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==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
 
:[Woozy Cueball walks and speaks.]
 
:[Woozy Cueball walks and speaks.]
Cueball: The sleep deprivation madness worsens.
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:Cueball: The sleep deprivation madness worsens.
  
[Cueball examines hands.]
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:[Cueball examines hands.]
Cueball: Things seem unreal. Am I even awake? Maybe I'm dreaming.
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:Cueball: Things seem unreal. Am I even awake? Maybe I'm dreaming.
  
[Cueball approaches a tree with a squirrel on it.]
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:[Cueball approaches a tree with a squirrel on it.]
Cueball: I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating this tree.
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:Cueball: I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating this tree.
  
Cueball: But what if I'm hallucinating that I'm hallucinating, and I'm actually totally sane?
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:Cueball: But what if I'm hallucinating that I'm hallucinating, and I'm actually totally sane?
Squirrel: Listen.
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:Squirrel: Listen.
Squirrel: I wouldn't worry about that.
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:Squirrel: I wouldn't worry about that.
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

Revision as of 05:06, 26 March 2013

Still No Sleep
I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?
Title text: I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?

Explanation

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Lack of sleep causes hallucinations different from insanity - insane people find it very difficult or impossible to distinguish between a hallucination and reality because the part of their brain that checks for normality in a situation is also broken. Level-1 sleep hallucinations do not make it through this (for lack of a better term) "sanity filter" in a sane human being.

Transcript

[Woozy Cueball walks and speaks.]
Cueball: The sleep deprivation madness worsens.
[Cueball examines hands.]
Cueball: Things seem unreal. Am I even awake? Maybe I'm dreaming.
[Cueball approaches a tree with a squirrel on it.]
Cueball: I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating this tree.
Cueball: But what if I'm hallucinating that I'm hallucinating, and I'm actually totally sane?
Squirrel: Listen.
Squirrel: I wouldn't worry about that.


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Discussion

I think the squirrel did not mean not to worry about his hallucination. The squirrel's comment is a joke that cueball should not consider the possibility that he is totally sane. He is not sane and this is obvious even to the hallucinated squirrel. 141.101.97.225 11:46, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

What if the squirrel is the one hallucinating? 173.245.54.151 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I believe that the squirrel was telling him not to worry about "that" in particular, and that he has *bigger* problems. 162.158.79.71 00:39, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

There might be a missed joke in the title text: squirrels are "nuts" and are thus not experts on mental health. 162.158.238.223 01:05, 30 May 2023 (UTC)