How do you stay awake

[Forealfc]

Okay... I attend the police academy on weekends, and sometimes going over the ammendments over and over gets kinda boring.. I tend to dose off a little even with my eyes open...

Are there any practicle solutions of how to stay awake?

I know everyone has done this at least once or twice in a meeting.

[Tinaa]

Use the "buddy" system. Have a buddy sit with you and give you a nudge when you nod off. You do the same for him. I am a doodler. Always have a pen and piece of paper you can write on.

[Tiny]

Avoid sitting near the Heat or a person that fell sleep, u should buy a coffee with you or search for a best spot to sit (e.g a place that is COLD) ^^ u know its spring + the weather is cold, and the heat usually on during class time, so Breath + Heat = Sleep gas .....

[Faulkner]

Forealfc, the police have huge caches of confiscated drugs, just ask your Sarge for some speed!!! I'm sure he could spare some before it hits the streets again!!! :P

[damienpaul]

I often take some other work in and do that at the back of the meeting (ours are in the lecture theatre at school.

[Weaselbunny]

If you can getting away with not giving your full attention, I tend to do mental exercises, quietly tap tunes on my leg or daydream... or I look around the room and try to find people more bored then I am... it's quite fun watching someone trying not to drop off! I get bored really easily, such a short attention sp...

The legal alternative to Faulkner's suggestion would be two cans of red bull and half a packet of pro-plus. Problem is, you'll stay awake but you'll have trouble shutting up! :lol:

[Forealfc]

Thanks everyone, but I liked the last reply the most. Maybe looking at other people dose off. Dont get me wrong, classes are interesting but sometimes after reading the Texas Penal Code Book, you have not choice to dose off . We cant have any drinks or food in class.

I just have a hard time getting my eyes to stay open. I feel like I dont have any energy sometimes... ...

You are a funny guy Faulkner.... hee hee....... :lol:

[DippyHippy]

I work nights but that's a bit different cos we can get up and have a quick walk around... and because I only work nights, I'm used to it now so I'll only be sleepy if I haven't slept well. In fact, I'm the only one at work who hasn't fallen asleep on the job.

The only advice I can give is don't drink too much coffee (it'll give you headaches and will generally weird you out), keep your head up if you can (cos if you're looking down, you're likely to fall asleep!) and try not to do any one thing for too long.

Weaselbunny, Red Bull does *very* strange things to me... I can't drink it on it's own, but Vodka Red Bulls... hmmmmmmm... yummy :D

[Weaselbunny]

Very yummy, but after a few too many I have a tendency to do things I don't believe I've done in the morning; especialy if you throw in a bit of Southern Comfort!

I work among lots of lively people in a busy atmosphere so I don't have sleepy issues, unless I've been on the Vodka Red Bull the night before or played PS2 till my eyeballs have crusted over!

[damienpaul]

I work in a school, class time, camps or boarding house duties are no problem for keeping awake. Its the frequent meetings when everyone has to espouse every single detail that they could have done face to face with other people...or when they give us the next favourite educational theory of the month or telling in absolute detail the hows, and why's of them changing a fullstop to a comma in a curriculum document - I kinda struggle then - so i correct work and plan lessons.

[MikeJ]

Red bull and vodka on top of a few tequilas..... I lost 12 hours, and don't believe what I'm told I did .... but I was awake (until I decided to go sleep in the middle of the road...) OK, bad advice, go for coffee, wierd's better than spaced if you're trying to learn ;)

[Chook]

Get a "digger".

My wife sits next to me in church and when I invariably drop-off during the sermon she gives me a sharp-short dig in the ribs.

It works for two minutes to the next dig.

Get home with sore ribs - but nicely refreshed. :D

[DippyHippy]

LOL Chook - the Simpsons suddenly spring to mind LOL

Weaselbunny, I once got through a whole half-sized bottle of Southern Comfort on the following premise... (I'd had a couple of beers already, mind)

I started off with a nice mixture of Southern Comfort and lemonade... about 3/4 lemonade, 1/4 Southern Comfort.

Bearing in mind I'd had a few Stellas already (three, I think), I got halfway down the glass and then decided to top it up. I reasoned that since I was already halfway down the glass, I only needed to top it up with Southern Comfort since there was already plenty of lemonade in there.

Well, this went on until the Southern Comfort was empty, at which point I was considerably the worse for wear and telling filthy jokes that no one laughed at because 1) no one could understand a word I was saying and 2) even if they could, I was repeatedly leaving off the punchline.

This was during my first (and last) camping trip... All I remember was waking in the middle of the night and stumbling to the nearest tree to be ill and then passing out under the tree next to it. I was woken by the passing of a rather posh couple, out walking their dog, bright and early the next morning. If you can imagine the disgust of having some dog poo on your shoe that you just can't get rid of, that's the sort of look they gave me.

I haven't touched Southern Comfort since.

