I did that a few times while driving in college. For a year and a half I drove between Senatobia, MS and Little Rock, AR every Sunday–leave at 6:00 am, drive four hours there, leave at 7:00 pm and drive four hours back, about half the way on back roads and a two-lane state highway that ran through the middle of nowhere. Some nights I was so tired I had no conscious memory of long stretches of the trip. One night I got a speeding ticket for not slowing down while passing through a small town. Until the cop told me why he stopped me I didn’t even know I’d passed through a town, and it wasn’t till I followed him back to the police station that I found out which town it was (Marvell, AR).
re: ‘not know where you are or how you got there’ – So you were marching alone were you?
In the Army, I rarely knew where we were as it was all Military Land with few references on the maps unless we were given an Army OS map! In the camp region it was okay as much of the area was public ground, but the exercises were often on Military land with no detail on the civilian OS maps and only markings that suited the exercise on the maps we were given. That house a mile away? Not on the map. That pool? As we were not supposed to be anywhere near it, it was not on the map! That was in basic training on a night map reading exercise (that I led my troop through almost without using the map once) I had followed the instructions – a series of co-ordinates that we had to plot and take to the NCO for approval before we were sent out. As we started out we were hiking through small Xmas trees so visibility was limited. I took a sighting from a rise and navigated by using various trees for directions. A party member was fairly tall and was holding our compass, blindly following the agreed heading without corrections. I had been nicknamed ‘The Prof’ <essor> soon after we were billeted and when we were sectioned off in groups of six for the exercise, it came as no surprise to be made ‘leader’ when the vote was made… I stopped us going the wrong way and said we might try my route and if it got to our coordinate, then they might trust me else I would follow them. In the end, we not only got home first but were the first group to get all 6 questions right to prove we had got to the right places.
I had to finish soon as I was slowly losing the ability to walk etc – the Angiomas in my brain were swelling up after the CS gas test and I was slowly losing touch with my RHS. 3 days later I had no sense of touch, I could not tell my RHS muscles to work etc, even my Right Eye had a fixed focus as the muscles relaxed and I could not tense them to focus.
I still had general use of my brain, not like after my heart attack in 2006! I was sent to Southampton Neurosurgical for treatment and they mis-diagnosed me as having MS. I was treated with Strong doses of ACTH hormone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acth Which helped my body repair the damage. I was given a ‘P8′ medical tag which meant I was permanently unfit for military service. As it turned out, I couldn’t join the Police or the Fire Brigade either! That was before a cat scan showed the Angiomas and the MS diagnosis was quashed. I still had use of my bike and riding it helped me recover my balance and strength.
Speaking of that, I can report that citrus degreaser may remove the skin oils but it won’t deplete skin hydration, so a quick rinse followed by massage oil or body lotion will prevent any lasting damage. Just FYI in case somebody else gets the two mixed up. (and yes, I did it deliberately, for SCIENCE!)
I resemble this today… 4 hours of Chinese language class, 4 hours of studying for Chinese language class, packing to move, moving, and sleep. Sleep? What’s that?
But the tricky question is WHICH Chinese language (I think there are something like 114 different languages in use in China, any of which can claim to be Chinese)
When Joe sleeps, I wonder if his Z’s look like this:
http://www.prendas.co.uk/images/full/20090324_Z_art4.jpg
Asleep while standing up? Good balance Y
I’ve managed that. Used to lean up against stacks of milk cases in the cooler at a dairy during third shift.
Looks like Joe derailed Yehuda’s dream of TDF starting this weekend…
I fell asleep standing up at work, I ended up falling into a biohazard bin. Not one of my finer moments…. :)
I’ve fallen asleep standing in the shower a few times, and usually don’t wake up until I pitch forward into the wall…
When I was in boot camp I marched while asleep many times….kinda scary to wake up and no know where you are or how you got there
I had bike rides like that when I was in college. I remembered leaving Salem, and the next thing I knew I was coming into Turner maybe 10 miles away.
Not drinking, just a late night.
I did that a few times while driving in college. For a year and a half I drove between Senatobia, MS and Little Rock, AR every Sunday–leave at 6:00 am, drive four hours there, leave at 7:00 pm and drive four hours back, about half the way on back roads and a two-lane state highway that ran through the middle of nowhere. Some nights I was so tired I had no conscious memory of long stretches of the trip. One night I got a speeding ticket for not slowing down while passing through a small town. Until the cop told me why he stopped me I didn’t even know I’d passed through a town, and it wasn’t till I followed him back to the police station that I found out which town it was (Marvell, AR).
re: ‘not know where you are or how you got there’ – So you were marching alone were you?
In the Army, I rarely knew where we were as it was all Military Land with few references on the maps unless we were given an Army OS map! In the camp region it was okay as much of the area was public ground, but the exercises were often on Military land with no detail on the civilian OS maps and only markings that suited the exercise on the maps we were given. That house a mile away? Not on the map. That pool? As we were not supposed to be anywhere near it, it was not on the map! That was in basic training on a night map reading exercise (that I led my troop through almost without using the map once) I had followed the instructions – a series of co-ordinates that we had to plot and take to the NCO for approval before we were sent out. As we started out we were hiking through small Xmas trees so visibility was limited. I took a sighting from a rise and navigated by using various trees for directions. A party member was fairly tall and was holding our compass, blindly following the agreed heading without corrections. I had been nicknamed ‘The Prof’ <essor> soon after we were billeted and when we were sectioned off in groups of six for the exercise, it came as no surprise to be made ‘leader’ when the vote was made…
I stopped us going the wrong way and said we might try my route and if it got to our coordinate, then they might trust me else I would follow them. In the end, we not only got home first but were the first group to get all 6 questions right to prove we had got to the right places.
I had to finish soon as I was slowly losing the ability to walk etc – the Angiomas in my brain were swelling up after the CS gas test and I was slowly losing touch with my RHS. 3 days later I had no sense of touch, I could not tell my RHS muscles to work etc, even my Right Eye had a fixed focus as the muscles relaxed and I could not tense them to focus.
I still had general use of my brain, not like after my heart attack in 2006!
I was sent to Southampton Neurosurgical for treatment and they mis-diagnosed me as having MS. I was treated with Strong doses of ACTH hormone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acth Which helped my body repair the damage. I was given a ‘P8′ medical tag which meant I was permanently unfit for military service. As it turned out, I couldn’t join the Police or the Fire Brigade either! That was before a cat scan showed the Angiomas and the MS diagnosis was quashed. I still had use of my bike and riding it helped me recover my balance and strength.
Too much fun with Idle last nite?
Probably was well worth it…
Speaking of that, I can report that citrus degreaser may remove the skin oils but it won’t deplete skin hydration, so a quick rinse followed by massage oil or body lotion will prevent any lasting damage. Just FYI in case somebody else gets the two mixed up. (and yes, I did it deliberately, for SCIENCE!)
I resemble this today… 4 hours of Chinese language class, 4 hours of studying for Chinese language class, packing to move, moving, and sleep. Sleep? What’s that?
But the tricky question is WHICH Chinese language (I think there are something like 114 different languages in use in China, any of which can claim to be Chinese)