Bah all that stuff happened thursday, I am still sort of missing a day.
I definitely have “bad math days.” They’re kind of like bad hair days, but instead of having a bad hairdo, I have a hard time doing math. The longer I work at it, the worse it gets, until can’t even plug simple expressions into my calculator and get a result I believe.
I try to recognize this state and leave things until the next day, if I can.
It used to happen to me all the time in college, then I quit smoking that stuff and it got better.
Now it’s starting up again and I don’t smoke anything these days.
Can I blame it on flashbacks?
Every now and then I’ll have a day where I can’t speak properly. My tongue ties itself into fancy boy-scout knots and I trip over all my words. My speech ends up slurred, like after a night of hard drinking, even though I’m totally sober and awake.
On days like that I also end up biting my tongue a lot. That’ll teach the lazy bastard.
I have other days where I can’t understand a damn thing anyone is saying. All the words might be clear, but it comes through like a foreign language to my brain. They’ll be speaking loud enough, clearly enough, and there won’t be any background noise in the way, but I’ll have to make them repeat themselves ten times before I get it. Actually, half the time I don’t get it, so I give up and just smile. Usually a smile is a safe response, but sometimes it gets me into trouble.
I can’t find anything that might be a cause of this, though. It’s not always fatigue, although I’m sure it explains at least half of my “stupid days”. When I’m tired, I function almost like I’m drunk. But for the other half of the days, I really have no explanation. I’ve thought about it a lot, too. I eat a fairly balanced diet and take a multivitamin to make up for anything I miss. I’ve never done any drugs besides Tyenol and antibiotcs, and I don’t drink much or often. So I have no clue what it’s all about.
At least it only happens a few days a month, or I think I’d go crazy.
How do you rate a down pillow? All I get is a gunny sack filled with straw. 
I don’t have “stupid days” I have entire weeks, even months. Usually it’s the last 4 weeks of the semester, and I just hit a wall. I have enough brain power and energy to continue to function in class and all that, but I’m pretty much worthless everywhere else. At work, I can’t understand what people are saying to me. Sure I understand the words, but not when they’re put together like that. I have to take people’s information at work, and usually people have to repeat their phone numbers like a dozen times before I get it. When I come home, I can’t write anything. When I try, horrible things happen. Passive voice, repetiton of words, cliche ideas, sentences that looks like this He went to open the door the door opened when he pulled the handle. Mostly I just have the energy to veg in front of the tv for an hour before I fall asleep for 10 hours.
By the time school ends, I can barely function. After resting for about a week, I’m back to top form.
cleans snot off computer screen
I wake up stupid after migraines. I can’t concentrate at school, when people talk to me I can’t understand, and when I am online I repeat words and phrases words and phrases words and phrases words and phrases over again.
Wow, that’s even worse than Pirate time. What’s pirate time, you ask? Beats me! But I do know I got up in the middle of the night two weeks ago, checked the alarm and discerned that it was set to 6:45 pirate time: one of the two settings on my formerly one setting alarm clock. It was ok, though, because the morning hours of pirtate time are the same as regular time. I was quite baffled by that reasoning when I remembered it later in the morning…
Ever wake up stupid?
No, he always wakes up before me …
And in other news. All last week I was convinced every day (when I woke up) that it was Friday, until it actually was Friday, and then I had no idea what my name was much less anything else.
Yes, almost every day for the last 33 years.
I wake up stupid 4 days out of 7 every week. At least. On Friday morning, I woke up and decided to tackle the enormous pile of dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. Naturally, I decided to do this task before my brain shifted out of 1st gear which resulted in an episode of major stupidity.
Soon after I turned on the water, I noticed that water was trickling down into the other half of the sink where I rinse the dishes. I stood there and watched that trickle of water for a full minute or more, while my brain slowly processed the information and tried to find a reason. “Wow, how did that happen? There must be a hole in the side of the sink! It’s stainless steel, how is that possible? Do we have a knife that sharp? I don’t SEE a hole anywhere. Maybe it’s a microscopic hole. Should I call a repairman? Maybe there’s a patch for that…” And so on and so forth, until I realized that the water was merely filling up a pan that was directly under the faucet and the water was running out of the pan and around the back of the faucet and into the other side of the sink.
:rolleyes:
All I can say is thank god for this thread- I’ve really been worried that I was developing some sort of neurological problem over the past year.
I get this every once in a while, and I can’t figure out what causes it. I’ve always been a super-heavy sleeper, and even after 8 or 9 hours I feel drunk for the first 30 minutes or so after I wake up. I stumble, slur my words, knock stuff over, have major brain farts like the aforementioned sink and clock episodes, etc.
Every once in a while, it’ll persist for the whole day. I’ll be at work starting at the just-typed word “and” and convinced that I spelled it wrong.