Do you ever fall asleep and keep on typing?

[Zeb_Carter]

Not trying to start a competition. I just liked the C130s better. It was a nice sound. C5s didn't sound so nice. They snuck up on you. You wouldn't hear them coming until there you heard the scream, and there it was, blocking out the sun.

After I moved away, my parents moved to a development with train tracks running just below it. That was a nice sound too.

Now all I hear is enormous trucks cutting down our country road to save five minutes of driving.

I miss the planes.

No argument, the likes and dislikes of plane noise is subjective.

When I was stationed in Korea, the drone of the C-130's warming up on the ramp woke me every morning, yet the roar of the F-4's taking off didn't.

 

[patientlee]

No argument, the likes and dislikes of plane noise is subjective.

When I was stationed in Korea, the drone of the C-130's warming up on the ramp woke me every morning, yet the roar of the F-4's taking off didn't.

Likes and dislikes of plane noise. Not a conversation I thought I'd have this week.

The noise I'm currently enjoying is spin cycle on my brand new washing machine. Since I haven't done laundry in two weeks since the old one broke, I'll be hearing it all night long.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Likes and dislikes of plane noise. Not a conversation I thought I'd have this week.

The noise I'm currently enjoying is spin cycle on my brand new washing machine. Since I haven't done laundry in two weeks since the old one broke, I'll be hearing it all night long.

Never can tell where a thread will take you here on Lit.

 

[49greg]

I grew up next to an Air Force base. I actually miss the drone of the 130s. Not so much the scream of the C-5s.

I grew up in various places in Asia - dad got on with an airline after WW2. As I kid we always seemed to live near airports. I got so used to the drone/roar/prop noise of the old airliners - DC6/7, Connies, Boeing 377 stratocruisers etc., that they were almost a lullaby at night.

Then we moved again and lived right under the landing pattern about the time they started using jets. I remember the scream of the B.O.A.C (precursor to British Airways) Comet 4s. We had to stop talking. The Boeing 707/720 series came right after the Comets, but didn't seem as loud in my memory. They also stopped conversation, eventually we got used to it. Come to think of it the RAF Hawker Hunters based there seemed just as loud as all four engines of the airliners.

 

[49greg]

Sorry, no, I do my sleeping in bed and my writing at my desk and never the two shall meet.

The only place I was ever able to truly sleep sitting up was on airplanes and then there had to be turbulence. I loved to sleep during bumpy rides in aircraft. I always slept great on C130's during storms.

I do my writing in the easy chair, and sometimes I fall asleep there but never write anything. I do remember once in the army bedding down one night "in the field" after walking/crawling/running all day on a field exercise, I was exhausted but also starving, so when I crawled into my fartsack I started chewing on some beef jerky. When someone came by to wake me up for my turn at guard duty in the middle of the night I still had a mouthful of semi-chewed beef jerky. I guess the moral of the story is that not only do I not write in my sleep, but I also don't chew in my sleep either.

And while I don't write in bed, I do think about future or current stories, sometimes just as I fall asleep, but more often during that half awake period when I am sort of awake in the morning but just to lazy to actually get out of bed. The problem with that is that I don't fully remember the brilliant ideas that I had.

 

[robertreams]

;The fighter jets are the worst by far, 100s 102s 104s. But the worst of all, by far was the old F89,(except when one of the above went to afterburners) no one could speak on the entire base if one was taking off,

 

[patientlee]

Am I the only person here that wasn't in the military? I've been regretting that decision a lot this week. My 38 y/o little brother retired from the navy last week. I'll have to work until I'm 138. (Don't get me wrong. He deserves it.)

 

[TxRad]

Am I the only person here that wasn't in the military? I've been regretting that decision a lot this week. My 38 y/o little brother retired from the navy last week. I'll have to work until I'm 138. (Don't get me wrong. He deserves it.)

Never speak in hindsight around an ass man, it always makes him twitchy.

Retiring from the service is all well and good if you make it (live) that long.

Too many bullet holes and shrapnel in my body for me to chance it any longer than I did.

 

[patientlee]

Never speak in hindsight around an ass man, it always makes him twitchy.

Retiring from the service is all well and good if you make it (live) that long.

Too many bullet holes and shrapnel in my body for me to chance it any longer than I did.

He almost didn't. Two weeks before what was to be his last deployment, he was in a helicopter crash. They thought he was dead at first, but he was just taking a snooze. He ended up with a horribly broken leg, broken shoulder, broken face, but he has mostly healed and retired, and he's ready to move on.

