[UA] Sleep deprivation (OT)

[rex monday]

Mathew Norwood wrote this:
>Thus, many of us have no doubt had "Tetris dreams" when trying
>to sleep shortly after playing the game.
and
Mark Fender wrote this:
>The effects of this lack of sleep were subtle. Jokes became funnier, a
>_lot_ funnier.

YES to both of these. Once, out of intense boredom, I played Tetris for 
something like four or five hours straight. For the entire rest of the day 
and part of the next (including dreams that night), I had constant Tetris 
hallucinations. Every idea I had would be accompanied by the image of an 
L-shaped brick slipping into place. Hmmm...there's potential there for some 
Infomancy imagery to describe...perhaps part of the adept's mind scrambling 
spells or maybe his own version of scrying. Play until you are sick of the 
game, but each little block represents part of the problem at hand, slipping 
into a pattern. When you finally reach the top of the box, the overall 
pattern of bricks and the score will somehow pertain to the solution. 
Huh--not so OT after all.

Also, as for the fact that "sleep dep=everything is funny', I can attest to 
this personally. During the regular school year, I often go for longer than 
I should without sleep. It's always right around 3am that everything my 
friends say is _really_ funny. It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs and 
stuff. I've already got drugs in my head. I just have to wait a few hours 
for them to kick in.

-rex monday

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