If You Know What's Good for You
Overslept Lyrics
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Well adjusted and depressed
I buy my thrills and pay my bills
And they both get repossessed
If I had the time or money to find myself
Would I really become anybody else?
From the moment adulthood dragged me
I've wondered why I work the dirt then pay to rent the earth
It's harder than I want to dismiss the thought
Under the thumb of the hand that feeds me
It doesn't feel good
Like I thought it would
So do we just put our bones through the motions
Until we're long in the tooth?
Fistfuls of youth to remind us
We don't reach out like we used to
Collapse into the codependence of a sandalwood scented home
When the air is sweet on the garbage heap, why would you go into parts unknown?
When I start to see myself in somebody else do I make a change?
Or am I the one who needs it?
It's hard to tolerate
The sound that ego makes
When it's the only thing left in the room after you
Buy the view and assume they'd let you take it with you
So do we just put our bones through the motions
Until we're long in the tooth?
Fistfuls of youth to remind us
That we don't reach out like we used to
Optimistic limbs keep me in your grip
'Cause if you learn to let me go I'll never be more
Than a photograph of the life I had before I pulled the curtain back
And chose not to ignore that we all just
Fear the end of automatic motion
When there's nothing left of our youth
It crosses my mind every night now
If I found peace would I keep it?
In "If You Know What's Good for You" by Overslept, the lyrics explore feelings of disillusionment and dissatisfaction that come with adulthood. The first verse delves into the singer's chemical dependency and how they struggle to make ends meet--paying bills and buying thrills--only to have them repossessed. The second verse speaks to the feeling of being trapped in the routine of work and paying rent, wondering why we work so hard to pay for the earth we already inhabit. The chorus poses a question about whether we are simply going through the motions of life until we are old and unfulfilled, and whether our ego and material possessions hold us back from making meaningful changes.
The third verse focuses on the desire for comfort and safety, choosing to stay in a familiar place even if it may not be the most fulfilling. The singer questions if they should make a change when they start to see themselves in others or if they are the ones in need of change. The chorus repeats, emphasizing the theme of feeling stuck in a never-ending cycle until old age.
Finally, the last verse contemplates the fear of losing control and being stuck in automatic motion, wondering if finding peace is possible and if it can be maintained. The overall tone of the song is a call for introspection and reflection on our lives, questioning whether we are truly happy with the path we are on and if there's anything we can do to change it.
Line by Line Meaning
I've been so chemically dependent
I have been relying heavily on drugs or alcohol
Well adjusted and depressed
I seem to have my life together, but I'm still feeling sad and hopeless
I buy my thrills and pay my bills And they both get repossessed
I try to enjoy life, but end up losing both the fun and the money I spent on it
If I had the time or money to find myself Would I really become anybody else?
I wonder if I would change as a person if I had the opportunity to discover who I really am
From the moment adulthood dragged me Out of wonder and into work
As soon as I became an adult, I was forced to work and lost my sense of curiosity
I've wondered why I work the dirt then pay to rent the earth
Working so hard to afford basic necessities doesn't make sense to me
It's harder than I want to dismiss the thought Under the thumb of the hand that feeds me
I can't stop thinking about how controlled I am by the people who provide for me
It doesn't feel good Like I thought it would
The reality of my life is not as enjoyable as I anticipated
So do we just put our bones through the motions Until we're long in the tooth?
Do we just go through life on autopilot until we're old and unable to enjoy it anymore?
Fistfuls of youth to remind us We don't reach out like we used to
I try to hold onto my youth to remind myself of how I used to be outgoing and adventurous
Collapse into the codependence of a sandalwood scented home When the air is sweet on the garbage heap, why would you go into parts unknown?
I opt for the comfort of my familiar home even when there are better opportunities elsewhere
When I start to see myself in somebody else do I make a change? Or am I the one who needs it?
When I notice similarities between myself and others, I wonder if it's time to change or if it's just me who needs to grow
It's hard to tolerate The sound that ego makes When it's the only thing left in the room after you
I struggle to accept the arrogance and self-centeredness of some people when it's all that's left once everything else is gone
Buy the view and assume they'd let you take it with you
I foolishly assume ownership of things I enjoy, forgetting that I can't take them with me when I'm gone
Optimistic limbs keep me in your grip 'Cause if you learn to let me go I'll never be more Than a photograph of the life I had before
I rely on hope and positivity to keep me going, as without them, I'll be stuck in the past
I pulled the curtain back And chose not to ignore that we all just Fear the end of automatic motion
I have faced the truth that people are afraid of losing their routines and are uncomfortable with change
When there's nothing left of our youth It crosses my mind every night now If I found peace would I keep it?
