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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Thank you for posting that quote!! Glad he doesn't actually have narcolepsy. That sleep paralysis experience is really really frightening tho. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Just occurred to me that it's actually really awesome that people who don't understand narcolepsy can relate so well to this song, that it speaks to all these other things they deal with ... who would have thought a song written about such a misunderstood condition by someone who it turned out didn't even have it could be so deeply understood in a completely different way ... Pretty cool.
If narcolepsy's taught me anything at all it's to find the purpose and the good in everything you can ...
For a few hours it was really bothering me that people wouldn't accept this song for what it's about, instead they said no, it's not narcolepsy, it's really this or that ... Basically my life ... I'm the misinterpreted song ... except in reality the song is more understood than I am because they can relate to how he felt through their own also difficult experiences. If only narcoleptics or people who interested in hearing about it could relate, then I guess it would be a pretty lame song.
Would be nice if more people who hear about narcolepsy would take a moment to learn what it is esp. if they know someone with it, but that's besides the point. GREAT SONG ... |
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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's a pretty depressing, desperate song written about what it's like to have narcolepsy which is depressing unless you develop a hell of a sense of humor about it and learn to deal ... took me a few years to get there. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Good observation, however, methamphetamine would only be used as treatment if he were self medicating (likely I'm sure). But you were close. Prescription amphetamines are the treatment used to keep narcoleptics awake during the day, that's the only treatment option available really, no cure yet. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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not so much symbolic as literal ... Not hard to become depressed when you're narcoleptic. Felt myself sliding into it just days ago when no matter how much I slept (a few days) it was as though I'd never slept at all ... a narcoleptic never feels rested, it's a constant state of sleep deprivation. It's meds all the time, sleep all the time and so many places in between, wanting normal, remembering things once accomplished, wishing to function but unable to do the simplest things sometimes, passed out somewhere, no cure but to medicate the sleepiness and overmedicate and medicate some more as the uneducated majority of which your closest family and friends are a part see lazy, crazy, irresponsible, drug addict and make ridiculous suggestions like going to be an hour earlier at night. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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not so much symbolic as literal ... Not hard to become depressed when you're narcoleptic. Felt myself sliding into it just days ago when no matter how much I slept (a few days) it was as though I'd never slept at all ... a narcoleptic never feels rested, it's a constant state of sleep deprivation. It's meds all the time, sleep all the time and so many places in between, wanting normal, remembering things once accomplished, wishing to function but unable to do the simplest things sometimes, passed out somewhere, no cure but to medicate the sleepiness and overmedicate and medicate some more as the uneducated majority of which your closest family and friends are a part see lazy, crazy, irresponsible, drug addict and make ridiculous suggestions like going to be an hour earlier at night. |
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| 3rd Alley – I need sleep Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Having Narcolepsy myself it annoys me (just a teeny bit) that even though his girlfriend possibly has narcolepsy he would wish for it so he can sleep ... obviously he doesn't "get" what narcolepsy is, that it isn't any kind of relief at all because it's not "real" sleep, there's no REM function ... you can sleep for days but never feel rested, always feel like you stayed up all night ... hmm, kind of like he feels now ... If I could offer him some advice I'd say stop trying so hard to sleep, just find some way to amuse yourself or something useful even (write more songs!) until you feel sleepy even if you wind up stay awake all night, better than fighting with yourself all night with the same result in the morning ... let your brain accept what it wants instead of putting it to war with its own self ... once you stop trying to control whatever's going on there you'll feel better and maybe even sleep. |
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