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[–]skepnaden 408 points409 points ago

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What time is it?! Am I hungry?! Should I be somewhere?!

[–]Poprocks4 480 points481 points ago

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OH SHITS ITS TOMORROW ISNT IT

[–]Superbird42 102 points103 points ago

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No! Tomorrow is tomorrow. Right now is today!

[–]clarkster 94 points95 points ago

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When will then be now?

[–]spankmonkey 64 points65 points ago

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SOON ENOUGH

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points ago

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How much enough is soon?

[–]theineffablebob 22 points23 points ago

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I will still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday my friend.

[–]Rounddance 17 points18 points ago

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I can't promise tomorrow, but I promise tonight.

[–]trammel11 3 points4 points ago

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Excuse me.

[–]mjbatt 4 points5 points ago

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Cause i just might drink a little more than I should tonight

[–]hal2000 1 point2 points ago

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Today you. Tomorrow me!

[–]Major_Major_Major 1 point2 points ago

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Misquote.

[–]TheVetrinarian 1 point2 points ago

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THAT'S NOT SOON ENOUGH!

[–]Contradicting 6 points7 points ago

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Soon.

[–]motteandbailey 8 points9 points ago

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How soon is now?

[–]xxmattibexx 4 points5 points ago

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I AM HUMAN AND I NEEEEED TO BELONNNNNGGGG

[–]scsnse 6 points7 points ago

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I just discovered Morrissey, even though I'm only 19 and on the wrong side of the pond. I listened to this song atleast a dozen times last week, so upvotes for the both of you.

[–]dafragsta 1 point2 points ago

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Almost everyone goes through the How Soon is Now phase. It's just one of those songs that sounds too cool to be trapped in the 80s. Don't tell me you haven't heard Enjoy the Silence. (I know it's not The Smiths or Morrissey)

[–]toejam119 1 point2 points ago

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It's "I am Human and I need to be loved"

[–]jmost2 6 points7 points ago

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In the jungle you must wait until the dice read five or eight!

[–]trammel11 1 point2 points ago

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No! Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.

[–]PasDeDeux 22 points23 points ago

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In winter: Is it 4PM or 4AM?! If it's 4PM how will I ever be able to sleep again?!?!

[–]always_creating 126 points127 points ago

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I hate when the twilight / sunset through the window fucks with your head...not sure if late today or early tomorrow...

[–]edubation 66 points67 points ago

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Why its 7!

Fuck wait.

[–]always_creating 61 points62 points ago

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I didn't have my alarm clock set for 24hr time and failed to notice the little dot not illuminated next to the AM. Completely flipped my shit, ran into the bathroom, took a super fast shower, dressed like fucking superman and ran down the hall only to find the girlfriend looking very confused and cooking a late dinner.

Felt completely off kilter the rest of the night. :(

[–]omgwolverine 59 points60 points ago

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dressed like fucking superman

was she most confused by the leotard?

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points ago

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The cape is what did it.

[–]bsrg 2 points3 points ago

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Well, if I'm at home and look out of the window, I can tell with no difficulties if the sun is where it usally gets up or where it usally does down.

[–]mjbatt 2 points3 points ago

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Smart ass

[–]MrSharpy 1 point2 points ago

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If I take I sleep in the afternoon, I have ridiculously vivid dreams that I can actually remember. There's something a lot different about out-of-cycle sleep, I think.

[–]Avien 514 points515 points ago

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[–]ludaChris22 60 points61 points ago

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Not only do I wake up clueless to what day it is but for some reason I wake up sweating every time I nap I have no idea why.

[–]bftp 11 points12 points ago

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I've been arguing with my friends that when sleeping, your body starts keeping you cool because the same thing happens to me.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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//starts// Stops. FTFY

You respire more when you sleep. Perhaps the body is running "hot"?

[–]Roaning 10 points11 points ago

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*Perspire

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I think you actually do more of both, but thanks for the fix!

[–]DWFotos 2 points3 points ago

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Nope. Your respiratory rate significantly decreases when you sleep.

Source: Bill Nye.

