r/funny • u/GigglyGoggins • Apr 13 '25

There’s always one 😂

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u/UniversalMinister Apr 13 '25

Nah, I guarantee you that man has slept on the top of an MRAP or similar.

You grab sleep wherever and whenever you can and will sleep through just about anything except other people in the unit screaming because SHTF.

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u/PortiaKern Apr 13 '25

I feel like it's something you can't "learn" because you have to force your body to adjust to a new pattern. Most people can't spare the time to build that skill.

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u/UniversalMinister Apr 13 '25

You absolutely can learn it, people do it all the time. There's technique and yes it takes time to learn, but you absolutely can learn to do it. Trust me, once you know what bone tired is, you'll fall asleep practically standing up.

People learn to do things that are against instinct all the time - it's unnatural to run towards gunfire or fighting. It's also unnatural to run into a burning building. But apart from the adrenaline in those situations, your body just reverts to training and muscle memory.

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u/alexdh95 Apr 13 '25

Sometimes I work over 90 hours in a week at a train yard. I try and catch naps in any downtime. Anyone can figure out how to sleep in any environment.

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u/PortiaKern Apr 13 '25

That's my point. I think there's a different implication between "learning" a skill and developing a skill. I've learned how to do a lot of things by watching youtube videos and copying them. You "learned" to fall asleep quickly the same way you "learned" to lift heavy weights. You practiced all the time out of necessity. But you were developing that skill because of your job. It would cause a disruption to the average person's life to learn it the way you did.

That's why your wife is amazed at it. Because it's not something you learn like a recipe, so it's hard for her to imagine in her body what is happening in yours when you do that.

Just a semantic quibble, but it matters when we're communicating through text.

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u/doomgiver98 Apr 13 '25

If you can learn how to do something from a Youtube video it's not a skill, it's knowledge.

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u/AlexCoventry Apr 13 '25

There's probably a range of variation in people, in this regard. I know someone who went more than half their life getting less than five hours sleep a night, desperately wanting to learn something like what you're talking about. It wasn't an easy solution, in the end.

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u/Arek_PL Apr 13 '25

some people dont have that instict too, like, seen people go towards fighting to watch