You are a very funny guy.

 

[TxRad]

He almost didn't. Two weeks before what was to be his last deployment, he was in a helicopter crash. They thought he was dead at first, but he was just taking a snooze. He ended up with a horribly broken leg, broken shoulder, broken face, but he has mostly healed and retired, and he's ready to move on.

You are a very funny guy.

I'm very glad to hear he made it and sorry that it happened to him at the same time.

I hope you mean funny as in HaHa an not just funny looking.

 

[damppanties]

Every single time I read the title of this thread, my brain insists on telling me it is - "Do you ever fall asleep and keep on trying?"

Interesting image there.

 

[patientlee]

I'm very glad to hear he made it and sorry that it happened to him at the same time.

I hope you mean funny as in HaHa an not just funny looking.

I had a very bad feeling about this last deployment. I was pretty sure he wasn't coming home. Once I knew that he survived the crash, I was secretly grateful.

 

[patientlee]

I did it again. I was typing feedback to a cyber student, and I typed, "Make sure your microphone isn't too close to out by the highway." Obviously I meant "isn't too close to your mouth."

Fortunately, I caught it before I hit send.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

I did it again. I was typing feedback to a cyber student, and I typed, "Make sure your microphone isn't too close to out by the highway." Obviously I meant "isn't too close to your mouth."

Fortunately, I caught it before I hit send.

This explains a lot...

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Not while typing, but I did write a whole final exam (in descriptive linguistics) in my sleep. Got a A+ on it.

 

[patientlee]

Oops. I did it again.

I was typing a PM. I'm pretty sure I was going for "way back when." It came out "white back salad."

I gotta stop sniffing glue or something.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Milton Erickson MD completed his BA MA and MD degrees simultaneously at the U of Wisconsin. He said he typed in his sleep every nite, the whole time.

That said, I just watched a show about Rainman savants and the marvelous feats they do. Many experience head injuries that afford disparate brain areas to mingle during healing, and the mingling creates new super powers.

 

[MSTarot]

I have that happen after I've been drinking and writing. I'll open up the story the next day to see as much as a full page of writing that I don't remember putting down. Strangely enough, most of the time I keep it.

I read in Stephen King's biography that he did more than a few novels that way.

 

[patientlee]

I read in Stephen King's biography that he did more than a few novels that way.

Yeah. I don't think it works for me though. I woke up with my head on the table at 2:23 AM.

 

[MSTarot]

Yeah. I don't think it works for me though. I woke up with my head on the table at 2:23 AM.

Well, at least it wasn't on the keyboard. When that happens it looks like you have Call of Cthulhu writing on your forehead.

"fghjk rlghth vbn asdfghj"

 

[patientlee]

Well, at least it wasn't on the keyboard. When that happens it looks like you have Call of Cthulhu writing on your forehead.

"fghjk rlghth vbn asdfghj"

White back salad? Might as well have been that.

 

[Eroticalover1968]

I do my writing in the easy chair, and sometimes I fall asleep there but never write anything. I do remember once in the army bedding down one night "in the field" after walking/crawling/running all day on a field exercise, I was exhausted but also starving, so when I crawled into my fartsack I started chewing on some beef jerky. When someone came by to wake me up for my turn at guard duty in the middle of the night I still had a mouthful of semi-chewed beef jerky. I guess the moral of the story is that not only do I not write in my sleep, but I also don't chew in my sleep either.

And while I don't write in bed, I do think about future or current stories, sometimes just as I fall asleep, but more often during that half awake period when I am sort of awake in the morning but just to lazy to actually get out of bed. The problem with that is that I don't fully remember the brilliant ideas that I had.

LoL @ "fartsack"!!! But semi-seriously now, on the topic of spirits as mentioned earlier, I do my writing in a haunted farmhouse. Maybe I should try letting them type up a story...best ghost writers ever I bet.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I've fallen asleep at my desk a few times, but mostly while listening to my screen resder for excessive lenghts of time. Unrelated to it is the fact that I sometimes find passages in my stuff that make me wonder if I really wrote them. I'm pretty sure I don't have some kind of selective Alzheimer...

 

[Seanathon]

She helped Tina arrange Onion Soup, through the diner in town.

Sounds like a good first sentence for the next FAWC competition.

 

[Hypoxia]

Writing does not put me to sleep; some reading does. Like here. Zzzzz...