Miscellaneous questions

[andrewducker]

[Poll #720595]

And yes, some of you may have been awake longer than 64 hours, but it seemed long enough to take in the vast majority of you. If you want to boast about the time you stayed awake for 94 hours and then nearly bled to death through your nose because of all the cocaine then comments is where to do it...

Comments

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

78 hours back in high school on caffeine and sheer bloody-minded stubbornness (it was Hell Week for the student musical, the student newspaper I was editor-in-chief of was about to go to press, and I had three papers due). I slept for like 36 hours after that.

[moniqueleigh]

As for the hours awake bit, not bragging, but aside from brief catnaps followed by looong whinges of "whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can't I sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep????????" I once had insomnia for over a week. Pain. Grumpiness. Thank the gods a friend took pity on me and gave me sleeping pills.

For the email/IM convo's, it depends on how well I know the person at the other end. If I know his/her voice very well, I usually read the convo in that voice. If I know the voice but not overly well, it's some weird mix of mine & his/hers. If I don't know the person at all, it's generally my own or none.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

I did a 49 hour 'Trek-athon' for charity once :P but of course I'd already been awake a good 12 hours before it started, and after it ended I had to get home.

It was tough, especially when they put on 'Spocks Brain' at 3am.

[wychwood]

If something is worded very characteristically, I might hear it in that person's voice, but usually "no voice". When I'm really tired, though, I sometimes get weird effects; a couple of months back I spent a whole evening hearing everything I read or thought in the voice of someone I'd been working with. Very strange *g*.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

100+ or so, but that's what you get for having manic-depressives on your flist.

[momlady.livejournal.com]

As for reading emails/chats, I've never thought of that question before. So, I'll say "other" for now, but it probably should be "my own voice"...

That's a very thought-provoking question!

:)

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Defo in excess of three days before on several occasions. I highly reccomend it if, when you turn your light off at night, you prefer your bedroom to be filled with terrifying halluncinatory monsters.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

78 hours in a stretch because I was in a car accident that had me about 1 metre from going off a 100 foot cliff, and afterwards I just couldn't close my eyes. I went into some weird hyperactive zone for the next 72 hours+, then crashed when I got back to my own bed.

email and IM really depends. Some people I hear their voice, some I don't, some I sometimes do, depending on phraseology used in the email/im. Very variable. I can make myself read your emails and ljs in your voice, but normally it doesn't happen, except when it does. This one wasn't in your voice, for me.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

In general, at my normal reading speed, I don't hear anything in a particular voice. If I do, it usually means I've starting paying attention to the reading matter with the part of my brain that I sometimes have to distract with music so I can get on with the reading at my preferred pace, i.e. I've dropped out of the reading "flow".

(wonder if there's anyone who has never been awake for 24-or-more hours ?)

[garunya.livejournal.com]

It depends somewhat on both how well I know the person and their writing style. In general, if I know someone fairly well I'll hear their own voice. Conversely, if I know someone too well in person, but am not too familiar with their writing style (especially if they don't write/email very often anyway), it becomes a lot harder to imagine it in their own voice.

For people I don't know at all, it varies between something close to my own voice and a completely imaginary voice based on how I think of this person. It's never "no voice" with me, though.

[darkoshi]

What about people who've never stayed awake for a whole 24 hrs? Surely there are some of them too. Myself, I'm not even sure. One time while trying to restore files I had accidentally deleted off someone else's computer, I stayed up all night. And several times during trans-Atlantic travel I was awake for a long long time, but I never calculated and committed to memory how many hours it was.

For IMs, I generally hear it in a voice between my own and how I envision or remember the other person's accent to be. I don't generally remember other people's voices well enough to read things entirely how they'd speak it. And perhaps it isn't even "my" voice, but "my reading voice"... they aren't necessarily the same.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

71.5 hours. I was hallucinating mildly by then. I can't usually do even 24 though - I always flaked out on the onld 24hour roleplay sessions. caffeine has no effect...