text | private fail | 5/29

[shiro2hero]

hypothetically


How many days without sleep is ... approaching dangerous levels? Factor in substituting Espresso.

Asking for a friend

Comments

[angewiesen]

My advice is to to do some hard work, preferably out in the sun. Eventually your body will just give out, and you won't have a choice in the matter.

[shiro2hero]

Well we've been camping and hiking for a few days now

Guess it'll happen... sooner than later?

[angewiesen]

And is there any particular reason why your friend can't sleep?

[shiro2hero]

Not sure. They haven't told me.

Hard to turn their brain off, I think.

[angewiesen]

If that's the case, some thoughts are more dangerous than others. It might seem like a lost cause, but try to think of some kind of complicated problem instead. Not personal problems, but something like science or math. Sometimes you can drown stuff out in mental white noise.

[shiro2hero]

Solve a physics problem in my head to fall asleep?

I've got to say, that's a new one.

[angewiesen]

"My head"?

[shiro2hero]

I'm complimenting you, stop.

[angewiesen]

The setup was perfect, couldn't help myself.

[shiro2hero]

Fine, fine...

You win.

[angewiesen]

It was kind of an unfair fight to begin with, if you're working on no sleep.

Why not just say you can't sleep? Everyone deals with that, it's not like anyone would be bothered to hear it.

[shiro2hero]

You would be surprised how poorly that goes over when it's coming from me.

[angewiesen]

Really? I can't imagine anyone giving you shit about it.

[shiro2hero]

Look through the responses.

[angewiesen]

[There's a short pause, so you know he did actually go and look back]

Okay, some of you are poking at you a little, but most of them just seem concerned. When I say "shit" I mean something that calls for a deck in the face.

[shiro2hero]

Oh

Yeah that isn't something that generally happens.

[angewiesen]

Do you really hate attention so much that people being concerned bothers you?

[Oh Jean, you still have much to learn about this man.]

[shiro2hero]

It's... just not necessary right now

[angewiesen]

I can get wanting to keep it to yourself, but not sleeping for days is kind of alarming. Especially when there's nothing immediately dangerous going on right now.

[shiro2hero]

Yeah well. That's par for the course on my end.

[angewiesen]

Old war wounds?

[shiro2hero]

Mm. Something like that.

[angewiesen]

Yeah. Some of those never totally heal over. Or they open back up at weird times. Can't say I haven't been there.

[shiro2hero]

Yeah

Yeah I can imagine have.

[angewiesen]

You've got people here that fought beside you, right? Getting a different perspective from their point of view might help.