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the following poems are precursors to what became a sleep-deprivation thought experiment:    - crown of myrrh / c'est la vie!    - coming to december    - hydry jawa (hydra's consciousness)    - misery humour... at first there's only the subjective observation, but that is soon followed by an undeniable objective fact - that: these poems were written in frustration at not being able to solve     the times' (15th november 2017) súdokū puzzles no. 9455 (difficult) and no. 9456 (fiendish) - out of a mere subjective account,    i found my body dulled by a seeminngly perpetual sleep,             not morose, or numbed, disorientated, but somehow muted. my reaction was obvious:   you need to be sleep-deprived - the actual thought experiment happened rather unexpectedly... what i found the following incident is that, in rare conditions,    sleep-deprivation can allow the mind to transcend a regular pattern of sleep-rest, and engage in sleep-deprivation overdrive...         i only have one decent proof... but it's a **** good one...    hours of being constantly awake?       since 7pm yesterday...    from 7pm today, at quarter past 10pm, that's: 27 hours 15 minutes...    the times 20th november 2017 súdokū puzzle no. 9467 (fiendish) -   and the proof is the solution, completed in under 10 minutes:           6 2 5 9 4 8 1 3 7           9 7 3 1 2 5 8 4 6           8 4 1 3 7 6 9 5 2           3 5 9 7 6 1 4 2 8           7 8 4 5 3 2 6 1 9           2 1 6 8 9 4 5 7 3           5 6 8 2 1 7 3 9 4           1 9 7 4 8 3 2 6 5           4 3 2 6 5 9 7 8 1 the actual answer to puzzle no. 9467 will only be available in the times 21st november 2017   t2 supplement, and if in desperation you can only receive four clues before midnight...                but i'm cheap,   can't be bothered to pay 75 pence + network access charge...   for four numbers,      when the ******* phone number consists of eleven numbers. believe me, i never thought that sleep-deprivation, as a thought experiment could achieve a lucidity of mind that the otherwise sleep-recovery sometimes merely dulls the mind... notably via the dream fabric; not so long ago i found dreams to be exhausting,         very much like the iron curtain - they bugged me...    intellectually depraved -                      this velum somnium, just like the velum ferrum spawned the cold war, psychological warfare, false information, distortions,      exports of a "utopia" having been established, nonsense of every calibre...       no communist thought it was utopia, but some people on the other side of the iron grip must have thought so...   or were subverted into thinking it was so... hence the end result:    the current zeitgeist.
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 5:27 PM UTC
the sleep-deprivation thought experiment
the following poems are precursors to what became a sleep-deprivation thought experiment:    - crown of myrrh / c'est la vie!    - coming to december    - hydry jawa (hydra's consciousness)    - misery humour... at first there's only the subjective observation, but that is soon followed by an undeniable objective fact - that: these poems were written in frustration at not being able to solve     the times' (15th november 2017) súdokū puzzles no. 9455 (difficult) and no. 9456 (fiendish) - out of a mere subjective account,    i found my body dulled by a seeminngly perpetual sleep,             not morose, or numbed, disorientated, but somehow muted. my reaction was obvious:   you need to be sleep-deprived - the actual thought experiment happened rather unexpectedly... what i found the following incident is that, in rare conditions,    sleep-deprivation can allow the mind to transcend a regular pattern of sleep-rest, and engage in sleep-deprivation overdrive...         i only have one decent proof... but it's a **** good one...    hours of being constantly awake?       since 7pm yesterday...    from 7pm today, at quarter past 10pm, that's: 27 hours 15 minutes...    the times 20th november 2017 súdokū puzzle no. 9467 (fiendish) -   and the proof is the solution, completed in under 10 minutes:           6 2 5 9 4 8 1 3 7           9 7 3 1 2 5 8 4 6           8 4 1 3 7 6 9 5 2           3 5 9 7 6 1 4 2 8           7 8 4 5 3 2 6 1 9           2 1 6 8 9 4 5 7 3           5 6 8 2 1 7 3 9 4           1 9 7 4 8 3 2 6 5           4 3 2 6 5 9 7 8 1 the actual answer to puzzle no. 9467 will only be available in the times 21st november 2017   t2 supplement, and if in desperation you can only receive four clues before midnight...                but i'm cheap,   can't be bothered to pay 75 pence + network access charge...   for four numbers,      when the ******* phone number consists of eleven numbers. believe me, i never thought that sleep-deprivation, as a thought experiment could achieve a lucidity of mind that the otherwise sleep-recovery sometimes merely dulls the mind... notably via the dream fabric; not so long ago i found dreams to be exhausting,         very much like the iron curtain - they bugged me...    intellectually depraved -                      this velum somnium, just like the velum ferrum spawned the cold war, psychological warfare, false information, distortions,      exports of a "utopia" having been established, nonsense of every calibre...       no communist thought it was utopia, but some people on the other side of the iron grip must have thought so...   or were subverted into thinking it was so... hence the end result:    the current zeitgeist.
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Nov 20, 2017 at 5:27 PM UTC
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