Zombie Mode
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
e any of you ever experienced zombie mode
Oh yes, when I've been working on our race cars... Usually we are very late in preparations, for example we need to change the gearbox before the 24h race in late february and I can bet a large sum that no one will do anything until the week before. This usually means that we have to work a lot of late nights the week before a race. So you go to work, grab something to eat after work and then it's time to spend time in the workshop. I havn't been tinkering with cars or race cars until a couple of years ago and I tend to overthink everything when doing it. But sometimes I get really tired and then I stop overthinking what to do and just goes aherad doing it, that's usually when I'm most productive...
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Oh, yeah, being a late night guy myself, I know exactly what you mean. I've also found that the more alcohol I drink while working through the fatigue, the better code I tend to write... :laugh:
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I've also found that the more alcohol I drink while working through the fatigue, the better code I tend to write... :laugh:
Do you find that to be true the next time you check out the code too?
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
I call it that thing you do when you're young and stupid and you think your employer cares that you put in the extra time. All they really care about is the fact that you're young and stupid and put in the extra (free) time, thinking they care.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
hmm can't say i have experienced at big level... Kind of when i m doing some documentation then sometimes it happens... lack of use of grey matter :laugh:
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TorstenH. wrote:
I have the feeling that I'm able to do more when I sleep less
Lack of sleep is prone to produce hallucinations.
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lol... it never happened to me...
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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lol... it never happened to me...
That's what your hallucinations want you to believe.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Wrong, wrong, wrong - Zombies eat brains, they're not renowned for application of intelligence.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
For me, working from 8pm to 6am was my most productive time, no shows worth watching, nobody is going to call and interrupt, unless you're wearing headphones, gameplay would keep the spousal-unit and kiddies up...so there is nothing to do but get into the zone. As I've gotten older, I've found fatigue kills my memory, better to take a nap at that point and let all the would be's, could be's and maybe's get washed away. Come back remembering only the important stuff and let your subconscious have a swing at the problem. I don't depend on it, but many times I wake up with a solution, or a different take on a problem at hand. Always love that feeling and wonder how the background processing in my brain came up with the solution instead of the conscious one.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
I often entered zombie mode in college. I now work for a tiny company that lets me choose my hours and even let me set up a place to sleep in the conference room. Because of their flexibility, I was able to take up polyphasic sleep. Now, I never have a time of day that I get that tired, and I don't miss it. It always left me with a hollow/sick feeling the next day.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Sooo foolish. I never felt anything but tired if I coded for more than about 12 hours in a row. You can possibly borrow hours from the next day and spend them tonight, but you're fooling yourslef if you think that time will be productive. Your brain will have its sleep. Tonight or tomorrow, you can't change that. People who believe they can be productive in 24-hour bursts are as deluded as people who believe they are productive as multi-taskers.
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
So True... I've found that while coding late at night... there comes a point, where I stop "seeing" the code in my head... it just spills out into the computer... The next day, when i go back to look at it... i have no memory of writing entire methods, but they work perfectly!
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Zombies eat brains, u r what u eat, and I thrive in Z mode, but I also notice my budds and their delicious brains
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
I call it diabetes, zombie mode was an effective step to wreck myself. For starter: The Sleep-Diabetes Connection[^] Prediabetes[^]
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When I was in college, I would sometimes work late into the night / early into the morning. At some point, I would no longer be tired and I would enter what I called "zombie mode". Basically, work stopped feeling difficult and I just got done whatever needed to get done. I always thought this was because I no longer had the energy to feel strong emotions (such as being tired) and my fight or flight instinct kicked in and sided toward fight. I was surprised while reading about William Sidis (he had one of the highest IQ's) to come across this same concept. Here is a quote by William's father: "If you do prolonged mental work you will find yourself grow tired, but if you keep on working the feeling of fatigue will pass away. You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent. Have any of you ever experienced zombie mode / reserve mental energy? What do you call it?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
You are drawing on your reserve mental energy." It seems William was trained to tap into this "reserve mental energy", which is why he was able to become so intelligent.
Doubt most of that. In terms of sleep it is just a matter of cyclic tendencies. Thus one gets more 'tired' up to a point, passes that point, recovers a bit and then works towards another point. That is how the human body works. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
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For too long ya.. did two jobs and college at same time, after that two jobs. Hell I still work my 8 during the day, and up coding in night. Like Johnny here, I'm a "night walker" as well (much to the annoyance of my wife). It comes in handy as I can still do my IT stuff during the day, and I have a Niche job area as "Night Chef" in my cooking travels (the fun is at night anyways while working in the kitchen). One thing I've found is I code Better at night and design (ie web and graphic) better during the day. Coding I get into such a zone and disturbances tend to annoy me, while in web design I can get uber picky on how I want things but can deal with distractions.
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Yeah, I find the up-in-the-air zone of design is sometimes easier during the day, but I've a 'very novice' designer, so I sometimes need peace to get my creative side unblocked.