I worry about losing my youthful energy, and wonder if I would continue to appreciate serenity if I experienced it
Writer(s): Elias Armao
Contributed by Reagan T. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Jarmezrocks
@Mie Gravgaard well I am not sure? It's just a guess? I'm proof of subliminal learning though? I slept through most of my university science degree and still got high distinctions, distinctions and only a few credits?
I could hear everything going on when I was completely asleep? I can go into REM sleep in 15 seconds? I didn't get diagnosed for narcolepsy until 3 years after my uni degree 🤭
So I have a science degree and then specialised in GIS spatial mapping and cartography? I slept the MOST in my GIS class? I could internally visualise everything in my dreams?
Our lecturer at University became annoyed with me always sleeping in class because it distracted others poking fun at me; so the teacher made an example out of me and it backfired? Lol he yelled my name and snapped me awake out of my sleep and was standing there with a white board marker; then he asked me to do the complex reasoning answer on the board?
I looked at it? And thought .. Hmm I can answer this! It was one of those trick questions of b finding the an area of a really really obscure waterbody that cross sectioned 5 or 6 parcels with various known attributes but not all attributes in all fields?
I stepped through a multi part calculation and thinking of it in reverse? Like if you can calculate all of the known areas then the obscure shape is basically the the total area minus all the known areas 😉
It seemed simple to me at the time?
Anyway the teacher said 'very good please sit down and please come and see me after class!'
I thought he was pissed at me? Low and behold he handed me another sheet of paper and asked me to do the complex reasoning questions from a previous year exam even though we hadn't learnt all of the course material yet? He asked me to talk him though it and I got 3 out of 4, 100% right and he corrected me in the 4th one because I was on the right track and then I changed my mind to answer it another way and he said.....'no keep going you were going right in the first attempt.... See if you can answer it?'
I then left University and got employment with a company known as ESRI 😉
My a year later my teacher rang the company for support. I had tech support put the call through to my desk. He was was amazed to hear my voice. The end/
PS. I can literally slow mo, play, pause, rewind and fast forward any kind of physically visualised video or imagined created video like it's a movie? This isn't normal
David G Austin
I’ve been dealing with some form of chronic fatigue — probably either chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral fatigue syndrome — for two-and-a-half years. I went from sleeping 8-9 hours on a daily basis to sleeping 11-14 hours each day. Some days I’ll sleep up to 16 hours, especially if I didn’t sleep enough the day before.
I’ve been tested for so many things. Hormone disorders, diseases like Lyme and West Nile, DNA disorders, you name it. I’ve had vascular studies and, of course, sleep studies. The only thing that ever showed a problem was a sleep study that showed I had a moderate level of sleep apnea. I’ve been using s CPAP device for about 18 months now, but I still sleep just as much.
I’ve had Type 1 Diabetes for 42 years now, so that’s usually what gets blamed for any unexplained illness. That doesn’t help, of course; we have no solutions without an actual cause. I take a stimulant medication to wake myself up when I need to be awake, but that medication doesn’t cause me to sleep less. It just delays the sleep. Once the medication wears off, I have to go back to sleep.
Worse than sleeping half my life away, I have the corresponding "brain fog." I can’t remember things and I can’t concentrate on things. When given tests to determine cognitive Function, I do extremely well. I have always had a freakishly strong memory, never having to review materials before tests, being able to remember entire pieces of music after playing through them once or twice (I’m a professional musician). That memory Is still there, but I still have trouble with focus and long-term recall.
I can’t work most of the time, either. I can work part-time for a week or two, but after that I have to sleep more than usual for at least a week. Trying to work without that rest period causes me to become so exhausted that I can’t function. There aren’t any jobs I can find that let you take that much time off, I’ve learned. Right now I work for an opera company that only does three to four operas per year. It’s work but it’s nowhere near a living wage to work, at most, eight weeks per year.
I wasn’t depressed before I started sleeping so much, but having to live like this has caused severe depression. I’ve been on several different antidepressants over the past year and they’ve worked to an extent, but they haven’t caused me to sleep any less. They’ve just killed my sex drive and any interest I have in hobbies or other things I used to enjoy.