[–]SailorDan 1 point2 points ago

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The body sweats when it is trying to keep you cool, so bftp was correct in saying "starts"

[–]dnbVice 4 points5 points ago

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When I just take a nap, I dream very vividly, hence the sweat. That's in my experience though

[–]p4ch1nk0 1 point2 points ago

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I always wake up with indigestion and a little heartburn after my naps.

[–]RecklessMind 2 points3 points ago

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Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea...

[–]Allen4083 97 points98 points ago

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I don't remember the last time I actually laughed here, god bless you and may your children be many.

[–]DivinusVox 109 points110 points ago

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How awful! You should never wish children upon someone!

[–]MaximumBob 33 points34 points ago

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I'm surrounded by ABORTIONISTS!

[–]majesticleper 6 points7 points ago

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Just tossing this out there: I will take any extra biologic wastes from abortions, free of charge. It's for a science project I have due for art class.

[–]tipped10 30 points31 points ago

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That is more of a curse. Didn't your mother teach you anything?

[–]xerxes_1011 24 points25 points ago

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Didn't you teach your mother that?

FTFY

[–]anonysera 4 points5 points ago

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This comment made me stop and think why thats a correction. Ya, this is funnier.

[–]Iknowr1te 9 points10 points ago

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depends on where you live. having many children in many countries is most people's retirement plan

[–]ceolceol 10 points11 points ago

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And some people's dinner plan.

[–]gamerholic 2 points3 points ago

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And some people's sexual plan? No? Ok... I said nothing... slowly backing away...

[–]Cluwne 3 points4 points ago

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Kudos

[–]kallapzo 5 points6 points ago

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I have no idea why this made me laugh as much as I did.

[–]jollyollyman 3 points4 points ago

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For labor day my friends had a 'rib off.' Someone spontaneously wrapped their spare ribs in banana leaves. They actually had a banana flavor but were disappointingly tough.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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You're not supposed to eat the peels.

[–]HeWhoWas 5 points6 points ago

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Leaves are not peels.

[–]Thunder_Bastard 183 points184 points ago

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I don't take naps often. I once fell asleep at around 5pm thinking I would just stay asleep until morning if that was how things went.

I was awoken by the phone and it was pitch black outside. I looked over at the clock and it said 6:30. It was a girl I had been seeing and she just started up a normal conversation. I thought to myself this is really weird that she would call at 6:30 in the morning, but let her go on thinking eventually something important would come up to justify the call. About 15 minutes in I said "Thats great and all, but why are you calling me at 6:30"? She apologized and just said she wanted to talk and that she would let me go, she could tell I was sleeping when she called... I told her "Of COURSE I was sleeping and I would call her later".

I called her back about 10 minutes later and apologized after I figured out it was 6:30 at night. I did, however, spend at least a few minutes trying to determine if I had slept for only over an hour or if I had slept for 25 hours and it was really the next day.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points ago

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My brain's ability to do math is almost nil when I first wake up from a late afternoon nap. I'll sit there trying to do basic math in order to figure out how long I slept for. I almost always end up thinking I slept for 14 or 26 hours when I actually slept for 2.

[–]kyriose 27 points28 points ago

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definately do this at least once a month lol

[–]eedna 19 points20 points ago

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you should try working 3rd shift, it literally turns your fucking world upside down. i did it for 2 years, and i never once in that time knew what day of the week it was.

[–]UnqualifiedChemist 31 points32 points ago

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Oh yeah? Is that what it literally does?

[–]eedna 36 points37 points ago

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yeah, it literally does. its like living in australia.

[–]Lots42 1 point2 points ago

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Where hamburgers eat people!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Hey! You're not even a real chemist!

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 1 point2 points ago

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Well, the world always turns and if you work different shifts you're in different directions relative to the center while you're awake, so... maybe?

[–]dane83 1 point2 points ago

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Oh, man, another person calling someone out for using the word "literally" in an incorrect context. That is still hilarious and not at all asinine.

You're so goddamn witty.

