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[xp_tarot]

I believe I have found my limit on how long I can go on two to three hours of sleep a night before my body and my mutation are at odds. Seventeen days.

My body won, for anyone who might be curious.

Doug - I am -very- sorry about missing our breakfast date. I slept through my alarm clock, through Amanda waking up, through my morning class and am only just getting up and fully awake now.

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

So that's... 34 to 51 hours in two and a half weeks? Wow. I can do that if I'm actually using my power constantly, but I haven't gone THAT long with it.

Amusing, you and Amanda have powers that cause insomnia, mine cures it. Heh.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Possibly more, I was not keeping track.

The insomnia is not usually a problem for the first few days. After that, I start taking inadvertant naps after lunch. I need, it seems, less sleep, but not -no- sleep. From what Dr. MacTaggart says, it seems like I can survive on five hours of sleep a night on average, but that my sleep needs are erratic.

.. Actually, what she said was longer, but I am not sure I understood the rest. My mutation confuses me.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Interesting. According to the doctors, mine seems to mimic REM sleep to some extent. Although if I go too long without actual sleep, I don't get tired so much as start zoning out and losing focus. Ms. Blaire's the one who actually pointed it out, I think when I kind of tripped out in Music class she got the clue. Now part of my homework is to SLEEP. This is me grumbling.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

From what I recall, mine mimics a serious mental disorder. I suppose seeing the future, accurate or not, could be called a break from reality, after all.

If you tell me that sleep is overrated, I shall be forced to mock you, and make comparisons to a certain blond I know who has stated the same thing.

I can confirm that.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

It looks an _awful lot_ like a disassociative break.

What in the bad old days used to be called schizophrenia.

*sighs* I have mind-scanned far too many mentally ill people. Not that Marie-Ange is mentally ill, because she's not, but the states she gets into remind me of it strongly.

Manuel

Re: I can confirm that.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I occasionally wonder, were I not precognitive, might I have one of those disorders?

I don't think so.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

But I'm the guy who had to take Psych twice.

Ask Hank or Moira or Madelyn one of the other doctors. They could probably tell you.

Manuel

Re: I don't think so.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I think I would rather not know.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You play dirty, Mademoiselle Colbert.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I just find the similar traits that all of the computer and machine people share to be amusing.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

What, wearing glasses?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Thinking that sleep is over-rated and a waste of time.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think it's a waste of time. Sleep is when I can set everything to run automated diagnostics that I don't need to watch for five or six hours. Biologically, it's necessary, so it's definitely useful.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

You want I should flip back through any morning classes and hash out some notes for you? I don't feel like I play around with the nifty bonus extras on my mutant powers enough.

What I need is a director's commentary, I think. I could walk around, and while I do stuff, you'd hear a couple guys in the background cracking jokes about how this scene was so different in the roughs and all the best parts got left on the cutting-room floor for the theatrical version.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

That would help, yes. I should be able to keep up, but notes never hurt.

I imagine Doug and Forge could probably work out a way to give you one of those web-cameras so you could do just that.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Will do, then. I'll try to keep it down to one awful pun per paragraph. ;)

And that would be cool, but not as cool as just having it be part of my mutant power.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

It would be -funny- to make a movie of your life with your dupes making commentary.

If you had a web camera, and the movie was on a computer, and you made a dupe, would ... it make two cameras and two movies? If you make a copy of something digital are they ectoplasmic digital things? How does that ...

Did I not say once that I was never thinking about your mutation ever again?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

It would. I should try that one of these days.

If I duped a web camera . . . I think it would depend. If it was a regular webcam, the second one would just be not plugged in and not working, but I'm pretty sure if I actually plugged it in then it would work. I mean, when I dupe and I'm wearing my watch, both watches work. If it was a wireless one, though, they'd both be transmitting on the same frequency . . . probably there'd be interference, or something.

And yeah, you did. I think you've said it more than once, actually. :)

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I still want to know what happens if you dupe holding one of my images.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Well, we should do that, then. Quit making yourself too sleep-deprived to remember about it. :)

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

We should. And I am not sleep-deprived now..

Food deprived, but that is easily fixed.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Especially since I've had three dupes slaving away in the kitchen to make sure there's lunch for everybody. Skipping meals is just insensitive and unappreciative, and I may have to go find a dark corner to go sit in and moan about the horribleness of my life.

. . . Oh wait, hot roast beef sandwich and six-inch oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies. All is well with the world again.

[xp_daytripper]

I figured when you didn't move even after I knocked over that pile of spellbooks I'd been reading last night that you needed the sleep. This is me being completely not-sorry, by the way. *grins* Appreciate it while it lasts.

I've got notes on music appreciation for you. Well, I will once I type them up, since being able to read them would be a good thing, yeah?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I do not even -remember- that.

... being able to read the notes is definitly a good thing. I always have a vague suspicion that learning all those ancient languages had done interesting things to your shorthand.

[xp_daytripper]

*grins* There was a crash, and some swearing, some of it in English even, since of course the biggest, heaviest book in the pile managed to land on my foot.

Learning all those ancient language did something interesting to my spelling, that's for sure. Thank fuck for spell check. ;)