• Me-Myself&I said on Aug 13, 2009....

  i have two foes myself.... food and sleep. i don't get much of neither one. but i can function on no food for ...at least a day or two as long as i have my coffee and cigs. ;~)

  i don't sleep well at all! i wake up every 2 hrs. and it's been like that for almost 5yrs. now. i only eat once a day, at nighttime, which is a no good time to eat too.

  i dream even if i have those few hours of sleep too. i like my dreams, not the nightmare cause they seem to haunt me even in the daytime hours so.....

  my choice is sleeping without dreaming. and eating without feeling full.

  hope you are doing fine and dandy my friend! *smile* have a good day!

• secretlife said on Aug 13, 2009....

  If you had to give up one for a day, which one would you choose to be without? 

  sleep

   

  If you had to give up one for two days, which one would you choose to be without?  sleep but i'll be cranky as hell by this day without food...

   

  A choice between sleeping and never dreaming, sleeping and never feeling rested, sleeping and waking up every ten minutes, and sleeping and always dreaming horrible nightmares.  sleeping and never dreaming.  i rarely ever dream now, so this is normal for me.  i have or remember about 3 dreams per year.

   

  A choice between eating and never feeling full, eating and never tasting, eating and having your guts turn upside down every time, eating and feeling nauseous immediately every time. 

   

  eating and never feeling full-  the other two options are too terrible to consider.

   

  feel better soon grape.  these are terrible enemies you have chasing you.

   

   

• UnicornForm said on Aug 13, 2009....

  sleeping and hving nightmares which is wwats has been happening normally..sorta...
   
  than eating and feeling nausieous because than I wont be on the edge of obese!!

• uniquely-ironic said on Aug 13, 2009....

  sleeping and always dreaming horrible nightmares
   
  eating and never tasting

• fearing said on Aug 13, 2009....

  Okay Grapey, I'm game.  I'll throw in my thoughts....
   
  I'd give up sleep for one day but would choose food if I had to do it for two days.  I'm not a big eater and I don't need much sleep day to day but to go without it for that many hours would really mess with me cognitively. 
   
  The question about dreaming - ugh.  How to choose between those?  I wouldn't choose the "never dream" option.  I like to dream (most of the time) and remember all of them vividly.  I wouldn't choose "never feeling rested" cause I get a little cranky after a while.  I already have some pretty ugly nightmares - used to that..... so I guess I'd go with waking up every 10 minutes but it would suck.  ;-)
   
  And the last question, I'd choose to eat and never feel full.
   
  Are you doing some governmental psych test on us? 

• simplyconfused said on Aug 13, 2009....

  If you had to give up one for a day, which one would you choose to be without? 
  Food
  
  
  If you had to give up one for two days, which one would you choose to be without?
  Sleep
  
  
  A choice between sleeping and never dreaming, sleeping and never feeling rested, sleeping and waking up every ten minutes, and sleeping and always dreaming horrible nightmares. 
  I'm going to choose... sleeping and always dreaming horrible nightmares.  I like dreaming.  I rarely have nightmares, but it's a dream so long as I sleep the whole night, feel rested, and dream I'm good.
  
  
  A choice between eating and never feeling full, eating and never tasting, eating and having your guts turn upside down every time, eating and feeling nauseous immediately every time. 
  Eating and never tasting definitely.  I want to feel full, I don't want my guts to turn upside down, and I hate feeling nauseous.  

• Hegemone said on Aug 13, 2009....

  Well, I'd give up the sleep.  I'm more used to not getting much sleep anyway, and having this constant hunger that I must always fight and find ways around.  So yeah, I'd give up the sleep either way.

• Alyss said on Aug 13, 2009....

  I already have the battle with sleep so I guess it'd be that one in favour of being able to eat.
  
  
  I hope that you are able to enjoy sleep and food again soon.
  

• travelr712 said on Aug 13, 2009....

  i generally feel nautious before and after eating, but i also feel anxiety if i don't eat, so whatayagonnado?

• wombat said on Aug 13, 2009....

  What's the question again?   I haven't had enough sleep.....

  But I'd choose to do without food--both for one day and two.

  I'd choose to sleep without dreaming.

  And I'd choose to eat without getting full....just because that's the best one you gave to choose from.  And more fun.

• Lucytorial said on Aug 13, 2009....

  Hey are my enemies talking to your enemies or what?
   
  Right now I'd do without my back pain, I'd do with some sleep and I could certainly do with eating and feeling fine afterwards..... give one up? come on why one? I'd like to kick both of them out the window.
   
  A dream for me would require getting to REM sleep, NOT gonna happen.  So I'll go without food easy any day.

• winterjewel said on Aug 13, 2009....

  very cool questions. I have to say.

  I would give up sleep for one day, i do it all the time, no big deal. with tons of kids and a full time job, sleep is a non priority.

  Two days though, that would definetely mess with my head and since the reason i stopped doing anything mind altering (many years ago!) was because it takes at least two eyes, an active brain and four hands to keep track of small children, i would have to choose no food.

