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Study: Waking Up Like Being Drunk
Ant writes "CNN reports that "sleep inertia" leaves some people so groggy, after they wake up, they might as well be drunk, researchers said on Tuesday. "For a short period, at least, the effects of sleep inertia may be as bad as or worse than being legally drunk," said researcher Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado at Boulder."
I didn't get smashed last night, I just wake up drunk, honest!
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So remember folks: If you fall asleep while driving it's very important that you don't attempt to wake up.
Shorry, I dinnt unnerstan that. Where's my damn coffee?
I have this stupid little dog that keeps waking up at night and yipping with this ear-piercing yelp. Something about taking a piss. I hate that little dog. Damn activists would have me in jail if I shot her, though.
So where's that coffee? Oh, here it is. Ahh.
Wow, what a stupid post. Better not press Submi...
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
So if you drink a lot before you go to sleep, and you wake up drunk, the two effects cancel each other out. So drink heavily every night and you'll be fine!
... waking up should be forbidden for persons younger than 21 years ;o)
There is evidence that the cortical areas of the brain thought to be responsible for problem-solving, complex thought and emotions take longer to wake up than other parts of the brain, Wright wrote.
Problem Solving? COMPLEX THOUGHT?! EMOTIONS!?!?!?
Fuck that! I'm goin' back to bed!
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
... but I have a shot or two in the morning, just to be shure.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Did it really take a team of scientists to figure this out?
Scientist: Hey Bob I have an idea for a research proposal, but I'm going to need a big grant.
Boss: What's your idea?
Scientist: Well I want to study the effects of waking up.
Boss: Is this just an excuse for why you are always sleeping at your desk?
Scientist: *Looks guilty* N..No! I want to compare the effects to um.. Drunk Driving! Yeah I want to compare the effects of waking up to Drunk Driving thats it!
chown -R us
And "legally blind" means your vision is just barely good enough to drive a car?
...and dreamt of being at a Black Sabbath concert. They were grinding out "Iron Man", and I was in front, doing some mighty head-banging.
Things turned literal when my head met the window sill against which my bed lay.
I became semi-conscious, with blood streaming from my forhead, but couldn't move well because my right arm was still asleep.
Almost deathly so: my sleeping position had cut off circulation to the arm, apparently for a long time. The Sabbath dream had been my subconscious trying to 'rock' me into a different position. Later, when my arm functioned again and the bleeding stopped I thought, wow, that would have been pretty funny, if it hadn't happened to me...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
Yeah but do you have scientific evidence that common sense exists?
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
...ever woken up still drunk? I remember doing so after my mate Frank's stag do. Got downstairs, drank some water, out of the house to Fulham High Road to a coffeeshop, bought coffee and a Sunday paper, sat down and realised that (a) I couldn't read and (b) I forgot shoes.
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
For a short period, at least, the effects of sleep inertia may be as bad as or worse than being legally drunk," said researcher Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado.
Is this one of these scientific tests that involve lots of alcohol and plenty of sleeping?
Was this experiment by any chance conducted by The Maximegallon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious? (Mostly Harmless, Chapter 6)
I must disagree with the article.
I hate waking up.
Perhaps you should find some other place to conduct that procedure. Most slashdotters do it in front of their PC at night, I think.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Sorry. I just woke up.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
You mean you shower? :o :o Every morning? :o ooops this place has changed radically lately :|
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Next up, a study that shows that if you put your head between your legs for a few minutes and then sit up really, really fast you get light headed.
Will the miracle discoveries of science never cease?
KFG
Well, I moved my alarm clock to my neigbour's house and it worked great for me.
I haven't been to work since.
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Yeah actually the feeling i feel when i wake up is more like being drunk (as in glass of water) than being drunk (as in beer)
p.s. i hate you for posting that DA reference first
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I always thought that I am more productive after a few hours of nap in the afternoon. This study is going to spoil my productivity.
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. -Nathaniel Lee
Leela: Look at that 5 o'clock rust. Bender, you've been up all night not drinking, haven't you?!
Bender: Hey, what I don't do is none of your business!
Leela: Please, Bender, have some malt liquor. If not for yourself, then for the people who love you.
I'm always tired when I get to work,
yet the women I work with are consistently unattractive all day long.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Obligatory quote: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra
Do you ever hear about their crack team of investigative reporters?
Just the thought of that gives me the willies. I think I'm more comfortable with "slashdot's team of investigative reporters on crack."
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
On holiday with friends, we got into the habit of a group of us suddenly waking someone up and asking stupid questions or saying stupid stuff.
"Wake Up!!! Wake Up!!! What's the captial of Paris? What's the captial of Paris? What's the captial of Paris?"
"Uhh, duhhh, uhhh, France!, uhh, no, no, Paris, uhh France?"
or even
"Wake Up!!! Wake Up!!! The Zebras have escaped!! The Zebras have escaped!! The Zebras have escaped!!"
"Uhh, uhh, Zebras, oh no, shit, Zebras, where, no, shit, what, Zebras?"
There's definatly a period of a few seconds after waking up when you have no idea what's going on around you. (And it's even worse when a bunch of gits start taking advantage of the fact.)
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You need to take into account what he's doing there. I doubt the purpose is getting clean.
5, insightful, I think the moderators just woke up.
My theory is there's a boot-period for your brain just like a boot period when your computer turns on. The first five minutes after waking is POST, kernel module loading, login, starting the desktop...
For some reason I'm reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw:
Beer! It's the reason I get up in the afternoon!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Oh yeah, she loved it when I'd scrabble around frantically in the dark for a few seconds and then ask, "Where's my weapon? Where's my weapon?" ;)
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.