Can wrist braces help with insomnia?

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The thread discusses insomnia, with participants sharing personal experiences and thoughts on sleep, entertainment during sleepless nights, and various topics related to their lives, including college and notable figures in academia.

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  • Some participants express a strong dislike for sleep due to nightmares and prefer to stay awake, sharing their personal struggles with insomnia.
  • There are humorous exchanges about the timing of posts and the nature of their conversations, with some participants feeling isolated in their insomnia.
  • Participants discuss their entertainment choices during sleepless nights, including movies like "Kill Bill," which leads to debates about its quality and their viewing habits.
  • There are discussions about college experiences, future plans, and the uncertainty surrounding educational paths, with some participants contemplating gap years or manual labor as a means to decide on their futures.
  • Notable figures such as Noam Chomsky and Richard Feynman are mentioned, leading to discussions about their contributions and the participants' interests in their work.
  • Some participants express confusion about the academic backgrounds of these figures, leading to clarifications and corrections regarding their histories.

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The discussion contains multiple competing views on the value of movies, personal experiences with insomnia, and differing opinions on educational paths. There is no consensus on any specific topic, as participants share varied perspectives and experiences.

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Participants' claims about their experiences with insomnia and entertainment choices are subjective and may not reflect broader trends or research on sleep. Discussions about academic figures include varying levels of familiarity and understanding among participants.

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This thread may be of interest to individuals experiencing insomnia, those contemplating college decisions, or anyone interested in discussions about notable academic figures and their influence.

Do you have Insomnia?

  • Yes, now tell me more about this sleep you speak of...

    Votes: 12 80.0%
  • Zzzz.....

    Votes: 3 20.0%

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Well, its 3:34 am, so i'd post a new Insomnia thread:

Any other hardcore insomniacs?

I hate sleep personally. Too many nightmares. So i avoid sleep as much as i possibly can, and try never to be in anything but the lightest sleep, otherwise i tend to wake up screaming, or even just screaming in my sleep. Sucks for my roommate.
 
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3:54, I just gave up trying.
 
3:54 Am

All these people lurking and viewing but not posting. Driving me and my refresh button insane. Somebody post something somewhere please? Conversations with myself are fun, but they get me sent back to the place with the padded walls. I'm told they miss me there.
 
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Smurf said:
3:54, I just gave up trying.


FINALLY!

A life sign!

I'm not alone in the universe!

[/joygasm]
 
hmm, it seems our minutes are off by about 5, we've got all night, let's sort that out.
 
Smurf said:
hmm, it seems our minutes are off by about 5, we've got all night, let's sort that out.

nah i was just rounding, my clock says 3:59 currently
 
ah ok, mine too.
Shame, that would've been something to do.
 
This is almost as fast as instant messaging.

I don't what's more sad. That fact, or that i find that fact amusing.
 
The Amusing Part.
 
  • #10
Smurf said:
The Amusing Part.

Hey its been some 25, 26 hours without sleep,i'm allowed to be entertained by the unentertaining. Especially with Kill Bill soundtracks playing in the background.
 
  • #11
Eeeww Kill Bill, that's one of the suckiest movies I've ever not seen.
 
  • #12
Smurf said:
Eeeww Kill Bill, that's one of the suckiest movies I've ever not seen.

Blasphemy!

That movie (and i mean both of them combined) is a masterpiece. The first volume even just for cinematography and music coordination as well as fight choreography, and the second for just about everything.

The Pai-Mei sequence is unholy. As are some of the shots in the house of blue leaves. And the end credits of vol 2 to "Malaguena Salerosa" look and sound sooo cool.

yeha I'm a little obsessed. I've watched the whole movie at least 15 times, maybe more.
 
  • #13
I don't think I've ever watched a single movie 15 times... I don't even know if I've watched 15 movies in my entire life.
 
  • #14
Smurf said:
I don't think I've ever watched a single movie 15 times... I don't even know if I've watched 15 movies in my entire life.


Lol.

Its the only movie I've bought since moving away from the parents' house, and i watch one of the two almost at least every day. They're just so awesome.
 
  • #15
How long have you been out of your parent's house?
 
  • #16
Smurf said:
How long have you been out of your parent's house?

Since september.
 
  • #17
Ah ok, are you in college then? I still don't know what/where I want to do/go when I graduate (I'm in grade 12) so I'll probably end up doing a gap year.
 
  • #18
Yeah, I moved into the dorms in september, its my freshman year. Yeah, if you don't know what you want to do by nowits getting close to public uni deadlines (here anyway, they're anyday now i think).
 
  • #19
My grades arn't good enough for University, I suppose I could do it if I take a year at North Island first, but like I said, I don't even know what I want to do.
 
  • #20
Well figuring out what you want to do whould be the first choice. Although, try a summer of manual labour. Odds are you'll decide very quickly you'd rather go to college. Worked for every other person i knew who wasn't sure what they wanted to do. they very quickly decided that unskilled labour was not it, whatever it was.
 
  • #21
hehe, well secondary education it is... but what courses, that is the question!
 
  • #22
Smurf said:
hehe, well secondary education it is... but what courses, that is the question!


Well at most colleges you ahve a while to decide what you want to major in. Mine is something of an exception to that rule. You start in your major immediately here, and general educationis spread out over all four years.
 
  • #23
say franz, have you ever been to massechusets? what's it like there?
 
  • #24
No I've never been there. But i have friends going to collegenear boston. They're complainingabout the cold rightnow. But then again we're all from the California desert.
 
  • #25
Where were you guys three hours ago? I gave up and had to watch C-SPAN. What's worse, it was a hearing I had already seen.
 
  • #26
3 hours ago would have been 1 o clock.. I was re-organizing my music files.
 
  • #27
I was in Massachusetts the summer before last... lived a few minutes from MIT- the reason I moved there. Anyway, it was nice- interesting architecture, easy to get around, Cambridge police are great, plenty to do...
 
  • #28
I was downloading music and organizingit, ironicallyenough. And laundry. I needed clothes for the next sunrise time.
 
  • #29
hehe, I am considering going to MIT, purely because of Noam Chomsky :-p
 
  • #30
Noam Chomsky?
 

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