Been waiting to upload them all. Pharmacology microbiology forensic medicine. RS3, December 13
Author: akshay
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What I Learned From Deactivating Facebook for 83 days
That it is not about the social network, it is about me.
I had just one thing in my mind when I took a break – “focus on studying”.
I thought facebook was the reason why I could not focus on textbooks, that I would automatically start doing better when I stop using facebook.And boy, was I not wrong?
I started getting distracted by gmail!
I started to read more of the email subscriptions I have, I started visiting more and more online magazines, reading through them, article after article.
It only felt counterproductive.
What was missing?
Having eliminated what seemed to be the greatest distraction, I was still distracted, and I started wondering why. I decided to observe myself. And the results? Not surprising at all.I simply could not read more than a paragraph of my textbook without getting distracted. Either I would start thinking about something in the textbook. Or I would start thinking about my college. Or I would get a great new idea which will change the way world works. Or I desperately want to visit some random website on the internet.
I simply could not read.
But why?
I don’t know.I know only one thing. That there is something wrong with my will. I have an obsessive disorder. I am addicted to distractions.
If all goes right, I will come out of this. I will curb that incessant urge to be in the know about everything. I will learn how to ignore some of the unread notifications. I will learn how to archive some emails without going through them. I will learn how to even check email only in two slots every day.
But I will still be spending hours to fix tiny errors on my blog template.
I know. I am crazy.
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Trapped in a Lucid Dream
Note to subscribers: Sorry for all the irrelevant question papers I posted. That was just a way of saving them, and gaining some organic hits.
So, it was pharmacology paper-2 today, and I think I had the longest night in my whole life today. Slept from 2:30 to 5 AM, and that’s all. (I know, it’s not new for some people out there. My friends had slept everywhere from 45 minutes to 5 hours)
Anyhow, such intense sleep deprivation gave me the amazing chance of experiencing an awesome lucid dream. And read till the end, there’s a surprise. So, here’s how it goes.
At 2:30 I set my alarm to 6 o’clock, and decided I’ll wake up at 5 o’clock. (I don’t like waking up to alarm. So, I keep the alarm tuned for a later time which I must absolutely get up at, and instruct my body to wake me up before that. I somehow end up waking between 5 & 6)
And then, I was home all of a sudden. Talking to my dad, watching TV, etc. Suddenly I realize I was dreaming. And here’s what made it different – I couldn’t wake up! I tried pinching myself, but I just couldn’t open my eyes. Like I was stuck. I tried ringing my phone up, so that I’d be woken by the ringtone. But alas! Connectivity trouble inside the dream 😛
So, I wrote down about this amazing lucid dream, and without wasting time, went on top of my house and jumped down.And then I woke up! 😀 I studied for a while, and went to write the examination.
And then, I actually woke up in my bed, at around 3:30. Still having a long time before 5 o’clock, I went back to sleep.
So, it was a lucid dream within a normal dream. The first one at my home was the second level dream, because it was really hard to come out of it. I felt like it took half an hour for me to come out of it. And the second one was the first level dream. Inception. Mind f***ed.