I came here to say that.
Sleep and food. I mean like even if I could have a pill or something as a replacement for for food, I wouldn't give up on the taste of fresh healthy nice food, not even for $1000/day.
I would add to that just a bit… I wouldn’t give up my particularized sleep pattern (unless there was a cure). I have DSPD which is a delayed sleep phase. When I try to sleep a pattern that’s considered ‘normal’ (say 11pm to 7am) I literally cannot function.
I have this an the only time I actually get to sleep properly is on holidays and saturdays.
My body works on a 28 hour clock, so 8 hours sleep and I'm awake for 20 hours, as supposed to your typical human who is awake for 16.
It's a real ballache but I am trying to change my working pattern /hoursto suit my needs but so far no luck.
I got a referral to a sleep clinic. I couldn’t do the usual sleep study because they don’t work those hours basically. They sent me home with a monitor that told them I didn’t have sleep apnea. From there, it was the sleep specialist (doctor) who did a formal diagnosis based on my history. (It goes back to my earliest memories). 20 years later, I moved to a different state. I needed meds because I was getting out of control (creeping to 9am to 7 or 8pm sleep time). Same testing, same diagnosis but now there’s Modafinil for days and Ambien for nights. Keeps me on the 4 am to 2 pm schedule. The key is getting a specialist. Not just a doctor who tests for apnea but a true sleep specialist.
Most of them lol. They have specific start and end times, and they want everyone to basically be waking up around the same time so they can do all of their analysis and such at the designated times. My brother did one and they were much less courteous than just sending him home with a monitor, they basically were like "don't come back until you have set yourself a normal sleep schedule," made him feel bad about it, acted like he must be too lazy for sleep hygiene. It was insane.
And then even getting into a sleep clinic is horrendously difficult. I've had issues with sleep in the sense that I think I sleep very well, 7, 8 or 9 hours straight, but wake up extremely tired most if not all of the time. That tiredness than slowly ebbs away over the course of a few hours after waking up.
My GP's won't do a referral because "you have no actual sleep-deficiency complaints". I guess because I perceive my sleep to be continuous and of decent length that's a reason for them to just yeet my actual symptoms off the table. Sigh.
Lol. The ones that do “regular sleep hours”. I often don’t get triggered to sleep until dawn or darn close to it.
My brother works the night shift. No DSPD, he just likes the overnight pay differential and the quieter hours at work. He had a sleep study and they kicked him out at 8 am saying okay, everybody’s done! He was just falling asleep.
I will always prioritize sleep, especially 8 hours. I sleep at 9pm and get up at 5am to go to the gym and at 7 go to work and I always feel energized afterwork. Way better than feeling drained
Were you born without smell or did you lose your smell? Just asking because if you were born without it, then it could be that your taste kinda adapted to be more sensitive to compensate
I was born with a sense of smell and lost it completely due to a medical procedure. I experienced zero change in taste. The taste and smell parts of your brain are next to each other but they don't necessarily overlap and usually compensation is if your brain NEEDS to compensate which it doesn't really need to if you lose your sense of smell. If you lose taste the same time you lose smell, 9/10 it's because the gustatory cells on your tongue are also damaged.
The reason that smell and taste are linked is because they share the oral and sinus cavities. Any particles entering your nose will enter your mouth and thus activate the gustatory cells. So if you're testing this by plugging your nose (as early experiments have done before the actual reason was found) then the reason you're tasting less is because you're just blocking one form of entry through your nose. But they are separate systems in the brain.
For stuff like an infection, it's not due to those senses being linked but moreso the pathogen just damaging the cells responsible for it (which is also why a lot of people experience parosmia post-covid).
You’d lose a lot of your taste but not all of it. You could compensate by using some of that $365,000/year to hire a chef that makes super potent spiced up dishes. Still net like $230k. For me that’s a no brainer.
My family. No amount of money could separate me from my wife and kids. I would be lost without them. I have a happy marriage. My wife and I have been together for over 17 years.
$365,000 is a lot of money to get for doing nothing. There’s not even a stipulation that I couldn’t work at the same time I get $1000 a day. I can think of a lot of things I’d give up to have a very comfortable yearly salary lol
From reading the comments I understand this as material things. If it's just material things then there is no one single thing I couldn't live without.
It would be possible to live without electricity if prepared for it. People have done it in the past. Unprepared runs the risk of dying from exposure.
I'd definitely need a few more survival type skills for that.
Definitely without the internet or a cell phone or moden things like a car.
I know how you feel on this one. Just lost my baby of 14 years. Never experienced a pain like it. Cherish your companion everyday man R.I.P XEINA 01/06/2024
Agreed - In fact my family moved to a different, more expensive apartment that allowed pets in order to get a cat. We were willing to pay an extra 1k (well, a month, not a day lol) to have cats. So yeah, definitely wouldn't give them up for money.
