Originally posted by N Herts EagleI'd think you'd close the windows and lock it if you and your friends know that you sleepwalk. Pretty dumb way to die.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/28/nsleep28.xml
Jessie Glibert teenage chess star far to young an age to die....with the world before you ..condolences to her family
Originally posted by General PutzerThe mind is very strange at times. Sleepwalkers can have total recall of places in their minds like camera snapshots in 3d. It seems very real to them. They might see in complete detail them being inside a casino able to see and hear every word and expression on the faces of people. To them it is not like a dream, it is like reality. If someone says you can't dream in color, think again. The thing is with most sleepwalkers it doesn't happen often enough to cause them enough concern to take the precausions they probably should. I have had about three or four known sleepwalking events in my life and I am here to tell you it is a strange feeling to think you are in one place to find out if you are woke up to be somewhere else. You can't imagine unless you have experianced it, just how real it can be.
Or at least sleep on the first floor, rather than the 18th.
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Originally posted by cashthetrashI read that some people had attempted to drive trains etc while sleepwalking. A girl also climbed a crane once, about a year ago, in London somewhere. They found her 150ft up, curled up asleep on a platform.
The mind is very strange at times. Sleepwalkers can have total recall of places in their minds like camera snapshots in 3d. It seems very real to them. They might see in complete detail them being inside a casino able to see and hear every word and expression on the faces of people. To them it is not like a dream, it is like reality. If someone says you be somewhere else. You can't imagine unless you have experianced it, just how real it can be.
But sad news I agree.
Originally posted by Nordlysit just looks like she was pushed too far too soon and too fast... i mean, at the top level there is a lot of pressure. some can handle it-kasparov is a prime example. others, well, can't. a certain robert james fisher being a rather famous example...
The story sounds somewhat differently here: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3258
But either way it's very sad.
i remember reading somewhere about how josh Waitzkin told a pupils parents that he would not teach him chess any more. apparently this child was a very promising player (indeed, the most promising he'd ever tought), but he just couldn't hack the pressure...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5226444.stm
There appears to be a lot more to this story than meets the eye. I believe a person is innocent until proved guilty, but there seems to be a whole lot of charges there. Either way, Jessie's life must have been hellish in recent months. Sleepwalking is only one of the possible causes of death.
What really hit home is how young she was and how much more in life there could have been for her. Inside and outside of chess.