[–]babyd0lll 1 point2 points ago

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Definitely*

[–]Slick135 7 points8 points ago

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This reminds me when I was a teenager playing computer games during summer breaks. I distinctly remember one time where I played all through the night until around 5am and finally passed out on my bed extremely exhausted. When I woke up I heard the racket of my parents coming in the house downstairs and I opened my eyes to see the burning sun on the horizon out my window. Goddammit, I slept through the entire day, what a waste. I ran downstairs and said "MOM! Why didn't you wake me up before you went to work like you usually do?! Now I slept through the whole day on accident!" (Yeah, I was one of those kids - sorry, mom). Well, I soon found out that it was really only 7am and that sunset was actually a sunrise (sue me, in my haze I had forgot which direction the sun sets and rises). Suffice it to say that computer games were a tough sell to my parents from that point on.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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During my freshman year of college one night I went to bed at a normal time. When I awoke, I looked at my blinds and the light looked suspiciously like an evening sunset. Confused, I looked at my clock which read like 5 or 6 (didn't see pm or am). Looked over at my roommates bed only to see it vacant. Now I got scared "holy shit I slept almost 20 hours and missed all my classes". I walked into the hallway that had no windows and it was a ghost town. I assumed everyone was at dinner. I then double checked my clock and realized it was 5AM. I was never more confused in my entire life. It's an extremely vulnerable feeling for some reason.

[–]BDaught 1 point2 points ago

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Did she laugh or think you were weird? That's a way you could tell if she was a keeper.

[–]pant444 135 points136 points ago

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This movie made the board game market boom.

[–]pylon567 99 points100 points ago

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But Hasbro had a Monopoly on it since the early 1900s!!

[–]jamesdumont 72 points73 points ago

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Something something Life something!!

[–]arealcoolkid 60 points61 points ago

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I wouldn't Risk the Trouble of pursuing this trivia.

Edit: Pretty sneaky, sis.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

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Sorry, I am going to have to fine you for two puns in one reply.

[–]yapsalot00 12 points13 points ago

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Risk

Trouble

pursuing this trivia

That's three, bud. You've gotta use your cranium more...

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points ago

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Except there is no game "pursuing this trivia", it's Trivial Pursuit. Get a Clue!

[–]KibblesnBitts 1 point2 points ago

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Balderdash!

[–]CHEMO_ALIEN 1 point2 points ago

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Parcheesi

[–]carrotman424 26 points27 points ago

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Mousetrap!

[–]AMArequester 2 points3 points ago

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I read all of this in Gene Shalit's voice.

[–]bookey23 6 points7 points ago

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Give me all your TANGO AND CASH, so I won't have to WILLIAM HURT you.

[–]jakebluu 5 points6 points ago

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sorry you're wrong

[–]cheapshot 120 points121 points ago

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The worst part is the horrible post-nap taste in your mouth.

[–]f4nt 40 points41 points ago

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Seriously, what is that nasty taste?

[–]gfixler 160 points161 points ago

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bacteria poop

[–]sgt_shizzles 12 points13 points ago

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I seriously wish there were a more concise answer, but you pretty much nailed it.

[–]Schnitz 9 points10 points ago

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No, that's the concise answer.

[–]Testicoolstorybro 35 points36 points ago

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It's bacteria. Generally one doesn't brush one's teeth before taking a nap, so there is plenty enough to start a culture in your mouth.

That white film on your lips? That slimy layer on your teeth?

Bacteria, bro.

[–]Nivalwolf 18 points19 points ago

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You HAD to say "slimy layer on your teeth"... THANK YOU MAN! X( Now I can never just be ignorant about what it is..

[–]Garbagio 15 points16 points ago

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Bac-te-ri-a cafe-te-ri-a in ya mauth!

[–]Archer007 7 points8 points ago

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Hide yo molars, hide yo canines.

[–]equ1nt1s 2 points3 points ago

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Oh you mean you don't brush your teeth before you nap? Prole...

[–]arcuivie 5 points6 points ago

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Bacteria, doing it's eating/replicating thing now that your mouth has slowed down saliva production.

[–]gfixler 27 points28 points ago

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This is why I always try to nap while eating.

[–]nerdz0rz 5 points6 points ago

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This is consistently the worst thing to wake up to after a nap.

[–]Hibbitish 5 points6 points ago

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That is bad, but I'd say the worst part is waking up and not knowing where the hell you are for a few seconds because you just returned from a crazy dream. Happens to me in math class all the time.

