In the afterlife...

Post by **Hound** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:07 am

...do you suppose you get to sleep? I don't mean like needing to sleep, but like could you fall asleep if you chose to?

Food for thought...

Plasmodium · Post by **Plasmodium** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:08 am

The afterlife is sleep.

Bombshell · Post by **Bombshell** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:08 am

Hm...

I'm gonna have to think about this...

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:10 am

Oh f*ck!

Dinobot · Post by **Dinobot** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 7:16 am

I have no idea. I doubt it though.

Sixswitch · Post by **Sixswitch** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:05 am

If it exists at all, and you go to your version of a 'good' afterlife, then yes, I think you will be able to sleep.

StoneCold Skywarp · Post by **StoneCold Skywarp** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:00 am

Hey, if you can sleep in a lake of fire, then fairplay to ya

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:56 pm

We're sleeping now...

...uh, I mean, probably.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:13 pm

I'm not, I'm exploring the portryal of masculinity and femininity in Classical Hollywood films... anyone who waints to post a 1st-winning essay they've done on the subject in this forum is more than welcome to...

On-topic: What Ss says - though if I did get through and could do what I wanted, personally sleep wouldn't be a very highly prioritised task, as I find it to be an inconvenice at the moment... I'm interested in exploring whether the human body actually needs sleep, or whether it's an environmental process programmed into us waaaaay back in the day.

More food for thought - we [or at least, I] could already be in the afterlife, and it's simply a chance to continue our lives at an early stage and relive them, though obviously with no memory of what's to come. Na, that's just Dreamwave G1.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:35 pm

Mmm... ditto... I'm sure much of it is as psychological as physiological... so, to what extent those processes are replaceable is a fertile area for conjecture and study...

Dima · Post by **Dima** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:43 pm

worst.thread.ever

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:46 pm

Yeh, I remember doing it in college as part of Psychology... things like fatigue could just be programmed into us on a very deep level as echoes of days when the night was dangerous [cavemen, for example, would be safer in their, erm, caves at night rather than being active in a hostile landscape, and with little to nothing in terms of entertainment, simply shutting off is as good a use of the time as possible]... however, it could also be vital to physical and psychological maintenance... In my current rather disjointed sleep cycle I find it interesting that after around 20 hours without sleep I tend to feel awful, but if I make it through another hanful of hours without sleeping, I tend to feel a lot better, which could hint at overcoming some sort of psychological barrier - something along the lines of really needing a cigarette, then getting distracted by something like a computer game or sex and the craving passing away until it's next presented - e.g. finishing the computer game and noticing an ashtray.

Starscreamer · Post by **Starscreamer** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:50 pm

if im dead i will have plenty of time for sleep cause hey what else is their for me to do im dead and stuff

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:54 pm

That's not sleep, it's death... there's a vital difference in being alive in one state and not the other... unless you're a character in a Hollywood family movie... "Is mommy sleeping now?" "No you insensitive child, mummy is dead nd I'm actually rather upset about it, so stop claiming she's just asleep!". See, I'd have loved ID4 if they'd done that...

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:12 pm

Originally posted by Dima
worst.thread.ever

You'll learn.

The Green Knight · Post by **The Green Knight** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:21 pm

Originally posted by Dima
worst.thread.ever

*cranks up You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman Turner Overdrive on the stereo.

Scarrita · Post by **Scarrita** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:25 pm

Originally posted by Dima
worst.thread.ever

You must not have seen any of my threads yet. Matter of fact... It has been a while since I've posted one. Maybe I'll go look for something completely useless now.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:59 am

They better have anime there else I'll be seriously pissed off.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:01 am

Dude, didn't you hear? The afterlife's cartoons are all made by Filmation...

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:06 am

Originally posted by Quicksilver
Dude, didn't you hear? The afterlife's cartoons are all made by Filmation...

No..