What keeps you up at night?

ShrimpShady

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It always saddens me how much of human history is lost because our ancestors didn't lock in and invent writing sooner. I find myself grieving over the fact that we'll never conclusively know how early Homo sapiens and other human ancestors lived. What did they really think about their cave paintings? Were they made for entertainment or as a teaching tool, or maybe something deeper? What about their oral stories, were they actually any good? Did they have roast threads back then too? Why didn't they paint faces? You'd think we'd have found a Neanderthal soyjak by now.

These are the questions that plague my mind when the lights are out. How about you?

Also there's a ferret living in my ceiling that scuttles around late at night and it keeps me up too.
 

JayMark

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I have nightmares about Ronald McDonald, the Burger King, Wendy, and Sponge Bob chasing me with steak knives in the form of animated cave paintings.
 

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It always saddens me how much of human history is lost because our ancestors didn't lock in and invent writing sooner. I find myself grieving over the fact that we'll never conclusively know how early Homo sapiens and other human ancestors lived. What did they really think about their cave paintings? Were they made for entertainment or as a teaching tool, or maybe something deeper? What about their oral stories, were they actually any good? Did they have roast threads back then too? Why didn't they paint faces? You'd think we'd have found a Neanderthal soyjak by now.

These are the questions that plague my mind when the lights are out. How about you?

Also there's a ferret living in my ceiling that scuttles around late at night and it keeps me up too.
Speaking of cave paintings, look what I found a year ago. Hehehe

rock hard on a hard rock.jpeg
 

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It is freeing to worry at night without consequence. I always think of the forest by my old family house. I used to go there when I couldn't sleep.
 

ShrimpShady

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Life, the universe and everything inbetween. But mostly its just me reading a book.
That's a lot to think about. Make sure your brain cools down with light thinking to prevent soreness and cramps.

I have nightmares about Ronald McDonald, the Burger King, Wendy, and Sponge Bob chasing me with steak knives in the form of animated cave paintings.
The corporations are testing their dream ad technology on you. Wake up.

The manga/anime series, the Nirvana album, or the cleaning product?
 

Alski

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That's a lot to think about. Make sure your brain cools down with light thinking to prevent soreness and cramps.
So long as im not thinking about the time near the start of our universe it comes with inbuilt cooling.
 

Representing_Tromba

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I am putting off writing because I need to edit but I hate editing so I'm procrastinating that as per usual. It keeps me up at night thinking about how I've wasted the day away but am too tired from the work I had to do to get up and edit.
 

ShrimpShady

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Speaking of cave paintings, look what I found a year ago. Hehehe

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They even got eggplant-figured baddies back then. Beauty standards have always been crazy.

It is freeing to worry at night without consequence. I always think of the forest by my old family house. I used to go there when I couldn't sleep.
I wish I had a forest near my house. I'd die under mysterious circumstances so hard.

But in all seriousness, that sounds dope. Nature just rocks. Birdsongs make people happier.

I am putting off writing because I need to edit but I hate editing so I'm procrastinating that as per usual. It keeps me up at night thinking about how I've wasted the day away but am too tired from the work I had to do to get up and edit.
omg twinsss
 

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That seems like an interesting thing to think about. My case is unfortunately mundane, troubling stuff. University, procrastination, future, job, life—stupid thoughts to lose sleep over.
 

JayMark

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Literally: My sibling, blasts fortnite and obnoxious music videos late at night. Full on delinquent, won't concede.
Psychologically: realizing that I'm a waste of space, and i've lost the opportunities to pursue any of my dreams. I've become old.
aquitaine-kittens.jpg

Inside you there are five kittens. And all of them are awesome.

How do I know?

I live in your walls.
 

ShrimpShady

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That seems like an interesting thing to think about. My case is unfortunately mundane, troubling stuff. University, procrastination, future, job, life—stupid thoughts to lose sleep over.
Literally: My sibling, blasts fortnite and obnoxious music videos late at night. Full on delinquent, won't concede.
Psychologically: realizing that I'm a waste of space, and i've lost the opportunities to pursue any of my dreams. I've become old.
We're all gonna make it fellas, one day at a time :blobthumbsup:
 

AmbreaTaddy

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When I was young, I was called a genius prodigy, so I never put in any work, I just grabbed the results. But as I got older, I saw all the people that were once worse than me become way better, because they were putting in effort. I spent a long time, way too much, being angry and sad because I had fell off. I now am at an age where I should have already reached stability, but instead I have to learn how to put effort into everything I do, and reach the goals I had set for myself when I was younger.

Existential dread of 'I could have been the best if I had started working earlier, and now I have to start from the bottom. I ruined everything'.

Yay !
 

Theresaisnotmenhera

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When I was young, I was called a genius prodigy, so I never put in any work, I just grabbed the results. But as I got older, I saw all the people that were once worse than me become way better, because they were putting in effort. I spent a long time, way too much, being angry and sad because I had fell off. I now am at an age where I should have already reached stability, but instead I have to learn how to put effort into everything I do, and reach the goals I had set for myself when I was younger.

Existential dread of 'I could have been the best if I had started working earlier, and now I have to start from the bottom. I ruined everything'.

Yay !
 
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