[–]dodus 1 point2 points ago

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This is why I hate passing out on the train on my way to meetings.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Dude no, that hot clammy, sweating is by far the worst.

[–]nakizo 35 points36 points ago

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hahaha...I just woke from one. I love when the phone rings to wake me from a nap and I grab and wonder "what is this device?!?"

[–]kimberkat81 24 points25 points ago

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its the year of unemployment

[–]g4bravo 145 points146 points ago

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How I feel when I finally get off Reddit. FTFY

[–]Azurphax 2 points3 points ago

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Bravo.

[–]dr_bloom 20 points21 points ago

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oh yes i can relate to that. these 10 seconds of wondering what time it is and whether i'm supposed to go somewhere.

[–]Mantisbog 17 points18 points ago

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I have woken up from afternoon naps with a grip on reality so tenuous I believe that time and space no longer exist.

[–]lessplasticplease 15 points16 points ago

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No matter how long my afternoon naps are, I always feel more refreshed than regular sleep. Why is that?

[–]JetlagMk2 19 points20 points ago

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Because you wake up naturally instead of being alarmed or woken up?

[–]matsky 15 points16 points ago

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I think this is my problem. No matter what time I go to bed (seriously anywhere from 9pm to 2am) my body naturally wants to wake up around 10-11am. I feel great if I can do this, but if I have to get up earlier, even after a solid 12 hour sleep, I'm groggy as all hell for the rest of the day and will need a 1-2 hour sleep somewhere to jump start my battery.

But try explaining this to anyone and you just come off sounding like a bum or a lazy person. I am a night person, which is part of the problem, but I've tried really hard to adjust my body-clock in the past and it just doesn't happen. Scumbag body.

[–]justsomecreep 6 points7 points ago

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[–]ChiperSoft 1 point2 points ago

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my body naturally wants to wake up around 10-11am

Enjoy that while it lasts. As I've gotten older my body has shifted that "natural" wakeup to be gradually earlier and earlier (despite always going to bed at the same time). I am fucking sick of waking up at 7-8am and not being able to fall asleep again...

[–]beninflight 1 point2 points ago

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It's always funny encountering someone on reddit who can be SO similar to you in some ways. And now I learned about DSPS!

[–]mahke 1 point2 points ago

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[–]ConansBeard 40 points41 points ago

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Why do the amount of texts messages received exponentially increase during my naps?

[–]beninflight 8 points9 points ago

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Check your phone when you're bored: ZERO NEW MESSAGES. Wake up from a nap and check: 8 NEW TEXT MESSAGES, 3 MISSED CALLS, 1 VOICEMAIL

[–]isaacarsenal 5 points6 points ago

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Checking messages after a long nap: No New Messages

/foreveralone

[–]TheAtomicPlayboy 49 points50 points ago

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[–]jay4523 37 points38 points ago

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TIL that Robin Williams named his daughter after Zelda...and she's really pretty!

[–]Stregano 24 points25 points ago

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thanks

[–]cigerect 11 points12 points ago

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lol are you her?

[–]still_asleep 4 points5 points ago

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it.....it couldn't be

[–]EvalJow 8 points9 points ago

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Stregano is 28. Zelda is 22. Mystery sloved.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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I don't want to know how you figured that out so fast.

[–]EvalJow 8 points9 points ago

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First I google'd "How old is Zelda Williams?"

Then I google'd "How old is Stregano?"

Mystery sloved.

[–]jurble 5 points6 points ago

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It ain't. Comment history is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too male.

[–]still_asleep 6 points7 points ago

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Detective Jurble on the case. Thanks making quick work of this case! Now we can all rest peacefully knowing this imposter has been brought to justice!

[–]swimmer23 15 points16 points ago

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How I feel after finishing a fucking board game.

[–]faceplain 4 points5 points ago

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I usually think this, and then "FUCK I'm sweaty and I forgot to take out my contacts SHIT life sucks!"

