Tell me about it in the morning."
Brain: "No, let's go through it now. You see..."
Body (later): "Alright, fair enough. That could work I suppose. Now can we go to sleep again?"
Brain: "Wait! I've just had an idea for an amazing sex scene..."
Body (later): "OK, that's hot. That's really, really hot."
Brain: "I know, right? Makes you just want to climb on top of the redhead and make her scream."
Body: "Good idea! She's right here, after all. Let me just-"
Brain: "Are you nuts? She has to be up in an hour and a half! If you try poking that thing at her now, she'll chop it off! No, just go to sleep."
Body: "I hate you."
Brain: "Why aren't you going to sleep? Come on, we have to be up in a bit!"
Body: "Seriously, I hate you."

 

[onehitwanda]

the fatal error is going to bed while your brain is still alert enough to cause trouble. Gotta starve that demon.

 

[StillStunned]

My brain tends to start dying off around 9pm. By 10pm it's a vegetable. It just regenerates very quickly.

 

[onehitwanda]

That's a turnip for the books.

 

[StillStunned]

Someone should squash the punning out of you.

 

[SimonDoom]

Someone should squash the punning out of you.

Her body's a punderland.

 

[onehitwanda]

Her body's a punderland.

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[AG31]

Brain: "Hey! Are you awake?"
Body: "Hmmmm? What time is it?"

Some of my strategies to shut up my brain.
Concentrate on something totally bland, like a clothes dryer
Concentrate on whatever images show up on the back of my eyelids.*
Don't try to go to sleep. Just let the thoughts come.
Think about anything except stuff that requires planning.
Give up and read a book.
Do that thing where you relax from your toes up. But I pretty much gave up on that some years ago.

* Elsewhere her on AH I've explained how I don't have visual imagery. But this is different. If I literally look out at my closed eyelids, sometimes the black gets pictures in it - not memory pictures, just random pictures, like of a steam shovel.

 

[Hypnobitch01]

ADHD Brain: no need sleep, sleep bad, waste time.

Body: Go away.

ADHD Brain: No Staaaaaaaaay, we think of every mistake ever made, stay awake through guilt and shame.

Body: Fuuuuuuuuck

 

[SimonDoom]

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[ShelbyDawn57]

To sleep perchance to dream,
twas Shakespeare that posed this theme.
Truth be told,
that path has gone cold,
as my brain has decided to scheme.

 

[onehitwanda]

ADHD Brain: no need sleep, sleep bad, waste time.

Body: Go away.

ADHD Brain: No Staaaaaaaaay, we think of every mistake ever made, stay awake through guilt and shame.

Body: Fuuuuuuuuck

Oh, yes, good old Oh-no-o'clock.

 

[StillStunned]

"I need to go back to sleep. But if I fall asleep, it will be morning and I have to get up. So I can just lie here, where it's nice and warm and I don't have to do people things. But I need to go back to sleep. But it's nice and warm and while I'm awake I don't have to get out of bed yet for hours. But if I don't go to sleep it will be worse. But for now it's better. Even so, I really need to go back to sleep..."

 

[Hypnobitch01]

Oh, yes, good old Oh-no-o'clock.

Let’s do a rewind on every shitty thing we’ve ever done! At 2 AM!!!!

 

[Comshaw]

I wish I had the capacity to teach some of the things that come naturally to me, like how to sleep whenever you feel like it. I can't. I can though, like this:


Is it because I have a built-in drill sergeant tyrant in my head?
"Okay, all you damned yappy ass neurons! Lights out god damn it! The next little brain cell I see sending a thought into the conscious side will be rerouted to monitoring autonomic functions for the next month! Let's see how much fun it is to control breathing for a month, "In...out...in...out" while your buddies are fabricating fantastic sex scenes! Yer gunna be firing like a sparkler in a bit anyway when ya' get into the dreamin', so shut the fuck up and get to it!"

I think I can hear him now...nap time.

Comshaw

 

[StillStunned]

I wish I had the capacity to teach some of the things that come naturally to me, like how to sleep whenever you feel like it. I can't. I can though, like this:

There should be a palpable wave of jealousy and hatred coming your way soon. Probably more than one.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Envy, not hatred. Were he in charge of starting a chivaree, hatred is a reasonable response, but he didn't, he's just got mad skillz. So do I but they're more emphasizing 'mad'

 

[Bramblethorn]

I wish I had the capacity to teach some of the things that come naturally to me, like how to sleep whenever you feel like it. I can't.

