This Instant And Moment - 2021!

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nine_tails said:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/

Bugger.. i've had a few bouts of it , very unexplained .. It felt like some one was really pushing me down & i could hear the bed creaking and all. It passed eventually and have not had it for a while.
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I'm 100% sure your never actually awake.
I've had them 50+ times easy, used to go through phases where I would have them a few times a week and then not have any for years.

I think being over tired or having a disrupted sleep pattern is the main cause of them.

but others I think it's your brain detecting a threat and realising you need to wake up and be ready, the fastest way for this to happen is giving you a false awakening dream that's lucid and your pretty much in control of.

the transition to being awake seems to entirely be missing, the only reason you can be sure is if something in the room is different, usually it's really subtle and hard to notice lie there was a gap in the curtains when you were paralysed and now there's not.
A false awakening refers to the strange experience of “waking up” when you actually remain asleep. It can involve vivid, realistic images that leave you feeling anxious and confused. Some people also experience nested dreams, or more than one false awakening on the same occasion.
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I think I had a double one once but I'm not sure.

Glycine receptors (GlyRs) are ligand-gated chloride ion channels that mediate fast inhibitory neurotransmission in the spinal cord and the brainstem. There, they are mainly involved in motor control and pain perception in the adult
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Peever, PhD, found that the neurotransmitters gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine caused REM sleep paralysis in rats by "switching off" the specialized cells in the brain that allow muscles to be active. This finding reversed earlier beliefs that glycine was a lone inhibitor of these motor neurons.
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When your asleep you really are paralysed like if someone snapped your spinal cord :eek:

Scientists be like "let's learn how to switch rats off" wonder if anyone ever tried it on a human gone wrong and they ended up stuck in REM paralysis
 
Oh worst one I had was I woke up got up realised I was still asleep, woke up got up realised I was still asleep.

I mad it a few steps off the sofa each time panicking more and more as I was completely consciously aware I was asleep but couldn't wake up
 
I remember years ago having a dream like that and stabbing myself with a kitchen knife in the dream, to wake myself up. Which worked.

I've had loads of false awakenings though, but usually I can wake myself up once I realise, with a sharp shake of my head. The same as if I want to wake up from a regular lucid dream.

Although I had one dream where me doing that and not waking up, and the crushing feeling that it was real and not a dream, was part of the dream!! :mad:
 
Went to visit my dad in his new house. He now owns a triple garage and he has one freezer, yes, one freezer in there. He’s worth millions and counts it all day, everyday. The cars I would store in there in his position, what a waste. He used to be a car guy too, it’s sad the effect mental health can have on a person. Would be a better investment than most of sat in the bank too.
 
I want to go shopping.... so I check store opening times...
  • Monday 7:00am - 10:00pm
  • 30th August (Bank Holiday Monday) 7:00am - 8:00pm
  • Wednesday 7:00am - 10:00pm


there's no Tuesday..... the website says it closed at 8pm at the top of the page for my local store..... but did it really.... :rolleyes:

good job whichever person decided to make the opening time confusing, if bank holiday was a Monday then why not edit Monday instead of Tuesday? common sense bloody hell.... can't get the staff these days
 
Martynt74 said:
Haha some people are morons, although based on that i hope you went, i'd have assumed it opened till 10pm on a "regular" day.
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yea I went and it was open, but it still likely put loads of other people off going if they had looked at the website.

most people probably just see it says closed for their local store on the top of the page and don't scroll down to check the times for each day
 
I've come across many shocking displays of mathematical inability over the years, but when paying for a meal the other night, this one took the biscuit.

The bill was £87.08 between 3 of us, so I told the girl to take £30 off my card. When she reached for the calculator to work out the balance, I just said its £57.08, she looked blankley at me and carried on plugging in the numbers and the look of shock on her face when it said £57.08 was just tragic. She even commented 'wow, you were quick at working that out, I could never have done that!'

:(
 
Freakbro said:
I've come across many shocking displays of mathematical inability over the years, but when paying for a meal the other night, this one took the biscuit.

The bill was £87.08 between 3 of us, so I told the girl to take £30 off my card. When she reached for the calculator to work out the balance, I just said its £57.08, she looked blankley at me and carried on plugging in the numbers and the look of shock on her face when it said £57.08 was just tragic. She even commented 'wow, you were quick at working that out, I could never have done that!'

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She probably got an a*** in her gcses.
 
Mail man/woman was just here delivering a virgin media advert.

gotta love paper billing turned off but no option to turn off all junk from them.

Makes you realise paperless billing isn;t to save the planet or be green
 
Well I appear to be turning into some kind of grownup. In bed before midnight last night and I've been awake since 9am. I've never done this willingly!

Martynt74 said:
Currently sat on a sunbed with my lower leg in a bandage after falling whilst out on a run.

It’s warming up quick and going to get sweaty soon.
Mondays flight home is going to be awful!
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Worst "I'm on holiday" post ever :P I jest, hope you heal up alright mate :)
 
I run Money Dashboard and see spending habits each month by categorisation, but nothing ever seems "over the top" so really trying to get this nailed as our saving additions have been minimal for a while.

Have so far spent a week since we got back from our holiday trying to stick carefully to a budget of £100 a week. It's alarming how much we waste generally so this is my attempt to really regain control, we've got so used to having enough money to do things that it's never been much of an issue, but savings haven't really been added to for a while. We'd spend a lot one week but then have no consequence of that and do the same the following week, whereas i've set up a spreadsheet on both our phones where any overspend one week gets rolled to the next.

(For clarity, this is £100 a week for "Other" spend. Groceries/petrol etc comes out of a different pot. My wife will regularly buy stuff for the pets/kids without really thinking and it's generally lots of small purchases adding up that get us, rather than the big ticket items).
 
Worried as hell right now. Around tea time my Mother had a phone call from the nursing home where my old man is to say he'd contracted a chest infection and was currently being examined by paramedics, not good for someone as frail as he is that already suffers from COPD and asthma on top of his Parkinson's and dementia. Spoke to the nurse and the paramedics said that A&E at the hospital is rammed and is only accepting critical cases, other cases are currently waiting in ambulances, and that they'd set about treating him at the home. Had a phone call an hour or so back saying that the paramedics had decided that he needed to go to hospital and have bluelighted him up there. Thanks to Covid protocols we can't go up to be with him (only one person per patient apparently), thankfully though my Mother has been allowed to go up as she's going to take over from the nurse/carer from the nursing home who accompanied him in the ambulance.

So yeah, fun night ahead.
 
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