The_Mather1

How blatant is the parody? Because apart from that it's perfect. I actually woke up 10 hours ago but went back to sleep because I saw no point in going to school if I was going to be a zombie.

Hour 108: I'm bored and I no longer see any point in staying up as I've crossed the only reasonable milestone. I'm going to bed.

No, your lungs cannot expand further because they aren't physically capable of expanding further. Though lungs do make a nice analogy in terms of breathing; it's something we usually do automatically, but can assume control of. Though you are right in that the glands that produce hormones are subject to the unconscious part of the brain, those unconscious parts of the brain however can receive commands from the conscious parts, meaning you can relay commands to the glands given you make the effort to do so.

It's not deluding it's assuming control. Saying I'm deluding myself into releasing hormones is like saying I'm deluding myself into moving my arm to type this. My glands don't release hormones because I think they release hormones, I will my body to release them and wait for a change of condition before I decide to believe whether they're releasing hormones or not. Just like my arm doesn't move because I think it moves, I will my arm to move and wait for the neural feedback before I decide to believe whether it's moving or not.

You're really underestimating the human brain's effect on our physiology here. If the placebo effect lets belief alone cure or cause illnesses, then of course sheer willpower can control the release of hormones. Some fakirs can even stop their heartbeats. So tell me, why can't our brains supposedly control our hormones?

Personal experience. Controlling your hormones can actually give quite a noticeable effect. Using natural painkillers you can achieve quite a high, and by stimulating the release of growth hormones and glucagon (and probably insulin) you'll notice a temperature change in your body as the increased activity increases the heat production.

Not cold, 13°C specifically. Any lower and they keep ripening. Also I cannot set up a Tekkit server, as I barely have any internet speed here. I can however refer you to www.anembra.com / mc.anembra.com which is a server I'm playing on. And yes, Alg, it is. By keeping a calm mind it is possible to override your lower brain functions.

I said I controlled my shivering, not my body temperature. And you simply don't use a dictionary to look up scientific terms, that's like checking the bible for material on ancient history. And saying flesh is unaffected by temperature is like saying plant matter is, and why do you think bananas are stored at exactly 13°C? Biology is chemistry, and if there's something everyone ought to know about chemistry, it's the fact that a slight change of temperature can make a huge difference. (Btw: Bananas are stored at exactlly 13°C because at that temperature, the ripening (aka. cellular decay) grinds to a near complete halt.)

So you're actually assuming our cells don't decay faster in the cold just because they're instantly killed by the formation of ice crystals during rapid freezing? Our cells die faster at any temperature outside our comfort range. This is why killing them with heat doesn't necessarily mean lighting them on fire. When you put your hand in boiling water, the cells die because the temperature range is one suitable for a more volatile set of chemical reactions than those they are supposed to perform. Similarly your cells die at cold, but not freezing, temperatures because the temperature is suboptimal for the chemical reactions cells need to perform in order to live. And hypothermia does not mean lowered body temperature, it means suffering from the symptoms caused by lowered efficiency of certain organs and similar cold-induced disfunctions. And no, I wasn't shivering, because I was forcing my body not to by controlling my lower brain functions directly. (My hypothalamus is my [bleep], that's all there is to say on that matter.) On a related note to that last one; hot damn does forcibly releasing glykogon feel good. That pleasant, warm feeling as my muscles' energy stores are filled to the brim with glykogen... which reminds me that I should hurry up and eat something, it would be a waste if I had to produce excess insulin just to counteract the glykogon to get my blood sugar back up...

It was 10°c outside, I was wearing a t-shirt and I spent 6 hours talking to this friend of mine. And yes, lowered body temperature isn't exactly a danger, however when the tissue retains such low temperatures for a prolonged duration, it speeds up the cellular decay sufficiently that there should be consequences - there were none. Another thing to note is the fact that I didn't suffer from numbness, which means my body didn't regulate my bloodflow away from my arms, which again means my blood was cooled down and in turn cooled down my internal organs, slowing their functions, which is how hypothermia happens. What this means is that I should have suffered decay in my arms and at least a minor case of hypothermia, but I didn't, which is something I owe to my body being a resilient little [bleep].

I wasn't numb, my arms just held a constant temperature of 10°C. I know, that defies some of the requirements for human biology to function, but my arms really held that temperature all the way in to the bone (standing outside in a t-shirt in the middle of the night up here north of the polar circle for nearly six hours wasn't exactly the most thought out thing I've done). They didn't feel cold themselves, but touching them felt like touching a cold metal object and they refused to get any warmer.

Yeah, the cold doesn't do much to me either. Just a few days ago I managed to get my arms so thoroughly cold that they seemed to resist any attempt to heat them up again, even over the course of hours in a well heated room. However by spending the night in bed, I finally managed to get the flesh and bones to thaw out,

Yo, day four. I started on Saturday and it is now Tuesday. My head is now quiet for a change. For once in my life I'm not being bothered by a constant flood of idle thoughts that fill my mind and distract me.

Keep the game's age in mind. It's from 1998, making it just six years younger than Wolfenstein 3D.

I don't think that's possible in addition. I don't know how, but I managed to drink maybe 7l over the course of two days.

Never said I drank caffeine, I said I meditated for 3 minutes to clear the sensation. Until this morning I hadn't drank caffeine for the sake of staying awake, and here it was only as a security since going to school after 41 hours without sleep isn't exactly the most clever move.

Yeah, but long before that, there's a thing called fatigue that kicks in, but for some reason it isn't even giving any hints of being about to show it's ugly head here.

Doesn't the fact that this isn't backfiring count for anything? It's been 28 hours now, and I'm still going.

I wouldn't know about killing myself, but the method evidently works quite well seeing as I've been up for 25 hours now and you'd think I'd just jumped out of bed and downed a dozen cans of Red Bull. (Gross exageration by the way, I'm not actually lying on the floor and twitching from a heartattack.)

More like telling a joke or running face first into a wall. It's totally irrelevant to anything, but people only witness it and chuckle accordingly, it's not forced upon them.

You say no one cares, yet your responce indicates a hint of amusement, which was exactly what I was aiming for.

Well [bleep]. The human body sure is scary. I just managed to cure myself of sleep deprivation by meditating for three minutes and smacking my head around a little.

I'm not saying that as a claim that I read fast (though I do), I simply spent a LOT of time reading. And I simply threw a number out there because even listing all the books I've read would be an impossible feat. I started reading at the age of three. By the time I was proficient in English I had read practically every single one of the Hardy Boys books in Norwegian. I read LotR, in English, in the third grade... Not to seem intelligent, just because I used to like reading. Now the only reading I do is the few works that really pique my interest, and pretty much any article that has to do with physics.

I don't read comics either, with the exception of a very few webcomics. Reading fiction really doesn't interest me anymore, perhaps as a result of the fact that I've already read perhaps ten times the amount an average person does in a lifetime.

Yeah, when you use the Bison, it doesn't work as a backup, you have to use it as if it was your primary weapon. But that's also what's good about it, since when it comes to strength it's pretty much an undeflectable rocket launcher with ten times the reload speed.