Hehe, *that* is me :D


A situation of my daily life. My imagination plays tricks on me - again. Lecture physiology. Called "Schlaf und Arousal". My mind goes: Arousal???!
What was your first thought hearing "Sleep and Arousal"?

If you had an innocent idea of waking up one lazy morning after a good night's sleep, congratulations, you have a mind more proper than mine!
My associations are a l w a y s dirty if there is a possibility of seeing a double meaning. Schlaf equals Sleep, so it would have been logical for any decent person to see immediatly that the waking process is meant.
But according to Ultralingua "Arousal" translates to "Erregung, Erweckung" (also to sexual excitement, not only to pure waking).
Not enough, the guy besides me asked if I knew what it meant, and I blurted out "You could have heard of 'sexual arousal'? Does that give you an idea?". It took me minutes to come up with the proper term, can you believe it? Well, but on the other hand, especially for a male the sexual arousal has indeed some component that you could call a 'wakening', so I wasn't too wrong. Just a little, umh, mislead, eh he he...?

Posted: Fr - Mai 7, 2004 at 03:00 Uhr      

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