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[vcestressed]

I wouldn't consider it lucid dreaming but, I've had the exact same thing!

How much time are you leaving between falling asleep and revising? When I was writing two or three essays at a time I was staying up quite late to hit my target goals for the day and then straight after I'd fall asleep. I was having incredibly restless nights and I'd wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning thinking about my essay, literally writing it in my head.

It's not really a problem, only that waking up throughout the night on a regular basis isn't good for you. You need to feel rested! I think if you're working right up until you're sleeping, having a cutoff point would be a good idea. Try and give yourself 30-60 minutes to focus on something else, whether that be reading a book, chatting with friends, or just messing about on the internet.

But the thing is, I do get proper sleep. I usually finish studying at 10ish, sleep at 11 and wake up at 6. Most of the time, its a good thing because it helps me remember everything in the morning but then there's nothing I can do to stop having these thoughts and that can make me feel like I didn't sleep at all.
@ zhen, SAME! I woke up today and I immediately understood how monoclonnal antibodies worked whereas I couldn't understand anything yesterday. Its so weird.

[patriciarose]

Thanks!
So Idk if this is a real problem but does this happen to anyone else? For the past few weeks, I've been revising a lot of content so i feel like when i sleep, my brain is revising for it too? Last night, i was thinking about some weird physics stuff at 2 am while i thought i was sleeping? Is this a real problem? My parents say its the most hilarious thing they've ever heard but would this be considered lucid dreaming?
p.s pls don't laugh.

yeah, this is a real thing. if you like it, no problem, but if not then distracting yourself before you sleep would probably alleviate it. it's like how if you're messing around with screens right before you try to sleep, your brain will be very awake for a while even if you feel exhausted. try reading maybe? or whatever else you do to unwind. (if nothing else, your english books would probably appreciate the attention haha). no idea if it's lucid dreaming though because that tends to be when you have control of a dream (?) and you realise you're dreaming, whereas your brain is just randomly in physics mode in the middle of the night and (i assume) you can't stop it.

I just counted and I have about 7 SACs between now and the end of the term. The next few weeks until the edn of the term are going to be hellish.

oh god good luck with that! are most of them in your sac week?

Wow, much savagery. Good luck for bio!!! (and everything else)

How do you cope with 5 + uni history haha? I'm barely managing with my 5 and I've heard revs, legal and HHD are super content heavy.

i'd ask you the same question honestly, english, two maths, chem and latin sound like so much work? i would probably die doing that. mine's not so bad! uni history has been pretty, idk, i don't want to easy because it does require a lot of thinking when i do work on it, but i've been doing about four hours a week for it (two for lectures, one for tute, one hour collating notes) and that's really all i need right now. cramming for the exam will be a bitch though oops. revs i find pretty easy just because i kind of love it haha, so putting work in doesn't feel like a chore, legal i should do more work for but it'll probably end up as my 7th so right now cramming the night before for 80s is enough, and health is so. much. content, oh my god, but a lot of the latter two is just common sense and that helps heaps. they're all humanities too so a lot of the skills transfer (: i'm sure yours are more work!

[Quantum44]

Thanks!
So Idk if this is a real problem but does this happen to anyone else? For the past few weeks, I've been revising a lot of content so i feel like when i sleep, my brain is revising for it too? Last night, i was thinking about some weird physics stuff at 2 am while i thought i was sleeping? Is this a real problem? My parents say its the most hilarious thing they've ever heard but would this be considered lucid dreaming?
p.s pls don't laugh.

But the thing is, I do get proper sleep. I usually finish studying at 10ish, sleep at 11 and wake up at 6. Most of the time, its a good thing because it helps me remember everything in the morning but then there's nothing I can do to stop having these thoughts and that can make me feel like I didn't sleep at all.
@ zhen, SAME! I woke up today and I immediately understood how monoclonnal antibodies worked whereas I couldn't understand anything yesterday. Its so weird.

Yes, this has happens to me as well. One day I just couldn't figure out how to do this spesh question and then when I woke up the next morning I got out of bed and just went straight to the textbook and did the question, and I was questioning whether my brain was doing work while I was asleep.

I just counted and I have about 7 SACs between now and the end of the term. The next few weeks until the end of the term are going to be hellish.

End of term 2 is always the worst haha. You're just exhausted since it's such a long term and there are so many assessments. I think it's gonna be a taste of what's to come at the start of term 4. I've for 3 English SACs in the space of 2 weeks since for some reason they only scheduled 1 in term 1 and term 3.

yeah, this is a real thing. if you like it, no problem, but if not then distracting yourself before you sleep would probably alleviate it. it's like how if you're messing around with screens right before you try to sleep, your brain will be very awake for a while even if you feel exhausted. try reading maybe? or whatever else you do to unwind. (if nothing else, your english books would probably appreciate the attention haha). no idea if it's lucid dreaming though because that tends to be when you have control of a dream (?) and you realise you're dreaming, whereas your brain is just randomly in physics mode in the middle of the night and (i assume) you can't stop it.

oh god good luck with that! are most of them in your sac week?

i'd ask you the same question honestly, english, two maths, chem and latin sound like so much work? i would probably die doing that. mine's not so bad! uni history has been pretty, idk, i don't want to easy because it does require a lot of thinking when i do work on it, but i've been doing about four hours a week for it (two for lectures, one for tute, one hour collating notes) and that's really all i need right now. cramming for the exam will be a bitch though oops. revs i find pretty easy just because i kind of love it haha, so putting work in doesn't feel like a chore, legal i should do more work for but it'll probably end up as my 7th so right now cramming the night before for 80s is enough, and health is so. much. content, oh my god, but a lot of the latter two is just common sense and that helps heaps. they're all humanities too so a lot of the skills transfer (: i'm sure yours are more work!

