Sleep & Dreams.

Okay. First off, I updated the last two posts so the videos are now embedded. If you didn't watch them I encourage you to do so. Especially the one from two days ago about how to spot a liar. It's really good.

So I'm still quite tired. I didn't get too much sleep last night. I woke up really early, but I felt super refreshed. By the time I had to go to work, though, I was tired already. I had another early day at work, and was supposed to get off at one. Today I only stayed for an extra hour and a half. Not so bad. It's looking like I'll end up with some overtime for this week so I'm totally cool with that. I'm really enjoying work which makes it easy when I have to stay later than I'm scheduled.

Last night, in the few hours of sleep that I did get, I had a crazy dream, but it was really vivid and when I woke up I remembered every detail. It's a long story, but I got attacked by a gang of guys on motorcycles when I was driving and they caused me to crash. Then they all just drove away except for one, who, after emptying out my wallet, pulled me out of my car. Before he did he said I had the option of staying there and dying or going with him and living. So I chose living (my car was on fire...). So he took me and we drove off to get his car (maybe his, maybe stolen). Then he turned out to be the nicest kidnapper ever. We went and walked around the mall. I was scared for my life but he was being nice. Then we slept in the car over night, and the next day he asked if I wanted to go get food so I said sure. He asked me where I wanted to go and I said Panera. I was hoping that while at Panera I could get someone to call the cops since I work there and know everyone. We went to Panera, and while the kidnapper got in line I hung back a little and ran into my general manager, who started to get angry with me for not showing up to work that morning. Then I told him to call the cops because I'd been kidnapped. He thought I was joking at first, but then I told him that I was serious and he said he would go call them. So I got into line with the kidnapper and we ordered, and he was still super nice, but I was still rather scared. While we were eating the cops showed up and arrested him, and he seemed kind of upset that I would do that to him. It was weird too because I kind of felt bad for having him arrested since he was so nice to me. So then I was just super upset because it finally hit me what had happened to me. The cops had a lot of questions for me which upset me even more. My manager stayed with me the whole time and was super supportive. When the cops wanted me to come to the police station and answer some more questions as well as get the stuff the kidnapper took from me, my manager drove me there. Weird dream.

Sorry for the long story but I really felt the need to share that. So anyway, for today's talk I was looking for something about dreams but couldn't find anything. So I did find a talk by Jessa Gamble about our natural sleep cycle (which clearly mine is all sorts of messed up). It's short,  but interesting. Hope you enjoy it.

Day 27. (Almost done)




Okay. Good night.

Sleep, statistics, and baseball.

30-Day Challenge #1: TED Talks
Day 14

So yet another day of tired me. I wanted to go to sleep earlier last night, but the World Series game kept me up. I'm of course rooting for the Cardinals (although I'm not sure why that was an 'of course' statement but I'll go with it) so I was very nervous towards the end. I continued to believe in the Cards and they made me super happy with their comebacks. They were completely determined to push the series to Game 7, and they certainly did that. It was some stressful, but incredible extra innings and I'm really excited to watch the game tonight. I'm hoping for a St. Louis win, but whoever wins it will certainly be a well-deserved title.

Anyway. On to today's TED talk, which is ironically about TED talks. Sebastian Wernicke talks about the statistics of TED talks and what constitutes the ultimate best and worst TED talks. It's interesting to see the things that people like (and don't like) to hear about in talks. It's also quite funny as well. I rather enjoyed it.Hope you do as well.




You liked it, right? Okay good. I may need a quick nap before Game 7, so I'm going to go do that. Happy Friday! Happy Halloweekend! Let's go Cards!!

Sleepless nights, unsuccessful days

30 Day Challenge #1: TED Talks
Day 13

So I'm quite exhausted today. I didn't get much sleep last night, and when I actually was asleep it wasn't a very good sleep. So needless to say I'm a bit tired today. Which from my experiences from the last 4 years as an undergrad is something I should be used to. As an undergrad sleep was a luxury I came across every few days. I was well known for my lack of sleep. At times it worked for me, and other times not so much. Ironically, now that I'm in grad school I actually get much more sleep so I've kind of gotten accustomed to it. So nights of little sleep kind of throw me off a bit. Now that I get more sleep most of the time these days I find that I feel more motivated, and obviously more energetic (although I'm usually not lacking energy no matter how much sleep I get). It's that motivation that's important. I get more done, and I usually get better work done.

So in honor of how exhausted (and not motivated) I am today, here's a talk about sleep. Arianna Huffington talks about how sleep makes us succeed. Seemed fitting for the day. So watch and enjoy while I go fuel up on caffeine before my 4pm meeting.



Now go enjoy the rest of your day, and get plenty of sleep tonight!!