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Brain: Open your eyes.
Person sleeping on bed: Permission denied.
Brain: Sudo open your eyes.
Person sleeping on bed: The brain is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
brain is not in the sudoers file
i think that’s called a coma or paralysis
A Sudo joke. Daring today aren’t we?
The incident report part is what truly scares me.
I always wonder to whom this gets reported to
Linus Torvalds. He’s making a list.
a little place i like to call /dev/null
Real answer: it used to be common for UNIX daemons to send mail to root or to other users. This wasn’t the same thing as email, because it didn’t hit a network unless you set that up. But it ended up in the same mailboxes.
Sleep paralysis sucks a lot. It’s terrifying. It would happen to me as a teen; I would be stuck in the morning. It has stopped but it’s really unpleasant.
I regularly have those dreams where I am desperately trying to open my eyes because of some danger or other, but they’re suuuper heavy and it doesn’t work. This is that
Sleep paralysis was part of untreated apnea for me. And it sucks.
I’m not a doctor, but you might consider a sleep study if you can.