Yeah my subjects do require quite a lot of work, although there isn't a huge amount of content. Maths and English are skill based for the most part and chem is half maths. As for Latin there is a fair bit of memorisation of the text but it just requires consistent work over the holidays. Although I can't imagine doing a uni subject on top of 5. I assume you have to go to the actual university for the tute? But I guess it would go well with revs and obviously lit helps a lot with English. It's nice to see some humanities people around as sometimes I feel 90% of the users on AN do spesh haha.

[patriciarose]

End of term 2 is always the worst haha. You're just exhausted since it's such a long term and there are so many assessments. I think it's gonna be a taste of what's to come at the start of term 4. I've for 3 English SACs in the space of 2 weeks since for some reason they only scheduled 1 in term 1 and term 3.

Yeah my subjects do require quite a lot of work, although there isn't a huge amount of content. Maths and English are skill based for the most part and chem is half maths. As for Latin there is a fair bit of memorisation of the text but it just requires consistent work over the holidays. Although I can't imagine doing a uni subject on top of 5. I assume you have to go to the actual university for the tute? But I guess it would go well with revs and obviously lit helps a lot with English. It's nice to see some humanities people around as sometimes I feel 90% of the users on AN do spesh haha.

wow, how can you have three sacs in two weeks for english? what even are they?

oh, okay, that makes sense. they seem a lot more application-based (: latin sounds like it'd be kind of fun (and kind of hell also), are you enjoying it? i do have to go in for the tute once a week which takes most of my afternoon/evening up, ugh. but honestly, it's the second easiest (health ftw) subject i take, so i shouldn't complain! lit and english actually feel super different in regards to depth of knowledge/intepretation and even vocabulary etc, but they're much more similar than, say, methods and lit, so outside of my super concentrated subject type i suppose they are (:

i honestly think they do hahaha. super smart maths people are equally terrifying and inspiring tbh. most of my school friends are performing arts kind of people (which is honestly worse), so i figured i'd come here to experience the total opposite of it (:

[clarke54321]

25/5/17

Again this week was pretty chilled for me, with no SACs. I've just been preparing for my German SAC, which is next week. Recently I've been writing an essay per week for German, just to get into the the rhythm of writing (I think this is helping my speaking abilities?!). Given that I have multiple method SACs coming up, I've also been doing lots of past VCAA questions. My gosh how I despise Tasmania Jones 

Tomorrow is my school formal, so I'm really looking forward to this. A night off study is always a good night! 

[skylark_dr]

These past weeks have been unpleasant & depressing for me since I received an extremely terrible SAC score for economics which I believe to make my ranking plummet & two further scores that are just alright    I wasn't contented with my language analysis SAC either... This week I'll have 4 methods 1 accounting 1 economics SACs, hopefully everything goes well

[TheCommando]

Had my first methods sac
It was so bad. Why am i even doing methods it so crap.
Really am lost

[Joseph41]

^Sorry to hear about the SACs (multiple posters above).

These past weeks have been unpleasant & depressing for me since I received an extremely terrible SAC score for economics which I believe to make my ranking plummet & two further scores that are just alright    I wasn't contented with my language analysis SAC either... This week I'll have 4 methods 1 accounting 1 economics SACs, hopefully everything goes well

Brutal on the SAC schedule. How is it that you can have four Methods SACs in a single week? Hope it's all going okay.

Had my first methods sac
It was so bad. Why am i even doing methods it so crap.
Really am lost

That sucks. Always here to support you! What was so shitty about it?

[zhen]

I have a speicialist SAC on Wednesday and SAC week looming closer and closer. I hope to redeem my previous bad scores in the upcoming SACs.

[Quantum44]

I have a speicialist SAC on Wednesday and SAC week looming closer and closer. I hope to redeem my previous bad scores in the upcoming SACs.

What's your spesh SAC on?

I have SAC week approaching as well, thankfully I only have 2 SACs (both for English) in the next 3 weeks so I can regain my strength for final stretch of term 2. I'll definitely be collapsing into the term 2 holidays after all this brutality, I don't even want to think about term 3.

[zhen]

What's your spesh SAC on?

I have SAC week approaching as well, thankfully I only have 2 SACs (both for English) in the next 3 weeks so I can regain my strength for final stretch of term 2. I'll definitely be collapsing into the term 2 holidays after all this brutality, I don't even want to think about term 3.

It's a mixture of the integration on the the study design (substitution/finding volumes) and integration by parts.

[Quantum44]

It's a mixture of the integration on the the study design (substitution/finding volumes) and integration by parts.

But integration by parts isn't on the study design... I guess MHS likes to have weird and insanely hard SACs (related rates for methods). You'll be an expert on integration by the end of it though .

[TheCommando]

^Sorry to hear about the SACs (multiple posters above).

Brutal on the SAC schedule. How is it that you can have four Methods SACs in a single week? Hope it's all going okay.

That sucks. Always here to support you! What was so shitty about it?

Didnt know what i was doing. I may have failed that sac unfortunately
2 more to go for that one sac

[zhen]

Had a spesh sac today and I'm feeling really bad after it, especially because it wasn't a difficult SAC, but it heaps of long algebra, so it was easy to make mistakes. I think the 40+ dream just sailed. 

[clarke54321]

31/05/17

Today I received my Lit SAC back and was really happy with my result. English also came back the other day and was much better than expected. My teachers have pointed out some important lines of feedback, which I will focus on for the final exam.

I have a German SAC coming up this week, so am also practicing for that. Fingers crossed this is better than the last SAC. Next week, I also have two method SACs and am doing lots of questions to prepare. But my school has warned that it will be very challenging.