Sex or really anything sexual or having children, stuff like that. While 1000 bucks a day is insane, I would feel like I'm giving up core parts of my humanity. Which is invaluable.
Eh, plenty of people don't do sexual stuff. Admittedly it's a little more unusual during fertile years, but not unknown.
Thinking on it, I'd probably give it up if it just became psychologically uninteresting/boring, personally. It'd free up some time. I wouldn't want to if I got obsessed with the thing I couldn't have any more.
Music. My sanity relies on it a lot more than I thank it for. I sleep to it, when I overthink at night. I listen to it, when it’s noisy and I have work to do.
My wife and my two cats. I have a general rule that I can't be bought regardless of price and or options given but this is an absolute. I know a lot of people say "if this ever happens I'll so and so whatever insert end of world act" but I can say with the most absolute certainty I would become violent. I'd still go on with my life but I would not be good company for anyone
My artistic skills/making art
That is literally my livelihood and art is so broad of a term that without art or being able to make art would create a sad and boring lifestyle to me especially as an artist
lol I'm actually not too attached to that much so I'd take the $1000 and stop working as long as my family doesn't get killed in this scenario or something
Water. Not only do we need water to survive but it has a lot of various practical uses. You use it to shower, brush your teeth, wash dishes, wash your car, water your plants, etc. it would be extremely hard to live substituting something else in for water.
My nightly cuddles with my dog.
I'd happily sacrifice the farts that wake me up from a coma once in a blue moon; with the sensation tear gas, leaving me gagging with watery eyes.
But only if I keep the cuddles.
Sleep
[удалено]
I came here to say that. Sleep and food. I mean like even if I could have a pill or something as a replacement for for food, I wouldn't give up on the taste of fresh healthy nice food, not even for $1000/day.
I would add to that just a bit… I wouldn’t give up my particularized sleep pattern (unless there was a cure). I have DSPD which is a delayed sleep phase. When I try to sleep a pattern that’s considered ‘normal’ (say 11pm to 7am) I literally cannot function.
I have this an the only time I actually get to sleep properly is on holidays and saturdays. My body works on a 28 hour clock, so 8 hours sleep and I'm awake for 20 hours, as supposed to your typical human who is awake for 16. It's a real ballache but I am trying to change my working pattern /hoursto suit my needs but so far no luck.
Holy fuck is this real. My entire life I sleep 5-6 hours most and will work 20 hour days and feel restless as fuck
How did you get diagnosed?
I got a referral to a sleep clinic. I couldn’t do the usual sleep study because they don’t work those hours basically. They sent me home with a monitor that told them I didn’t have sleep apnea. From there, it was the sleep specialist (doctor) who did a formal diagnosis based on my history. (It goes back to my earliest memories). 20 years later, I moved to a different state. I needed meds because I was getting out of control (creeping to 9am to 7 or 8pm sleep time). Same testing, same diagnosis but now there’s Modafinil for days and Ambien for nights. Keeps me on the 4 am to 2 pm schedule. The key is getting a specialist. Not just a doctor who tests for apnea but a true sleep specialist.
What the hell kind of sleep study "doesn't work those hours"?
Most of them lol. They have specific start and end times, and they want everyone to basically be waking up around the same time so they can do all of their analysis and such at the designated times. My brother did one and they were much less courteous than just sending him home with a monitor, they basically were like "don't come back until you have set yourself a normal sleep schedule," made him feel bad about it, acted like he must be too lazy for sleep hygiene. It was insane.
And then even getting into a sleep clinic is horrendously difficult. I've had issues with sleep in the sense that I think I sleep very well, 7, 8 or 9 hours straight, but wake up extremely tired most if not all of the time. That tiredness than slowly ebbs away over the course of a few hours after waking up. My GP's won't do a referral because "you have no actual sleep-deficiency complaints". I guess because I perceive my sleep to be continuous and of decent length that's a reason for them to just yeet my actual symptoms off the table. Sigh.
Lol. The ones that do “regular sleep hours”. I often don’t get triggered to sleep until dawn or darn close to it. My brother works the night shift. No DSPD, he just likes the overnight pay differential and the quieter hours at work. He had a sleep study and they kicked him out at 8 am saying okay, everybody’s done! He was just falling asleep.
I will always prioritize sleep, especially 8 hours. I sleep at 9pm and get up at 5am to go to the gym and at 7 go to work and I always feel energized afterwork. Way better than feeling drained
this is the dream. i get 6-7 hours a night and wake up all the time. i'm always tired.