  As for the other choices...no dreams is fine with me. I have suffered from horribly vivid nightmares since i was a small child. Night terrors, whatever one wants to call them. I know their source if not their reason and i can handle them now that i am older, but i would be happy to be without them entirely.

  As for the other, i have been preg 10 times, had ulcers and have had anxiety issues in the past so i am no stranger to naseua, but that doesn't mean i like it. But i LOVE food. I love to cook, i love to eat. Food is my enemy in that it haunts me like my nightmares and i have yet to find the off switch. But i love it. Not tasting food would be such a kill joy. But would i still love food if i was always naseaus....um..yes. So i guess always being sick after would be my choice there.

  May i ask your choices GrapeK??

• JadeLondon said on Aug 13, 2009....

  Whether it be one day or two, I'd rather do without food. I spend most of my day fasting anyway, so it wouldn't be much of a transition.

  I'm a lucid dreamer, so I would choose to sleep, but with nightmares every night. I've spent most of motherhood sleeping then waking every ten minutes. :)

  I suppose I'd rather eat without tasting, although I imagine I wouldn't eat as much. If I went with the first option, I'd weigh a gazillion pounds.

• raindove said on Aug 13, 2009....

  hi grapekoolaid - sleeping and always dreaming horrible nightmares is something that happens to me often so would gladly give that up and the next one would be eating and never tasting.
  

• queenparanoia said on Aug 13, 2009....

  i could give up sleep but not food...

  i could give up anything about sleep but not anything about food...

  food without taste is like love without sex.... :-)

  so there.. :-)

   

• take_a_stand said on Aug 14, 2009....

  as for the nightmares and trouble sleeping. find an outlet, it helps. i found that i can draw, and putting terrors to paper with pen and pencil really helped me.
  
  
  as for the food and feeling sick or barfing it all out almost immediatley, find a good doctor. 
  lol

• GrapeKoolaid said on Aug 14, 2009....

  Hello ladies and gentlemen.  It is now 4:39 AM CST and I'm afraid insomnia has made me her prisoner once again... 
   
  Since I'm up, I might as well leave the lot of you a message.  I couldn't think of a better way to spend my waking moment right now. 
   
  MM&I:  Hello there lady.  I sincerely hope things are going well for you as well.  I don't see you around here much anymore.  Eating at night is not good, I know.  I do that too, sometimes.  I've heard that late night snacking contributes to a person having nightmares.  So I would believe, if I dreamt.  I very rarely do. 
   
  secret:  When you do remember your dreams, do you remember them because they're so striking, or intense?  Or is it just a random dream that you remember?  Supposedly, everyone dreams in their sleep, but like you, I seldom remember them.  The ones I do remember are pretty intense, though and they stay with me for months, years even.  I used to dream a lot more when I was younger, but most of those dreams I would forget within ten minutes of waking up. 
   
  Thanks for your kind words, secret.  All I've ever wanted was to be comfortable in my own skin.  Seems that's a creature most elusive. 
   
  UniForm:  Do you have recurring nightmares?  Is it always the same?  Or is it always different?  Plus, I thought your BMI was on the normal side.  What's this about obesity?
   
  Uni:  Same follow-up question for you.  A choice between the same nightmare every night, or a different nightmare every night?  Also, eating and never tasting?  Really?  You could challenge people into a habanero eating competition.  :')  <---That's me tearing up just thinking about it. 
   
  ladyfearing:  By now you should know that I am very distrustful of government.  I'd never work for them.  :P
   
  Waking every 10 minutes?  Didn't get enough of that when ScooterBug was a wee one?  :D
   
  Lovely to see you, btw. 
   
  simplyC:  Hmm...  Interesting what you said about "as long as you're well rested".  I guess there's something to that.  Waking up suddenly from a nightmare can be unsettling though, you know?  It happened to me a few weeks ago, which prompted these lines of questions (plus my health condition, blah blah blah).  But I woke up almost in tears (I was crying in my dream) and after I got over my initial disorientation, I'd never been happier to be awake. 
   
  Hege:  Can't miss what you've never had, amirite?  :)
   
  Alyss:  It seems like insomnia is a common ailment for the folks on SC.  Is it that SC attracts insomniacs or that SC turns people into insomniacs maybe?  Though nothing here keeps me up at night.  I just can't shut off my brain.  That's my problem. 
   
  Thanks Alyss.  I just want to go through a meal without wishing death once in a while.  I wish I had a switch that I could flip to shut off my brain, too.  Woulfn't that be nice?  :)
   
  trav:  Now is it certain foods that upset you?  Or is it random?  You can't just not eat.  That's not even an option.  So pull up a seat.  Let me get you a bib, just in case.  :)
   
  Lucy:  You starvin yourself too?  What on earth for?  And yes, your enemies and mine are distant cousins, it appears.  Though your pain is in the back and mine is in the front. 
   
  winterjewel:  Hello!  Welcome to my blog!  Pregnant ten times, huh?  That would equate to tons of kids, I guess.  :)
   
  Of course you may ask.  I'd love to answer as well.  :)
   
  I can do one day without sleep, but I can't do two.  By the second day, my eyelids flutter and my extremities tremble.  I can do two days without food.  As a matter of fact, I'll fast for three days at a time to clean out my system when I'm having intestinal issues, which lately has been rather frequent. 
   