I’ve been denied disability twice; apparently being unable to wake up after only 10 hours of sleep, being exhausted all the time, and being unable to think clearly isn’t a disability. Now there’s this video here telling me I’m causing even more damage to my body. Yay.
Ara Claire
I have "Long Phase Idiopathic Hypersomnia" which I started to see the effects of around the age of 7-8 and has ebbed and flowed in varying degrees of severity over the years until I reached the age of 40 when it seemed to steadily get worse until it plateaued to the moderate to severe level it is at now (I'm 47). No matter how much sleep I get, my brain and body functions as if I'm 2-3 days sleep deprived...this is something I have gotten used to and compensate for pretty well so long as I'm strict about taking my sleep aid meds at night by a specific time to ward off insomnia and I at least get 4-6 hours of sleep during that period.
The less sleep I get at night, the more hours of sleep deprivation that get added on to what I'm already naturally deprived of at baseline. This makes trying to get through the daylight hours absolutely hellish and when I start having more premature ventricular contractions than normal, that's when I know I've gone too far on not getting enough sleep at night and it is time for self-correct...cause if I don't, then I know the next symptom I'm going to start experiencing is Orthostatic Hypotension which can be potentially dangerous for me since it involves my heart rhythm getting thrown off, not just my blood pressure dropping.
But, by far the worst part of this sleep disorder is the oversleeping. Because my sleep rhythms are abnormal my mind and body naturally want to sleep 10-16 hours. If I go with what my body and mind wants over a span of several days, I end up having symptoms similar to Fibromyalgia where I have widespread inflammation throughout my body, especially in my tendons and joints, I begin to experience blood thinning (which Doctors still can't figure out), and slow wound healing (I had bug bites on my legs from working out in the garden that I never scratched or picked at, but they took TWO MONTHS to heal...and even here a month later, there are a few dark marks that haven't fully gone yet)...and while the weight gain is a thing, I'm lucky that it is only 5-15 lbs that don't push me into the overweight category, and it goes as quickly as it comes on. Oh, and the headaches with oversleeping are not headaches...they are brain crushing migraines.
So, the consequences on my physical wellbeing from over sleep, do seem more drastic than those I get from not sleeping enough. That being said, despite a well managed sleep routine, I still struggle with malfunctions of my autonomic nervous system that can cause dangerous spikes in my blood pressure (which is typically in the healthy range) out of no where, if I get upset...especially angry, my blood pressure can decide to just bottom out which is again, dangerous...my blood sugar too can totally bottom out, even when I have eaten recently. There have been many times it is like my brain forgot how to tell my mouth and esophagus how to work together to perform the act of swallowing and the scariest thing I have experienced is a hand full of times I was just about to fall asleep and my brain decided to just skip out on sending the signal for my lungs to expand...it takes me sitting up or standing up for my brain to go "OH! YEAH! MY BAD!"
Again, all that latter stuff is when I'm getting proper sleep. This sleep disorder is no joke...and the necessity for just the right amount of sleep is not something to take for granted. Not getting enough and getting too much can literally end you way sooner than you'd like and the health issues it can cause before hand are in no way fun...they are debilitating.
Bideho
Hello, I'm one of those unlucky folks with hypersomnia. I also happen to do science! So I know a bunch of things about my own disease. Sorry, it might be a long read.
Hypersomnia is described as sleeping at least more than 11h in 24h. We distinguish between peripheric hypersomnia and central hypersomnia. The difference between the two is that central hypersomnia can't be explained by another disease like depression, cancer, cerebral trauma... etc, while peripheric hypersomnia has an identified cause. Central hypersomnias are considered neurological disorders because it appears the fundamental process that regulates the sleeping process in the brain is disturbed.
There are 3 main types of central hypersomnia, all considered rare diseases :
- The Kleine Levin syndrome, better known as "sleeping beauty" syndrome. It is the rarest out of the three hypersomnia and has no known cause. Basically, patients get sleep attacks that can last for multiple days. During those sleep attacks, they usually wake up for around 30 min to fulfill their basic needs (like eating). Usually, when they wake up during a sleep attack, they are very disoriented and can be aggressive because they are not really awake.
- Narcolepsy type I (Gelineau's disease) with cataplexy is characterized by sleep attacks that last for a few minutes. Cataplexy is best described as the feeling of "fainting while remaining conscious" (your body freezes up and you can't move anymore as when you're sleeping and your brain prevents you from moving). Cataplexy can be triggered by emotions like extreme happiness, sadness, or surprise. In type I narcolepsy, a portion of the hypothalamus (a brain region) is destroyed. More precisely, the neurons that release orexin are destroyed by the immune system, making narcolepsy an auto-immune disease. Orexin is a neurotransmitter involved in regulating sleep (orexin induces awakening so without it, it's harder to wake up and to remain awoken).
