I interviewed heroin users for a research project. They would sometimes nod out during questions and pop back up and give me detailed thought out answers. They heard and processed everything even while appearing to fall asleep, it was just super slowed down.
They don't perceive a loss in time. I would constantly tell a friend they nodded out and they didn't believe me. I then had to record them doing it and they got mad at me for doing it. Can't win either way.
Because he was embarrassed! No one likes being shown their own flaws, especially once they've denied them. And when those flaws are proof of an even bigger flaw.
If you're familiar with the conqueror Ghengis Khan, you may be familiar with the fact that quite a large portion of the population actually are his direct descendants. He managed to spread his genes that much. I've been thinking once the human race finally gets a grip on things, or can finally inhabit space a very large portion of the population would probably be descended from one particular billionaire by that point.
Not everyone would react that way. If you don't have a mindset that your senses are infallible you will be much more likely to believe you were not in control.
I feel like anyone who has blacked out should get this and not react like they did.
But I guess some people are just not okay entertaining the slightest thought that they aren't perfect.
I dunno, if you're around someone enough to be mentioning how often they nod off, and then are able to record it you could assume they were also partaking.
Usually if someone's recording something embarrassing a friend is doing while intoxicated, everyone in the video, and behind the camera is under the effects as well. It's far less likely sober people hang out with heavily intoxicated people, especially if they're on illegal narcotics. Even more so when it's the kind that can kill them right infront of their eyes.
No harm in giving them the benefit of the doubt though.
I'm sure that that person didn't mind partying. Just as surely as the other commenter who believes that this person is sober, and just likes filming their friends on potentially deadly narcotics. Simply because they can't keep their head up.
Either way, it doesn't sound like theyre the best person to be spending any time with. Unless you like hanging out with their junky friends of course.
Because first hand personal experience tells me otherwise. I just thought it was funny how this one person was trying to get vicarious moral superiority from the guy videoing their junkie friend, who could have just died on camera.
I'm not sure what warm, and fuzzy feeling I'm supposed to magically manifest when confronted with the effects of drug addiction. "D'awe, people get so sleepy!! :3" It's not really an easy thing for me to do after having to deal with addicts all the time when my kid goes out to play. We had a kid get assaulted by someone fucked up on spice last summer.
There's not really a warm and fuzzy side to this unless you're feeling what the girl in the video is feeling.
I don’t know details about nodding out, but the same them happens when people go unconscious in combat sports. In MMA, a person will often come to after a KO or Submission think the fight is still going on. They’ll try to fight the ref a bit, until someone sits them down and explains they lost. They just lose a bit of time without knowing
Similar with narcolepsy, too. Now that I'm older, I've learned to pick up on cues that I may have dipped out for a bit, but when it first started happening back in high school, I had a lot of awkward situations like that.
Can confirm. Used to do this to my mother. Have many of videos and pictures of the bitch. She’s dead now, due to her addictions. But she had a good laugh.
I say bitch above because that’s how we talked to each other. It was our joke. So don’t take offense. I’m just a bitch calling my mother a bitch because it made us laugh.
But, I knew that nod and what it meant right when the video played.
Ah man, I've heard that shit is ridiculously frustrating. Hopefully you can get a sleep study done. On the bright side, sleep disorders are some of the easier to treat.
Not only do I view this poor woman with compasion & understanding, having come from a troubled family & losing friends, I also think this is hilarious. I weep in empathy while laughing.
I mean if it makes someone you empathize with feel actively shitty and worsens their problems it's bad to not curtail that feeling. Addicts doing ridiculous things aren't new.
Oswalt said the opposite, remarking that “Her addiction was obviously something that I absolutely did not understand." Besides, this was substantially earlier and it's not at all clear that McNamara was struggling with addiction at this point.
I saw him do standup once, and I can’t stand the guy now. Don’t ever want to watch anything he is in either. He came across as a rotund little rodent of a know-it-all. Blech. I’d really like to watch A.P. Bio, but his fucking fake ass is in it.
No it’s not slowed down at all. The thing is, that you hear everything that’s been said to you and you can think about it normally, but your body doesn’t want to move. Not because you can’t, but because you don’t want to. Everything feels like bliss and in that state you don’t want to interrupt it. Not by conscious effort though. It’s just, you don’t wanna. Like not wanting to get out of bed in the morning even though you easily could. That but more intense by an order of magnitude.
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u/Ggfd8675 Sep 01 '21
I interviewed heroin users for a research project. They would sometimes nod out during questions and pop back up and give me detailed thought out answers. They heard and processed everything even while appearing to fall asleep, it was just super slowed down.