[–]Omegastar19 13 points14 points ago*

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To the OP and the people posting similar stories, here is the simple explanation why you feel like crap after an afternoon nap:

Sleep happens in cycles. Sleep cycles take on average 90 minutes, but it often differs per individual. Each sleep cycle is a process from light sleep to deeper sleep, to deepest sleep (Rapid-eye-moment sleep), before returning to a status of light sleep, at which the sleep cycle starts again.

If you wake up from a nap and find yourself highly disoriented, very drowsy, sluggish, and generally feeling like crap, then it means that you woke up in the middle of the deep sleep part of your sleep cycle. Your body needs to complete a sleep cycle for you to feel good when you wake up. To put it bluntly: do not wake up during your REM-sleep.

So if you want to take a nap, make one of the following choices:

1: Take a short nap, and make sure you have an alarm set so you do not really fall asleep.

2: Take a nap, but include 'interfering factors', such as leaving the curtains wide open, or some irregular sounds (note that music might not work, because it is often repetitive, and repetitive noises will eventually be ignored by your body), which might be annoying but will often prevent you from falling into a deep sleep.

3: Take a longer nap so that you complete 1 sleep cycle, and then wake up. A generally good time would be 2 hours, but as i noted, the length of sleep cycles varies per person, so you might like a shorter or longer period better.

[–]moozilla 1 point2 points ago

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If you wake up from a nap and find yourself highly disoriented, very drowsy, sluggish, and generally feeling like crap, then it means that you woke up in the middle of the deep sleep part of your sleep cycle. Your body needs to complete a sleep cycle for you to feel good when you wake up. To put it bluntly: do not wake up during your REM-sleep.

I thought REM was when you are supposed to wake up? Also, REM != deep sleep. It's the opposite really.

[–]foxingworth 1 point2 points ago

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If you have a smartphone, look into sleep apps. They use the accelerometer to monitor your movements as you sleep and will only wake you when you're in the light stages of sleep. They're often designed for a full night's sleep, but if you plan on napping for a few hours, they work just fine

[–]doobry 18 points19 points ago*

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I'd forgotten Kirstin used to be a kid.

[–]codybrom 4 points5 points ago

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The website in the corner of that image just sounds like the creepiest thing ever.

[–]cleverlyannoying 15 points16 points ago

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[–]sdm187 3 points4 points ago

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you deserved a better fate, Claudia.

[–]GeneralWarts 19 points20 points ago*

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[–]doobry 5 points6 points ago

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done, your turn

[–]GeneralWarts 1 point2 points ago

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Well, we tried our best. Just an example of why it takes 20 comments like ours in order to get one or two that yield 3 digit karma.

[–]Phssthpok 1 point2 points ago

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I know! I can only imagine what her knees look like!

[–]Nivalwolf 1 point2 points ago

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Oh come on that has to be 'shopped

[–]ThatsMisterDickToYou 12 points13 points ago

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What I would give if we could introduce the siesta culture into the UK...

Fuuuuu

[–]DontCareWhatYouThink 2 points3 points ago

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It was brand new.

[–]Zuhalter2000 10 points11 points ago

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[–]SetsOnTheBeach 8 points9 points ago

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Fuckin LOVE this movie

[–]Halogen_ 6 points7 points ago

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I've had a somewhat similar feeling this morning. I had a dream in which I had the ability to accelerate time in small zones, and I kept thinking I had accelerated past the alarm time on my clock. So I got up still half-asleep to check the time on the clock. Seeing I still had time to sleep, I went back to bed and had the same dream. Repeat this process two or three times and I considered myself paranoid.

[–]KeenDreams 2 points3 points ago

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I know what I'm watching after class tonight.

[–]chronodestroyer 9 points10 points ago

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In the classroom you must wait til the clock strikes 10 til 8.

[–]Pravusmentis 2 points3 points ago

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It is thought this is because you slept through one whole sleep cycle and started another, which was then not finished. Try to time yourself so you only get 1 cycle in. It might help you to have your afternoon nap closer to lunch time, as this way your body does not interpret it as if night has happened sooner.

For keywords to search for for more information, try: zeitgeiber, rem sleep, circadian rhythms, perceptive night/day, and free running rhythms

[–]BAEazy 2 points3 points ago

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I just woke up from one and this is what I see. My stomach always feels empty too -_-

[–]post22 2 points3 points ago

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I just woke up to this.. Fucking weird.