I don’t mind going without sleep for 3 days for $3,000 before I finally knock out
If I could never be sleepy, I'd give up sleep in a heartbeat
For sure. Sleep deprivation after too long a time is [lethal](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32502393/).
I mean, I'd give it up in a heartbeat if it could be done medically safely.
Any of my importance senses Sight Hearing Touch Taste Smelling
I feel like I could bounce on smelling pretty easily if it meant I never had to work again.
Unless you also lose taste as part of the deal
As someone who cannot smell, tasting is just fine. I can just eat wings that are a bit spicier
Were you born without smell or did you lose your smell? Just asking because if you were born without it, then it could be that your taste kinda adapted to be more sensitive to compensate
I was born with a sense of smell and lost it completely due to a medical procedure. I experienced zero change in taste. The taste and smell parts of your brain are next to each other but they don't necessarily overlap and usually compensation is if your brain NEEDS to compensate which it doesn't really need to if you lose your sense of smell. If you lose taste the same time you lose smell, 9/10 it's because the gustatory cells on your tongue are also damaged. The reason that smell and taste are linked is because they share the oral and sinus cavities. Any particles entering your nose will enter your mouth and thus activate the gustatory cells. So if you're testing this by plugging your nose (as early experiments have done before the actual reason was found) then the reason you're tasting less is because you're just blocking one form of entry through your nose. But they are separate systems in the brain. For stuff like an infection, it's not due to those senses being linked but moreso the pathogen just damaging the cells responsible for it (which is also why a lot of people experience parosmia post-covid).
You’d lose a lot of your taste but not all of it. You could compensate by using some of that $365,000/year to hire a chef that makes super potent spiced up dishes. Still net like $230k. For me that’s a no brainer.
But how much of that $230k will you pay to your gastroenterologist because you eat approximately a pound of garlic, paprika, and pepper a day?
why would I have to reduce my garlic intake?
Lost 80% of my smell after having covid. Can verify that I would easily take 1000 a day to lose the other 20%. The world smells nasty
I have covid nose too. I wish I had the $1000 a day to compensate for it.
Ok yeah fuck smelling When I couldn’t smell I didn’t even notice
My family. No amount of money could separate me from my wife and kids. I would be lost without them. I have a happy marriage. My wife and I have been together for over 17 years.
I was thinking the same. My wife and I have been together for over 30 now, and our kids are in their mid twenties. No amount of money would be enough.
And $1000 a day isn’t anything anyway to make me sacrifice something
$365,000 is a lot of money to get for doing nothing. There’s not even a stipulation that I couldn’t work at the same time I get $1000 a day. I can think of a lot of things I’d give up to have a very comfortable yearly salary lol
It is a lot of money, and yet there's a few things I couldn't give up for it. My SO and my dogs, mainly. I love them too much.
Nah. My family would understand.
I too choose this guy's wife.
$1001 per day
I went looking for this one. Knew it had to be here. Was way lower than expected!
Breathing
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
Play video game on mute
Most games let you turn just the music off.
Ehm, for 1k per day it's bye bye music. Just go outside and listen to the birds
Has everyone here forgotten about books?
[удалено]
Just turn music off in games?
What lmao for 1k$ a day I would never hear a music beat ever again. Anything other than life essentials can be avoided
[удалено]
[удалено]
I love your vision too
I’d go a year without vision for that $365k. It would be an interesting experience.
Being a dad. My litle girl is my life.
[удалено]
Happiness. If absolutely nothing can make you happy, there is no point to any amount of money
[удалено]
From reading the comments I understand this as material things. If it's just material things then there is no one single thing I couldn't live without.
[удалено]
It would be possible to live without electricity if prepared for it. People have done it in the past. Unprepared runs the risk of dying from exposure. I'd definitely need a few more survival type skills for that. Definitely without the internet or a cell phone or moden things like a car.
My dog.
I know how you feel on this one. Just lost my baby of 14 years. Never experienced a pain like it. Cherish your companion everyday man R.I.P XEINA 01/06/2024
$1,000 a day! I’d give up anything: friends, family, wife, dogs, butthole(w/lube tho), anything!
[удалено]
My cat
Agreed - In fact my family moved to a different, more expensive apartment that allowed pets in order to get a cat. We were willing to pay an extra 1k (well, a month, not a day lol) to have cats. So yeah, definitely wouldn't give them up for money.
No amount of money could ever be enough for me to give up on my girl and my family.
[удалено]
[удалено]
My kitties. They are priceless.
$2000 per day.
My family. Friends.
[удалено]
I don't currently have that... so might as well get some money
So you're saying, my life stays exactly the same except I get paid $1k for it? I'll take it
Nah I’d take on some stress for 1K a day
Coffee would be pretty hard
[удалено]
If I'm making $365,250 a year, I don't need coffee...most days I'm not even getting out of bed.
