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Sleep Mailing
Doctors have reported the first case of someone using the internet while asleep, when a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. The 44-year-old woman found out what she had done after a would be guest phoned her about it the next day. While asleep the woman turned on her computer, logged on by typing her username and password then composed and sent three emails. Each mail was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, unformatted and written in strange language. One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only." Another said simply, "What the......." If I had known that researchers were interested in unformatted, rambling email I would have let them read my inbox. They could start a whole new school of medicine.
...It really reads more like she was either drunk or high while writing it, and I hate to use either of those in a stereotypical manner, but I get PLENTY of e-mails from friends who either drink too much or find other excesses, and that's exactly the kind of weird shit that they come up with.
The woman probably went on a bender that included some pills (some sedatives in particular are notorious for causing memory loss) and either isn't willing to admit she did it, thus creating some elaborate lie that's gotten way out of hand, or truly doesn't remember due to the substances and is embarrassed that she lost control. Not that she magically sat down in front of her keyboard and was able to type fully coherent English sentences in e-mails that just happened not to make sense in context.
Look comrade, I show up to your house with The Communist Manifesto and vodka and you make up some lame excuse about "sleep posting". If you didn't want the second underground meeting, you should have just said so! I'm a Slashdotter, I'm used to rejection, there's no need to lead me on and come up with lame excuses at the last minute.
Ambien is definitely a likely culprit.
I took it for a time and one night I emailed to a friend after taking it but before I went to bed. I had no recollection of it afterward. A couple of days later I wrote essentially the same thing to my friend, totally confusing her. That's how I found out about the first message.
It also caused horrible, screaming nightmares that freaked out spouse and our 3 dogs.
I adhere to what I've read elsewhere: If you're gonna take the stuff, take it immediately before going to bed. Don't take it and stick around online or in front of the TV. Do not pass GO and do not collect $200 (although I bet someone is already trying to collect a lot more from the drug company).
samzenpus has done this multiple times, he seems to be pretty bad at posting stuff into the correct section. Either that or (like other people have suggested) it's part of a plot to test us and see if we'll put up with this site slowly turning into digg.
I know I won't hang around when that happens.
Sturgeon was an optimist.
Was your apnea due to you being overweight?
I used to work in a sleep center and all of our apnea patients had at least an extra 30 lbs on them, I would say only about %.0005 were thin.
I would reccomend that if you are carrying around some extra lbs, to ditch them, get some exercise, and you will not nead the machine.
Weight, apnea, sedentary job, especially being as young as you are is not a healthy way to be.
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I have sleep apnea. I'm also very thin. The doctors are always riding my ass to GAIN some weight.
But, yes, you're right. Being overweight is one of the major causes. It's just not the only one.
You might have blocked out idle, so you might not know that the bleed has gone both ways. There have been serious science stories that some editor decided "Hmm, that sounds funny" and put into the idle section.
Check out Homicidal somnambulism.
Yes, people have actually murdered in their sleep, and the defence has been successful in some of these cases.
If someone is actually asleep when they do these things, they have no control or intent, and should have no culpability.
(BTW, my captcha is "victims". Is Slashdot playing jokes on us, now?)
there are two ways to lose weight:
1. exercise more
2. eat less
while you may have trouble with (1) due to your physical injuries, there's no reason you can't do (2).
and, while this is somewhat beside the point, there are quite a few non-impact exercises you could do even with a shot ankle. look it up.
seriously, if you don't want to die younger than you have to, can the excuses and do it.