[–]HyBReD 2 points3 points ago

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A little bit of rain never hurt anybody.

[–]Arithered 2 points3 points ago

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But a lot can kill you.

[–]HrMorgaes 2 points3 points ago

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For me it's more like FUCK I'M THIRSTY

[–]NiceGuysFinishLast 2 points3 points ago

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When I was in college, we taped trash bags over the windows in our designated sleeping room, so it was pitch black all the time. I adopted a sleep schedule of roughly 35-40 hours awake, and then 10-16 asleep. It was really odd. I would go to sleep in the afternoon and sometimes wake up the next night. To make my confusion worse, I had a shitty projection alarm clock that put the time on the ceiling.. But not AM or PM. I'd often wake up and have no idea what day it was.

[–]Sc2RuinedMyLife 1 point2 points ago

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you were awake for 35-40 hours and was able to be pseudo-productive? or without zonking off from time to time?

i find that incredibly hard to believe.

[–]MaidenLane 2 points3 points ago

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Clock says 6:00

MORNING OR NIGHT ?!?

[–]diogenesbarrel 4 points5 points ago

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Now tell us how you feel after an afternoon fap

[–]Immynimmy 1 point2 points ago

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[–]drewerd 14 points15 points ago

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Yes.
h t t p : / / w w w . g o o g l e . c o m / s e a c h ? q = r i c h a r d % 2 0 s t a l l m a n & u m = 1 & i e = U T F - 8 & t b m =   c h & s o u r c e = o g & s a = N & h l = e n & t a b = w i & b i w = 1 2 8 0 & b i h = 6 6 7

[–]afriendlysortofchap 1 point2 points ago*

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Back during a semester at college, for two consecutive days at the end of the week I only had two night classes (which isn't saying much because during winter night over there began around 1600). I started an experimental biphasic sleep cycle which meant often I would not see the sun for four days in a row. It was among the most comfortable times in my life, and this was the general effect.

[–]fentunfont 1 point2 points ago

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I need to know the name of this movie! It's been driving me nuts for months!

[–]RockasaurusRex 11 points12 points ago*

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Is this from Jumanji?

Spelling edit: aescalante was right

[–]aescalante 6 points7 points ago

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Jumanji

FTFY

[–]watashi-wa-kira 1 point2 points ago

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Jumanji was this funny?

Fuck that shit, I'm not watching Jumanji again. Shit's scary.

[–]AgentGlaze 1 point2 points ago

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It's not often something actually makes me lol, but this thing did!

[–]360walkaway 1 point2 points ago

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It WAS brand new.

[–]blastoman334 1 point2 points ago

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afternoon naps = temporary milk of magnesia

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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You mean "milk of amnesia", or as it's more widely known, propofol?

[–]sticky_stuntman 1 point2 points ago

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Yep. Nap time laxatives are my favorite.

[–]gotogoatmeal 1 point2 points ago

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Yes, absolutely. I wake up starving and disoriented like mad.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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This is particularly bad after a vivid dream in which I already started the next day.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Best movie-to-board-game adaptation since Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which produced the endlessly entertaining Monopoly game. Thanks, Shia!

[–]krasyva 1 point2 points ago

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MY TEETH SHIFTED

[–]RichardManhammer 1 point2 points ago

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I feel like this everyday because I work third shift. I have all my windows blacked out too so it really fucks me up.

[–]zdiggler 1 point2 points ago

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Can't take nap. my 2pm nap become sleep and wake up at 7pm. :(

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I have friends who nap all the time and I don't know how they do it, whenever I wake up from a nap I feel like hell.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I hate when I go to bed at an actual reasonable time like, 8PM or 9PM and then I wake up at the time I normally go to bed, at like 2AM.

[–]ffoj 1 point2 points ago

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In university, after going through weeks of 4-5 hours of sleep per night and taking small naps in the afternoon/evening, I've woken from these naps with the most intense confusion I've ever experienced. Waking up and not knowing what time, day, or year it is, where you are, or what you're supposed to be doing is absolutely terrifying.

