Who’s settling who?
posted bystavNot sure whether dobbie or Wilson is getting the settling benefit here.
Sleep - “The Captain” doing his part to end the war on terror.
posted bystavI’ve heard that sleep deprivation has been used at Guantanamo Bay as a form of interrogation and torture on their inmates. In fact, there is a wikipedia entry on the subject.
Although the US authorities are relatively tight lipped on the subject, if the technique is being used, then I have a theory.
I reckon the US guards sweep the village in the area and engage the help of mothers with newborn children. They take the babies to the holding cells and tell each prisoner that they must care for each baby as if it were there own. As the baby reaches an age that they can settle easily, they then rotate the babies with new ones and continue the process. This is not unlike what is going on here at the moment.
Poor TK is surving on about 4 - 6 hours sleep a day. This sleep is taken in 1 to 2 hour spurts. I’m not far behind and lucky to claim that in the last 3 days I’ve racked up 20 hours of intermittent sleep.
We even resorted to ringing the midwives last night to see if, as new parents, there was something we were doing wrong.
When you’re this tired your judgement and reflexes are definitely impaired. Performing relatively simple tasks like hanging out the washing suddenly take on a new level of complexity. We are finding that we get half way through some chores to realise 10 minutes later that we are now doing something completely different to what we set out to do. Developing and sticking to routine is hard because you cant remember what time you decided you would a: feed baby, b: change baby, c: bath baby, d: what was I saying?
For years I’ve wondered why people have those little yellow signs on their car windows that proclaim, “Baby On Board”. I mostly thought that it was some sort of way to complete the ultimate accessorization and blatantly advertise that they are now “Family”. I now know, after driving around a bit today, it’s a warning sign. It’s a warning that the driver of the car is sleep deprives, will be thinking irrationally, is totally unaware of what’s going on around him/her, and is driving with the impairment, judgement, skills,and disregard for the safety of others as a person driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.
Sleep deprivation brings on a light headiness and ………….sorry…. what was that?
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