I have awoken with rather serious bruisings around my head and upper body, so I may not make total sense in the verbiage that follows. ( No pictures under this link. )
*sigh* Everything I have to say about your very alarming physical symptoms, you have already heard from me before. I worked with a woman who suffered a seizure caused by hypoglycemia, and I have had a few unpleasant moments of sweating and trembling myself after eating only carbs all day...and neither I nor this other lady are diabetic. Sugar SUCKS. I love it, I eat it by the truckload, but it's rubbish, and I know it is responsible for a lot of my own sluggishness, so I dread to think what it is doing to you. I wish I had the means to get you to a GOOD doctor for a complete workup to see exactly what is going on in your brain.
As for the film: Make it, absolutely! If I were a TV exec I would buy it and promote the hell out of it.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where people can say all sorts of ridiculous bullshit about food and never get called out on it. So allow me to reiterate for like the six billionth time: without a constant supply of some sort of sugar, your brain does a very interesting thing. Specifically, it dies. None of what has happened with my brain in recent days would have happened if I had just gotten the balance of sugar perfectly right. The real problem is that they make it too difficult, too unenjoyable, and often too expensive to get a perfect balance of everything else that is needed.
Well, we will see what happens. I am not really counting on even being at the university at the end of the year.
I also am reminded, reading your account of what happens to you in sleep, of the sleep disorders I have heard about. Were you a sleepwalker as a child, do you know?
As far as uni goes, well, get all you can out of it...like you, I am poorly equipped for conventional "studying," since few things I read can compete with my own trains of thought. Like you, I learn best "hands on." And I think in sound bites, crafting the routines all day long in my head, it is the one thing I do every day without even having to discipline myself. *shakes the workplace* Come on, people, find a use for those of us with unusual talents!
No, I did not sleepwalk as a child. In fact, I was a very light sleeper as a child, unable to even get to sleep a lot of nights until very late in the morning.
The biggest problem is that the university is making this big song and dance about open access for all who care to apply, but they fail to understand that you cannot just take someone who has been in chains for most of their lives, put them at the starting blocks, and say here you are, you are now free to compete. It does not, has never, and cannot work like that.
The asshole who said perception is reality quite clearly never tried to stir a pot of boiling water with his hand while on lsd.Ow! Shit, I can only just imagine the shock of waking up to find one has done that. I am very glad now that LSD was pretty much impossible to procure where I lived during my late teens and early twenties. Geez
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Ugh I don't have much insight or input here, but I can imagine (well, no, probably not actually) how scary that is to wake up to such a sight and I also hope that sometime sooner than later there actually WILL be services available. That is just ridiculous how few options there are.
Any insight or input from you is always welcome, of course. And really, after the work you have been doing, I am sure you can at least get some idea of how frightening the losses of consciousness and flash-changes in environment can get. That is more than I would credit most other people with. As for services being available, well, I am going to write the Federal minister some more soon and ask them "Why?". I do not know what else to do anymore, though.
Know any people I can form a Fight Club style organisation with?
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As for the film: Make it, absolutely! If I were a TV exec I would buy it and promote the hell out of it.
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Well, we will see what happens. I am not really counting on even being at the university at the end of the year.
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As far as uni goes, well, get all you can out of it...like you, I am poorly equipped for conventional "studying," since few things I read can compete with my own trains of thought. Like you, I learn best "hands on." And I think in sound bites, crafting the routines all day long in my head, it is the one thing I do every day without even having to discipline myself. *shakes the workplace* Come on, people, find a use for those of us with unusual talents!
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The biggest problem is that the university is making this big song and dance about open access for all who care to apply, but they fail to understand that you cannot just take someone who has been in chains for most of their lives, put them at the starting blocks, and say here you are, you are now free to compete. It does not, has never, and cannot work like that.
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Know any people I can form a Fight Club style organisation with?
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