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Submitted by Brandon Fabish <brandino_the_great.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-04-19 23:52:11 EDT
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It takes 140 decibels to cause immediate acoustic trauma, which instantaneously causes hearing loss. A gunshot can range all the way up to 160 decibels. The average conversation from a couple of feet away, that is at around 60. Leaves rustling in the wind are at 20.
Nearly any decibel amount that reaches the threshold of hearing can wake you, whether it be an owl hooting in the middle of the night, or maybe it's someone whispering something in your ear, telling you to wake up soon or it won't be their voice that wakes you up, it will be a .357 magnum placed on your fucking temple. It's your choice.
If you're undisturbed during the first few stages of sleep, that's when REM occurs. A common misconception with REM is that you get up and sleep walk, or even sleep eat. This actually occurs during the second stage of sleep, the one right before REM. It happens because you've just fallen asleep, and your mind is being pummeled with thoughts and visual images.
During REM you're actually paralyzed. Your body does this to as a safe guard in order to protect everyone else from you. Some people wake up in the middle of a dream, in the middle of REM, and they can't move. If this occurs, then it takes anywhere from four to fifteen minutes before you can move again, that is, if you even want to move anymore.
Dreams actually last less than five minutes, but the REM stage lasts for up to ten minutes. You can dream about anything, but usually your mind starts visualizing events that keep occurring throughout your brain as you sleep. What your brain is actually doing is just defragging itself; it's just making sure everything is in order, if it ever was in the first place.
Dreams don't have to make sense. The majority of the time they don't, but often times people try to find a way to prove that they do. There are books written about interpreting dreams. People claim that they dreamt something and it came true the next day, or the week afterwards.
One thing is true about dreams though. You can't escape them. They haunt, and plague you. They're relentless in there ability to create whatever your mind is capable of, and forcing you to watch it. Sometimes you're just a bystander, watching, but other times you're in them, paranoid, delusional, hoping to wake up.
You're blood pressure is falling. That's what happens when you're dreaming. You become paralyzed and your blood pressure drops, along with your heart rate. Is this sounding familiar yet? Does any of this seem like déjà vu?
People have died because of dreams. Others have gone insane, and sometimes people even get killed. Of course this all happens in the final stages of sleep, the one right after REM. Did you know it was you? Is it really that surprising that you did it?
There was a case a while back, where a man was just out of REM sleep, and he sleep drove four miles down a highway to his in-laws house. He went into their bedroom and strangled his mother-in-law to death, and attempted to suffocate his father-in-law too, but unlucky for him, you fell back asleep. The cops investigated the case, but of course there is no law against sleep murdering. It was involuntary manslaughter followed by another involuntarily attempt.
You figured if he could get away with it, why not you, right? Relax, you're breathing has lowered now, and your blood pressure is still dropping, along with your heart rate. Either the stage before or after REM, a person can be easily awoken by saying their name repeatedly or with a loud noise. It can be a constant 60 decibels, or that 160 decibel blast.
You're not hearing me anymore, are you? You're past all the stages of sleep now. Your blood pressure and heart rate should have stabilized by now. Maybe I should have just said your name over and over. Do you think the gunshot would have woke you up? After all, I shot you in the head.
That had to be at least 175 decibels, wouldn't you think? I mean, if you could. You deserved though; just consider it payback.
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This post will be revised, rewritten, and expanded upon in the following week or two. I may or may not repost the final version. This was simply an excerpt from a larger concept.
Submitted by K.M (user info) at 2004-05-23 01:47:41 EDT (#)
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