essenceofman wrote:I keep 'welling up' today and have no idea why. I was fine yesterday. I also keep getting these strange 'shocks' in my head whenever I try to sleep.

yeh i started a new job on tuesday and was still feeling the acid. im getting throbbing jolts everytime i think too much, my sinapses are shagged out... dont know if my feet could have handled the mud anymore though so its fair game.. people should go to the glade comedown session at the volks club in brighton tonight for some open mic/mashups

essenceofman wrote:I keep 'welling up' today and have no idea why. I was fine yesterday. I also keep getting these strange 'shocks' in my head whenever I try to sleep.

ah man, glade you said that. I thought i had something wrong with me. I get it quite a lot afterwards. Only when im just trying to get off to sleep tho. Dont know what it is. Prob best not to know...?!

I'm off to work @ Shamania this coming wknd in the Lancashire countryside - I've become a festival whore

Yehhh I know what you all mean! I really miss Glade! And all the lovely friends I made! I know exactly what you mean by those brain throbs, I've always suffered them after an extremely heavy one... to me it feels like tiny electric shocks in my head.. and I keep waking myself up jolting Last night I woke up and said 'OH NO I NEED THE LOO!' really loudly because I thought I was in my tent


......However, something REALLY REALLY good has come out of Glade and I'm on top of the world right now

essenceofman wrote:I also keep getting these strange 'shocks' in my head whenever I try to sleep.

Commonly known as headshocks - caused by sleep deprivation but also a combination of seratonin depletion and usually occurs more in those who go on the smash more often and harder. It's your brain's way of saying "slow down mate"

Make sure you get a few good solid nights' sleep and eat a couple of bananas a day, or take some 5HTP, whichever's handiest.

I had one on Sunday morning when trying to sleep.

The sadness has really kicked in for me tonight I never realised how much i miss /love glade till i come back, so many happy smiley people, all there for a common reason. Doesnt happen anywhere else.




Theres always next year though

**Quote**Make sure you get a few good solid nights' sleep**Quote**

very hard when were browsing these forums lol

essenceofman wrote:I keep 'welling up' today and have no idea why. I was fine yesterday. I also keep getting these strange 'shocks' in my head whenever I try to sleep.

Ive been getting them all week and I keep screamin out in my sleep for someone to wake me up cause my dreams are so horrific.

Anyone else get the sense of impending doom? Its just like when your about to fall into deep sleep but theres a flash of light and you body jolts up as if it didnt you were about to die?

(maybe need a wee rest)

Just read all above posts and all i need is a few bananas and im away to me bed!

I've also felt proper shit since getting back. Pretty much broke up with the girlfriend just before I left, Glade was a total escape from all the crap that goes along with that and being at work and at home. I'm supposed to be working at Reading, really don't know if I can face my 3rd muddy festival this year. Bleh.

SoloStrike wrote:I'm supposed to be working at Reading, really don't know if I can face my 3rd muddy festival this year. Bleh.

I feel your pain, I don't think i can face another muddy one this year either.

My next one is Beautiful Days in August, although supposedly we will get our proper summer back by then.

Ah, sorry to hear that, Solo - ya shoulda headed over to Camp GT as I was giving out 5htp like sweets at one point (not that'd help too much with the gf situ of course). You coming to Bangface in Sept?

Proper Summer?! What's that again... I think I've forgotten...

Cheers boki, not sure about Bangface yet, lineup doesn't look that hot so far. See how it goes, onwards and upwards!

We are just in at the moment playing Hallucinogen by LSD really fookin loud on the decks in the living room @ the moment - not bad for a wednesday night,..... who said the festival is over!!

Sperge wrote:

SoloStrike wrote:I'm supposed to be working at Reading, really don't know if I can face my 3rd muddy festival this year. Bleh.

I feel your pain, I don't think i can face another muddy one this year either.

My next one is Beautiful Days in August, although supposedly we will get our proper summer back by then.

My next one is in about 12 hours... it had so better not be wet...

post festival mood swings

Aside from the bruises (falling) aches (dancing) head mush zombiness (paracetamol?) and everything sounds like techno - eg bog flushing, cars, trains etc

Discovered I had parked my mates car in the wrong car park on thursday, oops, only £125 PER FUCKING DAY to get the clamp off!

Glade total £300?
Parking in the wrong place £500

Thanks for the comfort responses and words of wisdom ppl. I've done a bit of reading up on the 'headshock' thing. Apparently the body is unable to move consciously when we are in the land of nod (it's a survival thing apparently). But as we're nodding off, parts of our brain can still be awake. So we are consciously aware of ouselves and feel 'awake' but the body thinks it's asleep. It's at this point we have 'sleep paralysis'. You are awake in your head, but you can't move your body. Needless to say this feels wrong and we get a bit of a panic coming on - bring on the adrenaline and feelings of impending doom. You finally wake up fully, feel frightened and a bit shitty and kind of don't want to nod off again in case it happens again - which often it does.

The best I can advise is just go with it. If and when it occurs, once you are awake, just remind yourself that you are ok, it's just the post-party process of getting back on track.

Hope that helps.

thanks for all the headshock advice, never had it before in years of partying...trust glade to bring it on. good to know not the only one...off to buy a few million bananas...

pinkissimo wrote:......However, something REALLY REALLY good has come out of Glade and I'm on top of the world right now

Ha! I've got a similar feeling, but probably for COMPLETELY different reasons. Top banana though!

~Pev

Blah, always get post festival sadness and that was even before I started on the class A's. These days no matter how many 5-HTP and bananas you eat an eighth of Mandy aint gonna just go...



Plus I'm pretty sure that's my last festy/holiday of the "summer". I wanna be back at Glade/Sonar/Bloc/anywhere apart from here doing the late shift at work...