One of my favourite characterisation moments in Aliens is when they're in the dropship being shaken around and Hicks is just catching a few minutes' sleep.

 

[StillStunned]

One of my favourite characterisation moments in Aliens is when they're in the dropship being shaken around and Hicks is just catching a few minutes' sleep.

In "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison, by the third time jump the main character is already taking naps.

 

[Comshaw]

One of my favourite characterisation moments in Aliens is when they're in the dropship being shaken around and Hicks is just catching a few minutes' sleep.

Everybody thinks that's an impossibility or at a minimum improbable. From my experience, it isn't. A very long time ago in a place over on the other side of the Pacific pond, I was a third-echelon artillery mechanic. That means I was assigned to a contact team that traveled to the firebases to fix the big guns. The first time I went out I got stuck on the FB because of some activity in the area. They gave me a place in one of the bunkers to sleep. I woke about an hour after I went to sleep as a blast shook the bunker. It seems the M107 (175mm gun) which was right outside the bunker was shooting a fire mission directly over the bunker. They fired 150 rounds that night. Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep that night.

The next morning I was complaining to one of the gun crew about it.

His response was, "Oh hell! Give it a month and you'll sleep right through it. And you'll also be able to tell the difference between outgoing and incoming."

He had brown eyes so I assumed he was full of it right up to his eyeballs. Fast forward a couple of months. I was at another FB with an M110 (8" howitzer) firing over the bunker I was sleeping in. I slept right through the entire fire mission. Not only that but his prognostication that I would be able to tell the difference between outgoing and incoming rounds in my sleep proved to be a fact.

That little experience proved one thing to me, that the human mind and body can adapt to some of the most extreme circumstances. So to me, Hicks catching a few zee's on the way down didn't seem to me to be out of the ordinary. Either that or I'm just a big ol' bundle of dead, insensitive nerves. I won't be taking bets on which it is.

Comshaw

 

[Cagivagurl]

Let’s do a rewind on every shitty thing we’ve ever done! At 2 AM!!!!

That would eliminate every good story I have to tell....

 

[gunhilltrain]

Brain: "Hey! Are you awake?"
Body: "Hmmmm? What time is it?"
Brain: "I don't know. About 4.30am, I think."
Body: "Then why are you waking me up?"
Brain: "I've had a great idea! That story you were struggling with? I know how to get it to move forward."
Body: "Great. Tell me about it in the morning."
Brain: "No, let's go through it now. You see..."
Body (later): "Alright, fair enough. That could work I suppose. Now can we go to sleep again?"
Brain: "Wait! I've just had an idea for an amazing sex scene..."
Body (later): "OK, that's hot. That's really, really hot."
Brain: "I know, right? Makes you just want to climb on top of the redhead and make her scream."
Body: "Good idea! She's right here, after all. Let me just-"
Brain: "Are you nuts? She has to be up in an hour and a half! If you try poking that thing at her now, she'll chop it off! No, just go to sleep."
Body: "I hate you."
Brain: "Why aren't you going to sleep? Come on, we have to be up in a bit!"
Body: "Seriously, I hate you."

Do you have to get up for a job in the morning? At what time do you usually get up for that?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Let’s do a rewind on every shitty thing we’ve ever done! At 2 AM!!!!

That's one advantage to being my age. Every dumb and embarrasing thing I've ever done, and that has be done to me, becomes irrelevant. The friends and family I had fifty years ago have passed or I've lost track of them. I still like writing about that time, however.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wish I had the capacity to teach some of the things that come naturally to me, like how to sleep whenever you feel like it. I can't. I can though, like this:
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Is it because I have a built-in drill sergeant tyrant in my head?
"Okay, all you damned yappy ass neurons! Lights out god damn it! The next little brain cell I see sending a thought into the conscious side will be rerouted to monitoring autonomic functions for the next month! Let's see how much fun it is to control breathing for a month, "In...out...in...out" while your buddies are fabricating fantastic sex scenes! Yer gunna be firing like a sparkler in a bit anyway when ya' get into the dreamin', so shut the fuck up and get to it!"

I think I can hear him now...nap time.

Comshaw

Is that really you and your motorcycle?

 

[Britva415]

Brain vs Body

For real, I thought this was going to be about so-called "sapiosexuality."