- Narcolepsy type II withOUT cataplexy, is more or less the same as type I except for the cataplexy symptoms. You still get sleep attacks, but it feels more like getting suddenly tired and not being able to fight the tiredness. Your body doesn't freeze. It's less clear what causes narcolepsy type II in some cases, as some patients don't have their hypothalamus destroyed, which suggests there's another cause for narcolepsy type II disease.
- Idiopathic hypersomnia. In many ways, this disease is similar to narcolepsy type II, to the point it's currently believed narcolepsy type II and idiopathic hypersomnia are the one and same disease, just on a different spectrum (at least for patients who have their hypothalamus intact). "Idiopathic" means "no know cause" so we don't know what goes wrong in those patients and why. Some recent studies showed the anterior cortex of a special region of the brain called the "default mode network" (which is believed to be involved in mind-wandering) is hypofunctionning as if a part of the brain is as active during sleep as when it's awake (which shouldn't happen, you should see a rise of activity when you're awake in this part of the brain). In simpler words, half of the brain is in "sleep mode" permanently. Some other studies showed there's an imbalance of molecules involved in the central clock within the suprachiasmatic nucleus, in which molecules active during sleep are not properly destroyed when you're supposed to be awake (so those molecules remain when you are awake, which shouldn't happen because your body is then confused about whether you're really awake or not). Science is still in its infancy when it comes to idiopathic hypersomnia and central hypersomnia in general.
Obviously, all those diseases have common symptoms : oversleeping (at least more than 11h/day every day for at least 3 months), permanent fatigue, drowsiness, lack of attention and concentration, inability to get rejuvenating sleep, sleep attack, sleep drunkenness (state of heavy confusion and disorientation upon awakening) ; sometimes but not always somnambulism, hallucinations upon falling asleep of waking up, sleep paralysis... etc.
I had a lot to say, sorry! Also sorry for the grammar mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker.
Kiwi-piwi
Hey, I used to have excruciating heart burn for two years since 2019, and only fixed it the last half year. Doctors don't know the reason even after looking through my stomach with a camera. So they advised I take Proton pump inhibitors. I realized they didn't help and stopped taking after the first month. Living almost two years with excruciating heart burn. Since 8 months ago I tried multiple diets and reseached online every day about nutrition and found the way to lessen heart burns and now after that 8 months my heart burn lessened to the degree it doesn't bother me that much anymore. For some people, cutting out processed junk food and grains is enough to heal them. But for people like me who are really sensitive, much more effort is needed to get rid of heartburn. And for me it's so worth it to not be suffering in pain everyday. I'm happy to finally be able to live a normal life again. I'll sum up everything I've learned the past year, and what you need to do to heal your gut. Of course, this is based on my interpretation of many studies and anecdotal evidence including my own personal experience.
Eat high quality meat (mostly beef and pasture raised eggs if you tolerate eggs, a bit of fish, chicken and pork now and then. Grass fed and finished is very much preferable if you have enough money. Ground beef is best bang for buck and more nutritious than lean steak, but make sure it contains no other added garbage and cook it through), white rice, and fruit(apples, mangos, peaches, pears, melon, these type of fruits. Make sure they are ripe and peel them before eating. Pumpkin and squash are okay if cooked well. No nightshades including tomatoes and peppers, no avocados, no bananas. They contain lectins and other anti-nutrients that could trigger heartburn). Meat is the most neutral and nutritious food and forms the base of your diet. White rice and fruit rounds it all out.
Fat and sugars don't cause heartburn. Plant defense chemicals do. People with a damaged gut should avoid them for a while. Avoid all vegetables, including seeds, roots, nuts, leafs, flowers, grains(except white rice), spices. They are very high in anti-nutrients such as gluten, lectins, oxalates and phytic acid. Thus most processed food, chicken nuggets, fries, soy sauce, bread, soda's, chocolate, coffee, and tea are definitely a no go. I used to think greasy fat food triggered my heart burn, but it just happens that those fatty foods are often garbage food. Eat a clean piece of fatty high quality ground beef with some salt, and it won't trigger you at all. Eat some chick nuggets or hamburger wrapped in flour and soaked in ketchup and other sauces will trigger me to no end. The exception is white rice though. White rice is traditionally seen as unhealthy because it has all its nutrients stripped away. But white rice is not only stripped of nutrients but also all its anti-nutrients, and thus suffices as a non triggering carbohydrate/glucose supplement. Fruits are generally low in defense chemicals, as they want to get eaten by animals to spread their seeds through their stool. The plants themselves of course do not want to get eaten and defend themselves through defense chemicals. Most animals defend themselves by running away, thus have no defense chemicals.
