"are you sleeping?" / "no, i was just resting my eyes"

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when i was a kid i was always asking my mum this when she dozed off, i was kinda obsessed with her staying awake; had some kind of fear that she would go to sleep while i was still awake. quite often i would sit and watch her as much as i would watch TV to make sure she was awake.

maybe i had a fear in my subconcious that linked sleeping with death?

i was just reminded of it last night when my better half asked me "are you sleeping?"... "no i was just resting my eyes".

i was sleeping.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

when I was small I would get annoyed at my dad for falling asleep on the sofa when we were watching telly or something...I guess it isn't fun watching telly w/ a sleeping person. musta been annoying, for him, though!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

i have a fear of falling asleep lest i oversleep.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i get asked this in class sometimes

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i often fall asleep when watching movies with other people but i try to pretend i'm not sleeping so as not to disturb their movie-watching experience

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

I come from a family of dishonest 'eye-resters', we're like a bunch of old men working on their wartime memoirs after lunch.

― estela (estela), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Less often now I have nights when I am so terrified of falling asleep, for some barely tangible reason, that I lie awake for hours. It used to happen more so. I say barely tangible, I know pretty much exactly why it is - the idea of being dead horrifies me, and sleep is like a temporary version of death.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I suffer from nystagmus and I DO have to rest my eyes at times. so annoying when I get accused of being asleep!

― chocolate orgone accumulator (haitch), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

hi that happens to be almost every night. you should visit a sleep clinic.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

welcome, sister death

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

...and not read knut hamsun.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

sleep is the drug

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to sleep, now. Wish me luck!

The above happens very, very infrequently now if at all. I think I have resigned myself to death.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

what kind of folks fall asleep before kids?!? Sure, they've been working hard, etc, but are they bums? alcoholics? TV watchers?

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

tired people? ordinary people?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

weird

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

what kind of people fall asleep after kids?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:39 (twenty years ago)

OK. alternate reality, etc.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

what is the question anyway?

― Latham Green (mike), Friday, 13 January 2006 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, in my family the phrase is "disciplining and controlling my mind".

Apparently this originated a long time ago, during a particularly hot South African afternoon, when my mum and dad (still courting) were lounging under the shade of a tree, drinking beer to keep off the heat. My Gran admonished them for being so lazy, and told them that she was not going to waste the afternoon sleeping, that she was going to study, and "discipline and control her mind".

A few hours later, my parents, feeling very guilty, sloped off back to the house to study - only to find my granny FAST ASLEEP SNORING at her desk. "disciplining and controlling my mind" indeed.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, fantastic!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

didn't realise I was friends with such weirdos

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

that's a bit presumptuous

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

: )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I guess I don't have any sleeping quirks or associations of sleep with death : /

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I only associate death with orgasm, not with sleep.

Oh, sweet sweet sleep, how I miss thee...

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

sleep is more like life than death

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i'm doing this 'resting eyes' thing a lot at work today, trying to position my hand at the side of my face so nobody can see.

so far 2006 has been very weary

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

r u sleeping or
resting ur eyezzzzz

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:05 (nine years ago)

rude question

― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:22 (nine years ago)

My dad used to always say he was checking his eyeballs for cracks. I don't know if this was something he made up or a German saying he just used in English that made no sense. That happened a lot.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 20 October 2016 15:39 (nine years ago)

haha

checking my eyelids for cracks now

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:07 (nine years ago)

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