What would you do if you wake up in the middle of the night and realize "I've got it all wrong!"

Answer 1

depends on what you think you 'got wrong'!
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Answer 2

That's why I'm so sleepy.

I cannot be completely convinced of anything because I am immediately skeptical of the thing I just convinced myself of. It really bugs the crap out of me!

edit:
I'm sort of exaggerating a bit here, but to an extent I am never so full of my own BS that I am not capable of debating myself with the possibility that I may have it wrong. I think that is quite healthy actually. How do you ever grow if you are so convinced that you are right that you never challenge your own beliefs and try to engage other ideas and thoughts? We'd still be believing the world was flat if there weren't people who challenged accepted knowledge. (Perhaps even challenged themselves.) Not everything in life makes sense even in the year 2007. We don't have all the answers.
That's why we have YA! hehe

Answer 3

It depends. If I have just finished a paper and realized that one sentence was faulty and I have to (horrors) do it all over again- then I get up , drag my cursing self back into the computer and type up another one until the morning.
Most of the time however, I do not get nightmares or momentous revelations like that in the middle of the night.

If it happens to you and you cannot do anything about it, write it down and deal with it the next day.

Answer 4

I would take it as a chance, write down, what is all I got wrong, so not to forget it, and write down also the spontaneous solutions I would have, in a few words. Then have a warm tea with lots of sugar and go back to sleep. In the morning, I would read it all again, and then either laugh out loud, or work out some of the solutions proposed.

Answer 5

Firstly, i will take a lot of water to relax myself and think deeply what caused me all wrong. I will reexamine the details that have to be improved. If i got wrong then the best thing to do is accept it for to err is human. Instead do my best the next time in order not to experience the same. Our life is as normal if we encounter things as that. Life for us was not given in a silver spoon. We hafe to face realities and move on to the next level but with caution.

Thank you for the question,

Answer 6

well, i would feel totally discomfitted and troubled, and i'd get up and just move about. when i get uneasy i always have this nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach and my mind races with all kinds of imaginations. but usually, i experience this kind of thing first thing in the morning right after i woke up and open my eyes and i try to waken my sleeping mind. after this terrible dissonace i go about finding answers and solutions which is more terrible because the more i think of it, the more elusive it gets and the more uneasy i get. when 'i've got it all wrong' , i just stop for a while and think where 'i've got it wrong' and where 'i'm going to get it right'. =)

Answer 7

Get up,make a cup of tea (well, I am English, after all) then decide I can't do much about it at this time of night and go back to bed.

It always works for me.

Answer 8

That won't happen to me in this lifetime. I do not have it all wrong, and I will not at any point believe that I do.

BTW, how could anybody sane believe he or she has it ALL wrong? What about the correctness of that belief, then? It's not psychologically rational, or philosophically for that matter.

Answer 9

Go back to bed and try to figure out "what's the correct solution" in my sleep... You never know, while sleeping, other options may present themselves and you could possibly dream of a resolution... It could happen!

Answer 10

I believe these times are called epiphanies and are to be treasured for the mind expansion they show.