(Hmm… I think I’ll go to bed early. Last time I let a small headache stay until the time I normally sleep (because I wanted to watch Into the Woods with my parents), it had gotten a lot worse to the point they stopped the movie and sent me to bed because I looked so bad. I hope this doesn’t get to be a normal thing… though I suppose it’d fix my sleep schedule it it makes me go to bed and then get up earlier.)
(Okay, that is fucking it. My phone didn’t used to be so bad about this, would just cut off for a short time and I could be back on in ten minutes, tops. Now it cuts me off not too long after work starts (10 pm) and doesn’t give the slightest indication of coming back until after lunch break (3 am). I have had it with this shitty thing. The main thing I use it for at work is to check Tumblr. Nothing else. And that is the one website it suddenly gets ‘can’t establish a secure connection’ bullshit with. Just. The. Single. One. I. Want. And it pisses me off every single time it starts doing it, every single goddamn time that stupid message pops up with an error screen. I can’t do anything when it’s like that and it sucks. I use my phone at work in the beginning of the night because that’s when people are actually still awake. I don’t need this bullshit going on. I already lose enough because I’m asleep when everyone else is awake and vice versa, screw you phone. And now I just want to cry and take a hammer to this shitty thing in frustration. I came home during one of my fifteen minute breaks just so I didn’t have to hold this in until lunch break…
So from here on, if I ever stop replying at work, it’s because of this piece of shit. Just to say.
Fuck you, you BSing, waste-of-time-and-patience failure of technology.)
[Edit: And when I go into this kind of language and pull out that icon, you know my patience has been worn to zero by this happening. Twice, it’s decided to cut off the connection when I try sending a post (including tonight), and that’s very, very hard for me to do well on mobile, with ho long it takes and not being used to needing to code things I want in. Hence why I just completely lost it enough to post this tonight. And I had to, else I would have been drowning in irritation the rest of the night and just not good.]
(Huh… feels a bit weird seeing a musing post come back around… Very easily the one post that has the most notes for something made on a whim…)
Here’s what you’ll need to know!
Learn all about the wonders of the human body and add scientifically-accurate drama to your stories.MALNOURISHMENT
- DEATH: average – 21 days (3 weeks), max ever recorded – 70 days (2.3 months)
- 6 HOURS: grouchiness and hunger due to lack of glucose.
- 24 HOURS – 48 HOURS: hunger very apparent; pains in stomach; body has entered ketosis and is using fatty acids as energy.
- 72 HOURS+: muscles begin to get broken down for energy.
- You will become: increasingly depressed, irritable, hysteric apathetic; decline in concentration, comprehension and judgement; social isolation and withdrawal; possible self-harm.
- If your character doesn’t eat for 5 consecutive days, they are at risk of Refeeding Syndrome. This is extremely dangerous and can be fatal.
recommended reading:
- The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
- Psychology of starvation based on the above experiment.
DEHYDRATION
- DEATH: average 3 days; some live 8 – 10 days
- for the calculations: TWV = total water volume in body; average adult loses 2.5 litres of water per day.
- Assuming that your character does not eat, drink or absorb any moisture.
- 9 HOURS/2% TWV: thirst, discomfort, dry skin, loss of appetite; 50% loss of performance for athletes; elevated body temperature, rapid heartbeat, fatigue, dizziness when standing, decreased fluid secretion (sweat, urination, tears, etc).
- 24 HOURS/6% TWV: sleepiness, severe headaches, nausea, tingling in limbs.
- 36 – 72 HOURS/ 6 – 15% TWV: no urination, seizures, muscle spasms, shriveled skin, fainting, vision dimming, delirium.
- 72 HOURS+/15% TWV+: Organ failure.
recommended reading:
- dehydration on the psychology wiki.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
- DEATH: not known, but can stay awake for 11 days; max chronic sleep deprivation ever recorded (until death) – 6 months.
- NOTE: This does not mean you can stay awake for 6 months. It means you can survive that long with chronic sleep deprivation – going days without sleep and then sleeping once or twice.
- 24 HOURS: mental ability impairment of someone who has blood-alcohol content of 0.10%; everything is worse – emotional control, memory, attention, decision-making, hand-eye coordination.
- 36 HOURS: hormonal spikes everywhere; losing time; lack of motivation; head buzzing like you’re dehydrated.
- 48 HOURS: microsleep, regardless of what you’re doing (you fall asleep for 1-30 seconds and then become disorientated);
- 72 HOURS+: say goodbye to higher mental processes like decision-making and planning. Also, say good bye to saying goodbye because even simple conversations are hard.
- 80 HOURS+: … and hello, hallucinations!
recommended reading:
- this article of a soldier’s experience with sleep deprivation.
- Eleven Days Awake; The Experiment.
(He needs it. Badly. In my opinion, every Kaito does. But he’ll very, very rarely ever ask for it, because he feels he’s doing fine enough as it is and he really doesn’t like admitting that he can’t do something, whether it’s the Pandora search or something smaller scale. But even moreso for anything that’s probably going to get other people hurt if they try to help. And Kaito gets lonely, which doesn’t help him in trying to keep people away. To the point that, he’ll get close to people and help them, they’re not allowed to do the same if he gets a say in it.
But on that note, he does like helping those who he feels needs it. It usually makes them happy and he can ignore his own problems a bit more when he does. And as the manga has shown, if he takes a bigger liking to someone, he’ll go further out of his way too help.
It’s also, (in my opinion, I actually don’t know how it’d go over in actuality), made him a bit of a pushover. He cares too much. He’s not an idiot, and if he sees a bad situation, he won’t just let himself be completely walked on, but it’s why things like hostage situations or just anyone needing immediate assistance take priority over his job, in some cases. But only if it’s outside of his control. If he expected it or even planned it, then he has no problems. He’s softer than he should be, even if he can deal with things when he has to. And that both helps and hurts himself… People tend to like him easier, but then he’s also easier to take advantage of and get into trouble.)
(Welp, I feel a lot better now. Read manga, went out to eat with my dad, then managed to convince him to watch up to episode five of the MK specials before he took a nap afterwards. And now he wants to finish it. …Hope he doesn’t actually want a resolution, though, or he’s gonna be a bit disappointed…
And specials over the anime because Spider. Both of them know I’m weird and run RP blogs for thief and assassin characters, so…
Yep. Good second half of my night off.)
(i am here to be your fellow nocturnal!)
(*hugs* I feel like I should put the hours I’m normally awake/at my computer, because I run on an almost set clockwork. Still kind of sucks to be going to bed when most people start getting active, though. I miss out on a lot that way, even if I can read later. And then work cuts into most of the time, even if I take the opportunities when it isn’t as busy to be on Spider’s account anyway. (Too much trouble to log out and in back and forth between the two accounts from the phone.))
(…Well. it’s not going to be Munday for much longer here… I don’t mind telling about myself even when it’s not Munday, though. Well, for most general things, anyway. *sigh* I guess a random thing that people I’ve RPed with have noticed by now is that I’m up at odd times. I work the night shift at my job, so I’ve become very nocturnal. Hence why when something like this ask is sent, I can’t usually get to it until the next day, technically. And being up in the hours most people sleep is a pain, let me tell you…
Though if you meant general stuff, like name and such, I do leave a link to that sort of stuff, (and pictures) from the main blog page.)
((I really like that AU idea and would love to see you do it!))
(Thanks~ If I ever get organised enough, I’ll do a verses page with it on there. Maybe a few other ideas, though I’ll have to try and think of/remember them later. ^^; )
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