Use virgin coconut oil, beef tallow or real extra virgin olive oil for cooking, and avoid seed oils. They are very inflammatory. Only use salt as condiment, and have some lemon juice with every meal. You want sour food and not alkaline food, it helps your damaged gut digest your food and nutrients so you can heal. Though it sounds counter intuitive, sour food will lessen heart burn for most people. Alkaline food, baking soda, and proton pump inhibitors will only delay the inevitable pain by neutralizing your stomach acid for a short period, but you won't heal as you cannot absorb your nutrients without stomach acid. This results in severe nutrient deficiencies in the long run, and worsening health problems. To restore a healthy body function you NEED stomach acid, but most people with heartburn actually lack stomach acid to digest their food. Their gastric valve gets no closing signal because their body recognizes that they have low stomach acid. To restore proper production of stomach acid, you need nutrients from food. But to get nutrients from food you need stomach acid. It is a vicious cycle most people are stuck in. To help digest food many people suggest Apple cider vinegar, but I prefer lemon juice. Lemon juice's low PH helps digest food, but once digested by the body, its citrate content alkalizes your body PH. So it's a win-win. It also has a decent amount of vitamin C which helps fight candida and is needed for collagen synthesis of your gut lining. If you are bored with salt as only condiment, try ume su (japanese ume plum vinegar), it has a salty sour slightly fruity taste and should not trigger acid reflux for most people. Drink only water. Drink water/dairy kefir if you are constipated and it doesn't bloat you.
No need to worry about combining fat and carbs but if you really want to optimize eating order for best blood sugar response, then eat meat first, wait 5-10 minutes, then eat rice and fruit. What you do need to pay attention to is to give your gut enough resting time. Eat 2-3 times a day and give your gut atleast 12 hours continuous rest each day. Get enough sleep and have low stress. Walking and some resistance training are the best activities if you want to get active and healthier, but also don't overdo it as it is not 100% necessary to heal your gut, and overly stressing your body could make things worse.
Also extremely important: get enough vitamin D through sun or supplements if needed. Most people are very deficient without realizing. 5000-10000 iu daily if supplementing. Vitamin D is essential for your immune system and even affects your microbiome. Taking k2 and magnesium supplement with vitamin D is advised as they work synergisticly.
Do all of this for a few months and try to add back other plant foods one by one if you really want to eat them. Try them fermented first though, as they are easier to digest and are less likely to trigger heart burn.
Linnaeus Shecut
Young doctors are required to go without 8 hours sleep in hospitals all over the U.S. Sleep deprived doctors are asked to make major decisions by an industry that should know better.
Yulia N
yes but we've been "selected" for this xD. Only one who can perform cogntively under mild sleep deprivation can suceed to enter and pursue medschool.
And in my european country, you have 24hours of rest after a nightshift in hospital. So even more students who really need sleep, they can still pushed the day with coffee especially in surgery
SuperSuniiside
Doctors are overworked. If doctors could work part time and their education was subsidized like the war industry is, maybe healthcare would be a lot cheaper and easier to get
Zuki
@ben lawton i mean, you guyd can keep saying that until there are no more doctors or they're too busy because there are only a few doctors left to see you when you're sick
Fly Soup
@qjtvaddict Socialism wouldn't make doctors be less in demand.
Elijah Dushaj
They don't make any major decisions lmao
valentina
I used to suffer from depression induced hypersomnia, I slept between 10-16 hours a day. Even though I always got up for lunch and dinner, I still ended up 15 kg underweight, I was constipated and tired all the time but I had amazing dreams! I had intense lucid dreams that were more like an alternate reality where I didn't exist rather than actual dreams. While I'm happy I get to enjoy sunlight again, I do miss experiencing those cool dreams lol
Mark Elmslie
Interesting. My paranoid schizophrenic son sleeps eighteen hours a day, I did not know that this sort of thing was possible.
antony 96
This was hapenned to me too.. it's really bad to sleep more than 10 hours for body and mind...
the_demons_under_your_bed
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