Last night my back started hurting. I had a hard time sleeping and woke up this morning with such acute pain that I could barely stand. I've been driving a lot and sitting in my office chair a lot, I think that's why this happened. It's pretty painful, I see a lot of ibuprofen and heating pads my near future. Any advice on how to relieve back pain? It's in my lower back if that helps. On a positive note, I started a new music project last night, one that I am extremely excited about. As it progresses I may be calling on some of you hubskiers that I know are musicians to help me out. I'm super, super excited!
Luckily, my wife is a physician and she basically said, apply heat and take ibuprofen. I think it was an isolated strain. It's getting better and I don't think I'll be seeing a chiropractor. kleinbl00 is right though, core exercises help protect and strengthen the back. I was doing them very regularly and then stopped about 3 weeks back. It could be that my body is punishing me. Need to get cracking' again. Also, mk, I plan on doing your fast at some point next week. Probably starting Monday morning.
Thanks, I have done it before, but not without the aid of lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup. It was about seven years ago. Made for some interesting bowel movements…
May I recommend a read: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair-is-the-steelcase-leap/ I had a hard time sleeping and woke up this morning with such acute pain that I could barely stand. I've been driving a lot and sitting in my office chair a lot, I think that's why this happened.
Lower back pain is almost always due to inadequate musculoskeletal support. Your abs are lacking. The best way to improve musculoskeletal support to contradict lower back pain is by doing crunches and situps. Core strength is the best way to ensure that your back treats you right.
Victim of a season of varsity wrestling: decompress your spine. Hang off a bar if you can and let your shoulders drop and relax, doing the same through your back muscles down to your lower back until you're completely loose and hanging from your arms. bonus if you hang from your knees and hang down head-first, it opens up your spine and frees any pinched nerves.
Can sleep deprivation affect your vision? Cause I can barely see at the moment.. How long till I start hallucinating?
A friend who used to Dj/party in berlin had several weekends where he was awake for 2-3 days. He said that by Sunday, everything was possible. For him it was audible hallucinations. He had to go to therapy after doing that for 6 years. Could also be connected to all the stimulants he used to take
For the record, comments in this thread that may seem contrary, stimulants are bad things, pulling all-nighters or back-to-back all-nighters (or more) on stimulants are bad things, study drugs fall into this category of bad things, please guys be safe and don't be stupid and don't snort your adderal so you can "study harder." All those drugs do is make you feel better about your performance, they don't improve it. So yeah, I completely believe your friend had to go to therapy after doing that for six years, and I'm sure the stimulants didn't have nothing to do with it. When you live on drugs as a part of your regular lifestyle it's very hard to learn how to stop.
My personal "best" is just around 72 hours at a rock festival, it was the first time I discovered Red Bull & Vodka. Morning yoga helped as well. Put the powder down and stretch your hamstrings like a man.
Depends. How long have you been awake? How often are you sleep deprived? I found that when intensely sleep deprived I started to "hear" things long before I started to "see" them, and usually "seeing" was really "misconstruing actual shapes to be other than what they were." Like, shrubs for people, etc. I assume this is a result of midterms or something?
Took three 45-minute naps since 6:30am yesterday morning. That's not that bad as far as I'm concerned, but I usually miss a night of sleep at least weekly. I sleep ~5 hrs a night plus an hour in the afternoon. My sleep schedule is fucked. Intense school classes and piano, SATs, college apps on top of it... I'm not stressed, just overwhelmed.
If you are already prone to hallucinations you might snag a few, if not though I would not worry much about it. Sounds like you have enough on your plate. You will probably just feel loopy and out of it. But yes, your sleep schedule does sound awful. From what I understand, hallucinations can occur around 3 days of sleeplessness or so.
Semester's finally over...now to wait for grades and figuring out what I'm doing for New Years and when exactly I'm coming back here. Going to try and learn something during all the free time but no idea what yet.
Probably a business-related master's, maybe public policy or political science. Something with an international bent? There are a slew of English-taught programs, though I'd probably pick up German on the side. The only reason I'm doing this is that none of them have tuition fees.
I'm home for christmas vacation. I look forward to doing as little as possible, though I'm sure after a few days I'll go into withdrawals from not practicing. Had appointment no. 2/5 with counsellor on the road to getting HRT. I have no idea what we're going to talk about for the next 3 sessions. gatekeeping sucks, but if i can get HRT for free than it's worth it.
Apparently I need to learn WWise, FMod and generative audio. I'm hopeful I can trick my union into paying for the FMod certification as the WWise is gonna be cheap. The generative audio bit should be cake because I own and know Kyma, Reaktor and Bidule. I may have to release an album just to prove a point. Shit, I might have to create a game or some shit.
I've been feeling I need to gain at least some rudimentary knowledge with those tools as well. It seems a lot of sound design positions I've searching out lately label it as a requirement. I still can't afford a Kyma, but I use Reaktor. Lately I've also been learning to use CDP which has provided some great results. Bidule looks interesting.
Composers Desktop Project, A horrible to use set of sound manipulation tools that can produce excellent results. Especially so if you then go on to do some granular processing. It's used a lot by Electroacoustic composers. It was originally operated at command line level, but there are some GUI versions now that are somewhat usable. I think they're overhauling the GUI at the moment, plus someone did an alright looking implementation of it into Reaper. A typical window looks like:
Yeah, the offline processing can be a bit of a turn off. I would've never have adopted it myself but my tutor is an expert in it, so he was able to guide us through it efficiently. Once you get a feel for what each parameter does it isn't so bad, plus it's free.