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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Is there such thing as 'heat drunk'? Been sleeping horribly since the heat wave, when I woke up this morning I still felt dopey...made it through most of the day, it finally cooled down to 78° today...as soon as I got home, I passed out on the couch, slept for 5 hours. Of course now I can't sleep.
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    i think its called heat exhaustion. You are hydrating and not overexerting yourself right? If its a lot of direct sunlight you need to wear a hat and stay in the shade - when i'm in the sun for a few hours I need a nap too.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    RKCNDY said:

    Is there such thing as 'heat drunk'? Been sleeping horribly since the heat wave, when I woke up this morning I still felt dopey...made it through most of the day, it finally cooled down to 78° today...as soon as I got home, I passed out on the couch, slept for 5 hours. Of course now I can't sleep.

    Ugh, I hear ya. This heatwave is knocking me out. My brain is running at slow-mo and I feel a little nauseous all the time. :relieved:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    ldent42 said:

    i think its called heat exhaustion. You are hydrating and not overexerting yourself right? If its a lot of direct sunlight you need to wear a hat and stay in the shade - when i'm in the sun for a few hours I need a nap too.

    Getting enough water, staying inside or in the shade mist of the time. It's just we PNW'ers are sissies when it comes to heat, above 80℉ and we turn into a bunch of whiners.
    PJ_Soul said:


    Ugh, I hear ya. This heatwave is knocking me out. My brain is running at slow-mo and I feel a little nauseous all the time. :relieved:

    Is your office air conditioned? Lucky you if it is! But I'm glad you totally understand...some transplants (people not from here), just love it...I'm like melting in a puddle.

    The only good thing about the heat, I totally lose my appetite...eat less, lose weight, score!
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    No, my office is not air conditioned. :frowning: It does (supposedly) have some kind of air circulation system that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and never ever works during a heat wave because it's just not effective enough to do any good. So it is FUCKING BROILING in my office right now, despite the two fans I've got going and the open windows.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    Been having a little trouble with sleeping due to the heat, but I dunno if that's really insomnia...I just wake up a bunch of times...I have to uncover because I'm too hot, then I get too cool with the fa blowing right on me, and I have to cover up, and I wake up each time you know...it's ridiculous...and the heat has been causing me to have more headaches I think....
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  • Gillycw
    Gillycw Sydney Posts: 524
    I think I have found something that actually works.
    I've been taking magnesium tablets every day and am sleeping much better. You can just get from the health food shop or pharmacy. As long as it's magnesium phosphate or a magnesium complex. It's really working though, please try some and see!
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    ^^^^ I've heard about this but haven't tried it; more to the point, I forgot to try it. I may look it up. I have to say that I started taking Vitamin D a few months back and seem to be sleeping much better, but this is confounded by the fact that I also started doing a lot more exercise.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    RKCNDY said:

    Is there such thing as 'heat drunk'? Been sleeping horribly since the heat wave, when I woke up this morning I still felt dopey...made it through most of the day, it finally cooled down to 78° today...as soon as I got home, I passed out on the couch, slept for 5 hours. Of course now I can't sleep.

    you'd sleep better if you quit making fun of me.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    imalive said:

    RKCNDY said:

    Is there such thing as 'heat drunk'? Been sleeping horribly since the heat wave, when I woke up this morning I still felt dopey...made it through most of the day, it finally cooled down to 78° today...as soon as I got home, I passed out on the couch, slept for 5 hours. Of course now I can't sleep.

    you'd sleep better if you quit making fun of me.
    Nah, we sleep the well-deserved sleep of the just after making fun of you....
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    oftenreading said:

    imalive said:

    RKCNDY said:

    Is there such thing as 'heat drunk'? Been sleeping horribly since the heat wave, when I woke up this morning I still felt dopey...made it through most of the day, it finally cooled down to 78° today...as soon as I got home, I passed out on the couch, slept for 5 hours. Of course now I can't sleep.

    you'd sleep better if you quit making fun of me.
    Nah, we sleep the well-deserved sleep of the just after making fun of you....
    I can't sleep cuz I'm plotting my revenge :angry:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Sleep is for pussies,
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    northerndragon said:

    Sleep is for pussies,

    That's what I've been saying.
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    edited July 2015
    Well I got 4 minutes of forum domination and I cracked 5000 posts, that should be good enough.
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I'm next...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    Oh god.... I have to be up in 3.5 hours, and i have a VERY busy day at work ahead of me, dealing woth a ton of people and trying to keel chaos at bay. It's going to be awful. :frowning:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I took a nap...now I can't sleep. I couldn't sleep on Friday night, so needed up with 5 hours, then took a nap, out of synch...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    cant remember if this has been posted or not
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    I've heard of a medicin called Circadin has anyone tried it?
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Annafalk said:

    I've heard of a medicin called Circadin has anyone tried it?

    that medication is for blind people. Since they cannot see light, their bodies don't know when 'sleep' time is. That's what that med is for.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless

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