  As for my choices, I seldom dream nowadays, so if I were to never dream again, I don't think it'd be a big loss.  And if I ate and never felt full, that'd be okay with me too (though I guess I would have a pretty difficult time with portion control), as long as there wasn't any pain or discomfort after I ate. 
   
  Jade:  A lucid dreamer, huh?  That sounds cool...  I don't think I ever had a lucid dream in my life. 
   
  Not taste the food you eat?  I don't know...  I'd be pretty distraught if I couldn't taste chocolate anymore.  :'(
   
  raindove:  Hi!  Welcome to my blog.  I believe it's the first time I've seen you here.  If it's not, please forgive my forgetfulness.  It is 5:15 AM now after all.  :)
   
  Another one that would prefer to eat and not taste, huh?  Interesting... 
   
  People are so different.  :)
   
  qp:  Given your love for food and cooking and stuff, your answer doesn't surprise me in the least.  Though I must warn you, lack of sleep will make you more cranky than you can be...  :)
   
  take a stand:  Hey.  Welcome to my blog.  I wasn't really looking for advice on the matter, but thanks for your suggestions.  I do write when I can't sleep at night, but I'm afraid that does little to quiet the brain, you know?  If anything, I'll continue to write until I see the sun come up.  (Wouldn't you know it?  The sky is getting lighter as I type).  I do have a pretty good doctor for my stomach troubles, but I am currently uninsured, so I can't really afford to get the tests that I need done.  As of right now, we're at a holding pattern with my treatment, which I am responding better to.  Once the tests are done, we may start looking at other treatment options. 
   
  Thanks for your participation everyone!  :)
   
  I think it's time for me to go to bed now.  Even though I'm not sleepy, I think I'm going to force myself to sleep. 
   
  G'night~~~

• secretlife said on Aug 14, 2009....

  hopefully you're sleeping soundly right now-
  the dreams i remember are usually intense or unusual in some way.
  everyone tells me that i dream and just don't remember.  i have no clue, cause i seriously don't startle or wake or have any memory of them.
   
  i don't think i ever dreamed or at least remembered them often.  but yes, i remember the ones i do have like stories for a long long time.  actually there are 2 dreams i had in childhood that i still remember!

• simplyconfused said on Aug 14, 2009....

  I find if you wake up from a nightmare and your scared your not tired.  In a way, for me at least it's the best of both worlds.  I like to dream, horrifying or nice, and it's wonderful to feel awake.

• fearing said on Aug 14, 2009....

  lol Grapey!  I do know you well enough to know how you feel about the government but I had to ask.  You know, make sure you hadn't jumped ship or something.  ;-)  
   
  Scooter is 9 and has never slept through the night.  I mean never.  He can tell you the exact time(s) he wakes each night.  So if you ever wonder why he is and will remain the baby of the family, there you have it.  Jk.

• UnicornForm said on Aug 14, 2009....

  different nnightmare everynight! than i could write lovely childrens books for the rest of my liffe.

• wombat said on Aug 14, 2009....

  Hey!  You forgot me up there.  Just messing with you.  Quite all right.  I know about the sleep deprivation, and I'm really easy to forget.  Ha.

• raindove said on Aug 14, 2009....

  grape you are right, thanks for the welcome. you are one of the few people i started reading here even before i posted anything.

• MommyUninhibited said on Aug 19, 2009....

  As a mom to 4 energetic kids under 4...I'd take sleep over food anyday. Maybe I'd loose a few lbs in the process :D
  
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Aug 21, 2009....

  secret:  Well, it's 3am and I'm awake again...  My newest post (which I'll type up as soon as I'm done with this comment) will shed some light on my long nights, I'd wager. 
   
  simplyC:  You're right about that, I suppose.  Though I'm not a big fan of waking up angry or scared...  It takes me too long to get re-acquainted with the wakeful world. 
   
  fearing:  Not jumped ship yet.  But precariously perched on the edge, teetering on some days.  :)
   
  UniForm:  Well, at least you'd never run out of ideas.  I've got a million stories to tell, personally.  They're all in my head for now, but I'll eventually get them out one way or another... 
   
  wombie:  doh!  I'm so sorry...  I didn't mean to skip you...  You know how these late nights get...  And no you're not easy to forget.  Neither is endora. 
   
  More fun to eat without feeling full?  I suppose you could win every single competitive eating challenges.  :D
   
  rdove:  Read me before posting anything?  That's very kind of you to say.  Thank you.  [blushes]  :)
   
  Hope you stick around.  I look forward to many pleasant conversations with you to come.  Sorry it took me so long in getting back to you.  I don't have a reliable internet connection at the house right now. 
   
  MaUninhibited:  4 under 4?  Where do you get the energy to do anything else?  I'm impressed you're here reading and commenting at all.  :)
   
  Welcome to my blog and hope you like it here! 

• MrOriginal said on Aug 31, 2009....

  Maybe more like adversaries than enemies?

• UnicornForm said on Aug 31, 2009....

  itsalways different grape...and thx bt my thighs say different

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