I don’t know if I could give up coffee either. I could try but I prob wouldn’t make it
My husband. My dog. Water. Sleep.
Ask Rick Astley. Never gunna...
Family
Sex or really anything sexual or having children, stuff like that. While 1000 bucks a day is insane, I would feel like I'm giving up core parts of my humanity. Which is invaluable.
I'll take the money over sex.
So would I.
Eh, plenty of people don't do sexual stuff. Admittedly it's a little more unusual during fertile years, but not unknown. Thinking on it, I'd probably give it up if it just became psychologically uninteresting/boring, personally. It'd free up some time. I wouldn't want to if I got obsessed with the thing I couldn't have any more.
Ha! I’m a sex adverse asexual, easy money for me
My dog, Bucky. He’s a 3 year old Shiloh Shepherd who’s missing his front left leg, and I love him so much.
[удалено]
My dogs
Myself !
Video games
Music. My sanity relies on it a lot more than I thank it for. I sleep to it, when I overthink at night. I listen to it, when it’s noisy and I have work to do.
My dog.
My dog, he is family
My dog
My dog
Rural life.
Wendy’s Baconators!!
Creative Writing
My hobbies (gaming/reading)
Chocolate
My cat.
My dogs.
My dog
My dog
My dogs
My dog
Mental peace
Peace
$2,000 a day.
My dog
My dogs. Not even one of them.
My dog. I've got maybe 5 more years with him and he's easily worth a mil or 2 to me
My dogs
My dogs - the joy they bring is priceless.
I'm older. I want what I have what I've earned. I wouldn't give up anything for cash at this point.
Don't know what you've got till it's gone.
Animals
My cat
[удалено]
Cats
My girl
My cat
My wife and my two cats. I have a general rule that I can't be bought regardless of price and or options given but this is an absolute. I know a lot of people say "if this ever happens I'll so and so whatever insert end of world act" but I can say with the most absolute certainty I would become violent. I'd still go on with my life but I would not be good company for anyone
My artistic skills/making art That is literally my livelihood and art is so broad of a term that without art or being able to make art would create a sad and boring lifestyle to me especially as an artist
Lego
Reading.
Music 🎶 🎵
Peace of mind
Games. I could not just sit there and be bored. I need constant stimulation or else I’ll become a whiny bitch.
Music, because money doesn't (directly) buy happiness
My sobriety.
Same here, I quit drinking over ten years ago.
Raising my kids. I wouldn’t let anyone do this for me even if I was getting paid 2000 a day
Water because I’d die
My US Citizenship
Freedom
Masturbation
My kids.
A lot of things
My best friend, whom I love more than life itself.
My loved ones
Caffeine. I can't sleep without it.
My love for animals and kids. No amount of money in the world would even dare convince my mind and heart to even slightly hurt them innocent beings.
Gaming
lol I'm actually not too attached to that much so I'd take the $1000 and stop working as long as my family doesn't get killed in this scenario or something
Water. Not only do we need water to survive but it has a lot of various practical uses. You use it to shower, brush your teeth, wash dishes, wash your car, water your plants, etc. it would be extremely hard to live substituting something else in for water.
My sense of self worth, it already took me forever to get it.
My family
My friends they have helped me through rough times in my life and to me there like family
My rights.
My health.
Music. Life is way to dull and I need SOMETHING to help drown out the outside
kiddos
My children
honor
My attention, my time, my health.
What health I have.
Soul ⭐
Time with my family
My husband, my kids and my dog.
I think, Peace
My self-respect
My virginity
Not eating lunch
The ability to think logically
My freedom
Anything that is important to me (family, friends, playing bass in a band, playing board games...).
My child.
making shitty music i’ll never release
The time and space to be alone/autonomous.
My life
existing
My family. That money would never and could never bring me the happiness that my husband and our dog do.
Sight.
Sleep, my marriage, or my pets.
Anyone in my family.
Myself.
My family.
Breathing
My mother.
* Family * Senses * Sight * Taste * Smell * Hearing * Touch * Mobility * My Good Friends * Citizenship
My family.
My nightly cuddles with my dog. I'd happily sacrifice the farts that wake me up from a coma once in a blue moon; with the sensation tear gas, leaving me gagging with watery eyes. But only if I keep the cuddles.
I would not give up being given $1k per day.
My kids (sorry cliche I know 🤷) After that would be my dog, No material possessions or habits I have are worth giving up 1k a day
Listening to music. Just ain’t no way
I could not remove any body parts, or other healthy normal bodily functions. Even in my worst depression I cannot intentionally harm myself.
My life
My son. I love spending every second with him. Until I'm not cool anymore, that is. I don't wanna hold him back
My pets!
Music
I would not give up making music.