25 Jan 2010, 1:54 am
25 Jan 2010, 4:30 pm
One hour is the minimum for me I think, the max being nearly 3 hours, when I really can't turn my thoughts off. Sometimes I wish I were a cyborg with a On/Off button 
. People who can go to sleep fast amaze me.
25 Jan 2010, 7:29 pm
25 Jan 2010, 7:34 pm
Callista wrote:
That sounds like a cross between biofeedback and a conditioned response. Very interesting.
1.) Just after it made the jump from pigs, it had a higher fatality rate reported. Fatality rate has gone down to normal since then, if it was ever that high to begin with.
2.) Instead of targeting the elderly, it's been killing younger people. So, to put it in perspective, your (healthy) grandmother is at higher risk of dying from the regular flu; do you stay up nights worrying about her? Probably not. So don't worry about yourself.
3.) Nobody's immune to it like they are to regular flu. That means that swine flu can often infect everybody in a school or a workplace at the same time and basically shut it down. That means lots of money lost for the employer.
Bottom line? Swine flu caused a lot of people a lot of stress before we knew what it was and how it worked. Nowadays, it's an annoyance at the same level as the normal seasonal flu. Not that we wouldn't be happy to see the seasonal flu gone, naturally.
Sure, flu shots are a good idea, and so are sensible precautions (wash your hands and stay away from sick people, duh); but if you're going to worry about swine flu, only do it once you're done with heart disease, diabetes, car accidents, and strokes. Worldwide, of course, you might choose to worry about malaria, measles, cholera, or malnutrition instead.
superboyian wrote:
It would of taken me less than 30 minutes when i'm really exhausted..
But since I got the cold, it's been already taken me more than 3 hours to fall asleep and I get really scared of death after hearing about the swine flu thing, the foot and mouth, bird flu that I'm literally too scared to sleep... Occassionally, I would actually stay up all night but it's obviously a not very wise choice to make.
But on a regular day, no matter what mood I'm in, it would normally take me less than half an hour to sleep, posibly 1 minute at the minimum.
Swine flu is not any more severe than normal flu. The only reasons people are worried are:But since I got the cold, it's been already taken me more than 3 hours to fall asleep and I get really scared of death after hearing about the swine flu thing, the foot and mouth, bird flu that I'm literally too scared to sleep... Occassionally, I would actually stay up all night but it's obviously a not very wise choice to make.
But on a regular day, no matter what mood I'm in, it would normally take me less than half an hour to sleep, posibly 1 minute at the minimum.
1.) Just after it made the jump from pigs, it had a higher fatality rate reported. Fatality rate has gone down to normal since then, if it was ever that high to begin with.
2.) Instead of targeting the elderly, it's been killing younger people. So, to put it in perspective, your (healthy) grandmother is at higher risk of dying from the regular flu; do you stay up nights worrying about her? Probably not. So don't worry about yourself.
3.) Nobody's immune to it like they are to regular flu. That means that swine flu can often infect everybody in a school or a workplace at the same time and basically shut it down. That means lots of money lost for the employer.
Bottom line? Swine flu caused a lot of people a lot of stress before we knew what it was and how it worked. Nowadays, it's an annoyance at the same level as the normal seasonal flu. Not that we wouldn't be happy to see the seasonal flu gone, naturally.
Sure, flu shots are a good idea, and so are sensible precautions (wash your hands and stay away from sick people, duh); but if you're going to worry about swine flu, only do it once you're done with heart disease, diabetes, car accidents, and strokes. Worldwide, of course, you might choose to worry about malaria, measles, cholera, or malnutrition instead.
Thanks
that has actually stopped me from worrying alot and that was very useful information.... I guess it would give me a shorter hours to sleep now 
but yet i do hope my cold is gone... Its making me feel uncomfortable.
25 Jan 2010, 7:44 pm
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25 Jan 2010, 8:13 pm
To sleep, perchance to sleep topic
The ZZZs take upwards of an hour, no more. Must be hard for others that take considerably longer. 
25 Jan 2010, 10:15 pm
25 Jan 2010, 11:48 pm
Definitely not quick to sleep. Some days I'm just not sleepy and stay up all night.
I've discovered that alcohol puts me out pretty fast tho. 