[–]brianr88 1 point2 points ago

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[–]fine_young_cannibal 1 point2 points ago

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Thread of the year.

[–]SugarFreeTurkey 0 points1 point ago

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couldn't help but read this in his voice.

[–]Ironcrowned 0 points1 point ago

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I actually laughed.

[–]nuviremus 0 points1 point ago

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I love this more than words can describe.

[–]SuspiciousPamDawber 0 points1 point ago

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..Wait a minute.. How can you be so sure you feel like that after an afternoon nap? During the 1978-1982 run of the hit comedy series "Mork and Mindy", I played the part of "Mindy".... and I can tell you for a FACT that I never questioned what year it was.

[–]wolf83 0 points1 point ago

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I just woke from a deep afternoon slumber and can confirm this is what I felt like as well.

[–]elephantx 0 points1 point ago

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It's funny because its the same way I feel after a nap.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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This post made me realize that they should make a movie about Robin Williams' character in Jumani's time when he was stuck in the board game/in the jungle.

[–]Stregano 0 points1 point ago

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I used to have serious sleep deprivation issues and this happened alot. Basically, because of things I had no control over, Mondays through Fridays I would get at the very most 3 hours of solid sleep a night, and since my sleep schedule was totally fucked up, I only got to sleep during the weekends even though I still had to deal with some stupid shit. Basically, my old job, for 6 weeks, had me working from 8-5 (but I ended up staying until 7 or 8 at night), and then I would work again from 1am-5:15am. This lasted for about 6 weeks, and while it was happening, I had alot of times, normally during the weekends right after I got done working at 5:15am, I would go to bed and wake up at like 4 or 5pm or something since my body was exhausted, and waking up that late threw me off so much.

When I finally got off of that shift, and also walked away from that company, the first open night I had I slept for probably around 20 hours or more. I was not planning on sleeping that long, but it just kinda happened. That was freaky. When I woke up, it felt like I had just fallen asleep like 10 minutes ago, and the time is 4 hours back (from when I went to sleep) since I did not realize I was out for around 20 hours

[–]jabb0 0 points1 point ago

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It is a strange sensation. I get why people think about an afterlife.

[–]OdeToKillingMachine 0 points1 point ago

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Funny story... One time I was really tired after studying for an exam all night, and fell asleep mid-reading my textbook. I woke up at 6:00, a little after I was supposed to get to school for the exam. This was before I had gotten my license, so I couldn't drive to school, and my parents were both mysteriously missing. I was trying every-way possible to contact them, but they wouldn't respond. I started to panic, thinking I was going to miss the exam resulting in a zero. My parents didn't arrive back home until 7:30, when the exam was almost over. I shouted at them, telling them the test was over and I was going to fail the exam. Of course they weren't even phased, they just laughed at me. My exam was at 6:00pm, and I had woken up at 6:00am. ಠ_ಠ

[–]phrz 0 points1 point ago

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I feel this way too – sometimes I fuck up my sleep cycle so much that one random weekday I just pass out in the afternoon and wake up at 7:00p then my whole schedule's worse.

[–]jerisho 0 points1 point ago

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WHAT BEAR IS THIS!

[–]knocklessmonster 0 points1 point ago

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If you wake up delirious and feeling like you've been in a jungle for twenty years, it might be time to buy a fan and drink some water.

[–]sproton 0 points1 point ago

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Fell asleep at 5 for a 2 hour power nap, wake up at 1 AM.

[–]Airman 0 points1 point ago

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I can't stand it when I fall asleep in the middle of the day. I always end up feeling groggy the rest of the day.

[–]tsimpson1066 0 points1 point ago

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now I have to watch this movie again...

[–]JimenezCLJ 0 points1 point ago

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Been there, done that

[–]Clayburn 0 points1 point ago

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Thank you! I've been trying to remember where this quote was from. I use it all the time, as well as other Jumanji quotes. But I didn't make the connection with this one. It was too generic. I assumed it was Back to the Future or something.

[–]unglad 0 points1 point ago

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I feel a sudden urge to watch Jumanji.

[–]noizyMonkey 0 points1 point ago

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this movie was on tv the last night, man i can watch it for a 1000 times and still cancel my night out when i catch it on tv