[damienpaul]

I have had a similar experience Dips with Jim Beam Bourbon....:P am now a teetotaller

[Weaselbunny]

I ride a motorbike and enjoy going to bike rallies (if you've not come across one of these they're basically anything from one hundred to a few thousand bikers in a field, beer tents, live music, stalls, much like a music festival but you have to turn up on a bike). :ph34r:

Summer before last I was at Farmyard (a large rally) and I drank half a bottle of southern comfort and a number of smirnoff ices. Now, if you bear in mind that I'm female and a bit of a girly, I shouldn't really drink that much! :rolleyes:

In my inebriated state, I'm not sure how it happened, I fell off a six foot drop and then a thirteen stone biker landed on top of me. Somewhat bruised and a little squashed I staggered, unphased, to my feet. I decided to have a paddle in the river before returning to the area I had dropped off and moving along the bank to somewhere that I could get a decent handhold to climb up. I choose an area close to a chainlink fence. It was slippy and wet and i put this down to the rain, It did not occur to me that... drunken men + chain link fence = urinal! :(

I slipped and dislocated my thumb in the fence, i went to the first aid tent. They wanted to take me hospital, so I popped it back in and said they could just strap it, they were all excited with having something to do and insisted on hospital, so I spent the whole night in casualty, covered in mud and p!5s. What did the hospital do?... Strap it! :o

I still drink southern comfort... you'd think I'd learn.
(this was one of the cleaner stories I have to tell of Southern Comfort I'm ashamed to say) :unsure:

[Faulkner]

Nooooooooo, Weaselbunny, you have to tell us MORE!!!! heh...give us the full DIRT!!! :P

[Weaselbunny]

Well I can't give the full story because I don't want Fraser to ban me and his Dad might be reading!

But take an ex boyfriend (current at the time), add about £50 worth of Southern Comfort in a pretty cheap Northern UK Nightclub (ie. a lot of Southern Comfort!), throw in a couple of Aftershocks, a taxi queue, an idecent act, and another young man in the queue commenting 'You lucky B&%$£!D'.

Then have your ex boyfriend's work collegues happen by at that precise moment.

Finally have a pleasant, if somewhat loud mouthed, young lady remark in the queue for another nightclub a few days later 'Oh now I recognise you... you're the girl that.....'

I felt the blush start around my ankles and creep all the way to the top of my brow! :o

[Chook]

:D :D :D
Weaselbunny - :lol: How do YOU stay awake in church? ;)

[damienpaul]

I think if I were in that queue Weaselbunny, I would be well and truly awake, and thats not from lesson planning....except for biology perhaps...:lol:

[Tiny]

Originally posted by Chook@Feb 11 2004, 07:35 PM
:D :D :D
:lol: How do YOU stay awake in church? ;)
Good question :lol: I want to know too, cuz I am tire of being knocking my head while fell asleep in chruch...especially at night.

[DippyHippy]

Oh Weaselbunny, you're a bad bad girl!!! :o Shame on you!! :P

(Sounds like a typical night out in Luton to me though :lol:)

[Weaselbunny]

I don't generally go to church, except for special occasions. I would suggest picturing your vicar naked (if you won't go to hell for doing so)!

The fear of nightmares will probably then keep you well and truly wired! ;)

[damienpaul]

this also works when you work with a lot of middled aged people.....:lol:

[Weaselbunny]

Where I work it's predominantly young people so for me at work that would probably be a bad idea, none of us would get any work done!

[Faulkner]

Weaselbunny, I'm still trying to interpret what you were you saying earlier...I don't s'pose you could post up some pictures...?

[Weaselbunny]

Now that would definately get me banned you cheeky monkey! :P

[Faulkner]

Sorry Weaselbunny. Cheeky monkey I am!!! :rolleyes: It's just that when we're on the subject of girls running amok in public, I seem to...have this...SHAKING GOIN' ON!!! I C-C-C-CAN'T C-C-C-CONTROL M-M-M-M-MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!

[Chook]

Faulkner LOL,
There are some cheap fares available to the UK ... :D

(Or Weaselbunny could visit ME at Coffs Harbour ... don't tell Faulkner! :P )

[Weaselbunny]

Calm down boys! ;)

Mind you, I could do with a holiday.

[Josh]

Guys ... while i'm rivetted by the antics. Perhaps we should tone it down just a little. *looks at Faulkner*I don't even want to know what you're doing.

[damienpaul]

i humbly apologise and will tone down...as i am sure the others will too

[Weaselbunny]

Sorry Josh, looks like he's had too much red bull trying to stay awake.

Just wondering, one of my colleagues told me he's an insomniac and only gets about two hours sleep a night.

I can't imagine having to cope with that sort of thing long term. So the question becomes what do you do when you can't get to sleep.

I generally read because it makes my eyes tired and eventually my brain gets the message (I have however fallen asleep with my face in a book, that's why I don't read newspapers when I'm sleepy anymore, newsprint!)

[Chook]

I very rarely have trouble sleeping - I go for a jog up hills, and back starting 6am. Have a brisk walk after lunch. About 6pm we have another jog for about and hour and come back for a shower and evening meal. Watch the news, and I can feel the eyelids dropping. No trouble at all to get to sleep. Physical exhaustion and a refreshing ale works wonders. ;)

PS Sorry Weaselbunny - I haven't ridden a motorcycle for a long time. (I used to have a Triumph Thunderbird 650cc twin with rigid rear suspension. Lovely old girl.)

[Matthew]

It takes me about an hour to fasll asleep after going to bed. I think, and I can't stop thinking. Makes me tired in the morning though. :(

[Chook]

Quote Matthew:
"after going to bed. I think, and I can't stop thinking."

Do you wake up with solution in hand? :P

[Faulkner]

Ha ha ha! Chook you're a funny bloke... :lol:

[Chook]

Whatcha mean? ;) :D

[BlackTearsofapril]

If I ever nodd off... it would be a first.... i'm an insomniac. It sucks... 3 hours of sleep OR LESS every night... and I guess coffee doesn't make that any easier. Well... just drink coffee, and Imagine yourself getting REALLY into the stuff theyre talking about... and basicly act like a kid.

Thats what I do in class. It works. Kinda. can you tell i'm not terribly old?

[Weaselbunny]

Not until you told us! ;)

I wish I liked coffee, so many swear by it. Maybe if I liked coffee, mornings wouldn't be such a problem.

[DippyHippy]

LOL Weasel... it can take me *hours* to wake up properly sometimes LOL Working nights doesn't help LOL