Lonnehart wrote:
ugh… couldn't sleep at all. Then I start playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and I wake up a couple hours later with my xb360 controller on my lap and the TV showing the match options menu anda message fromone of the players asking why Iwent inactive during a game.
And now I'm finding myself falling asleep typing this. So what causes narcalepsy when you're doing something you're interested in, but you get insomnia when you're doing something boring? And does this mean that if I want to stay awake I have to be constantly bored?
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That sounds more like exhaustion than insomnia or narcolepsy.
My guess is that the reason you're falling asleep is that you tend to expend more energy when you're excited or enjoying yourself, so you feel it more, which in turn triggers the portion of your brain that affects sleep even more. It happens to me all the time when I'm working late at night. I thought there was something wrong with me until I started keeping track of how much sleep I was getting every night and realized my sleep schedule was shot to hell. I was sleeping 4 or 5 hours a night or less for a week and then crashing for 12-14 hours, and as a result I was just over-doing it, trying to keep up the energy expenditure I was making on that amount of sleep.
@ Ayes: It's cool. I just tend to get twitchy when people needle me about work habits or doing something extra. I'm maybe a little too used to people treating my line of work as an illustrator and designer like it's “sitting around doodling all day, having fun”. I'm not saying you are, but a lot of people assume I get to just spend 8 hours a day doing whatever I want and that my time's not worth a whole lot. I get about two or three emails a month from people asking if I'll illustrate their totally awesome comic book that they can't pay me for now, but they'll totally give me 15% when it totally becomes the next Blankets, or if I can design their company logo for $300. My job is a lot of fun, otherwise I wouldn't put up with the long days and stupid clients, but now as a result of it all, every time anybody gives me crap about doing something, even in jest, I hear the sound a cat makes when you submerge it in water, in my head.