Posted on 05/31/2022 3:38:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Brian May has revealed a ‘weird’ condition that causes him to keep falling asleep suddenly, months after contracting Covid.
The Queen star fell ill with the virus in December after a birthday lunch with friends, and he has now said he has been dealing with a ‘strange’ condition that causes him to nod off all of a sudden.
The rock icon, 74, told the How Do You Cope?… with Elis and John podcast: ‘I have a strange persisting condition, I think from the Covid, which are kind of brown-outs…
‘Generally, I’m OK, I’m not tired all the time, but I’ll get to a certain point in the day where something inside my head goes, ‘You have to sleep now. You don’t care about any of this, go to sleep – who cares?’
‘It’s an almost irresistible call and I just go out like a light. It’s really weird.’
The guitarist admitted he was concerned about the way the condition could impact his life on tour.
He added: ‘It’s an almost irresistible call and I just go out like a light. It’s really weird.
‘I just hope it doesn’t happen in the middle of a gig, because it’s going to be very embarrassing – “Just hang on for half an hour while I have a nap, guys – then we’ll do We Are The Champions.”
Brian May May battled Covid for more than a week in December (Picture: Brian May/Instagram) ‘But I feel good, I don’t know if it’s changed me.’
May originally told his fans that he caught Covid just before Christmas last year by sharing a picture of his test result on Instagram.
He wrote at the time: ‘Yep. The shocking day finally came for me. The dreaded double red line.
‘And yes – definitely NO sympathy please – it has been a truly horrible few days, but I’m OK. And I will tell the tale.
‘PLEASE take extra care out there, good folks. This thing is incredibly transmissible. You really do NOT want it messing up YOUR Christmas. (sic).’
While it is not known what is particularly afflicting the Queen rocker, some people have reported suffering the effects of Covid for weeks and sometimes months after being infected.
Long Covid can cause some sufferers a range of debilitating symptoms, including fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and amnesia.
However, experts do not yet know why some people develop Long Covid while others won’t.
During the interview, May also discussed the impact of his father dying the same year as his Queen bandmate Freddie Mercury, in 1991.
He explained that he still to this day, over 30 years on, cannot celebrate the anniversary of Mercury’s death as millions of fans do every year, because it’s too difficult for him.
Asked about how he dealt with both the loss of his dad as well as Mercury, and having to be the public face of the Queen frontman’s death, May said: ‘It was very hard, hard to get perspectives. It was obviously massively important for me to lose my dad and very difficult to come to terms with, but it was a private thing.
‘Losing Freddie was like losing a brother, but yes it had the glare of public knowledge to go along with it, and everybody was reinforcing because Freddie was so visible to everyone and so well-loved by everyone, so we were kind of dragged into a perpetual wheel which still goes on, of kind of having to look at the loss of Freddie in a public way, and that’s not easy.
‘That’s why I tend to hide away on the anniversary of his death – people almost celebrate the day of Freddie’s death – but I don’t want to and I don’t feel I can.’
He added: ‘I’ll celebrate his birthday, I’ll celebrate the day we first got together, but the day of losing him will never be something I can put straight in my head, there was just nothing good about it.
‘There’s no coming to terms because I didn’t want it.’
Mercury died at the age of 45 on November 24 in 1991 of bronchial pneumonia, which resulted from Aids.
Some time the ground coffee container smells like either canned tuna or cat litter.
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Weird. It’s almost like the neural memories for identifying aromas has been “reprogrammed”. Who knows, man. The mind is incredibly complex and we have just barely begun to understand it.
I’m reminded of experiments done back in the 1950’s where test subjects wore glasses which inverted the image. Initially, they could not operate. Then they adjusted. Where things got really interesting is when the glasses were removed, the subjects were then again disoriented for a time. It’s as if the brain is constantly rewiring itself to perceived inputs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUVpBJalNQ
Maybe he’s at the dreamer’s ball.
CC
Sleep apnea?
At least it wasn’t a sheer heart attack.
About 2 months after being hospitalized with Covid pneumonia I began having episodes like being close to a newly lit cigarette and that would cause a bit of a problem with breathing. If I took deeper breaths using my diaphragm it would go away. About 3 months later it has disappeared. It was weird, I did query the internet and saw that other people had similar issues, more smelled things like sewage and cigarettes were toward the bottom of the list. I haven’t been vaxed so that was not the cause.
There are three original Queen members remaining. Brian is the only one who still seeks to dialogue with the public on a regular basis.
Then you have John Deacon, the “quiet” Queen member, who retreated to private life after lead singer Freddie Mercury died, and wants nothing to do with the public or with performing anymore.
Interesting that such different personalities could have worked together at one time to create one of the very best Rock and Rock Opera Bands ever. Diversity in a good way.
The Who are the epitome of a diverse band. That was the whole inspiration for Quadrophenia, because all four members had completely different personalities.
I had covid- it was no worse than any other cold I’ve had
Paul McCartney and Ringo Star are both touring this summer.
Paul sold out Fenway Park. Ringo goes to smaller venues with his all star band.
There is a reason older folks like to take naps.
Hopefully it isnt Covid induced narcolepsy.
Same thing for me mild cold. I have had actual cold viruses since then that were much worse.
For the Mrs, she was sick for 10 days. She had hair loss for the following six months. Neither of us are vaxed.
Don’t ALL men do this? I sit next to them on airplanes all the time.
Sounds like Narcolepsy except in Biden’s case.
My daughter same thing
But she has the bow tie face rash so they fear lupus
Maybe he so old he keeps forgetting he’s been drinking all day.
Anyway, it's mighty bizarre to see all these vaccinated people coming down with COVID and then stating that they are happy they took the vaccine as it would have been "worse" otherwise.
How do they know that and how do they know they even would have gotten COVID if they weren't vaccinated in the first place?
hmmm.... maybe Brian will shorten his guitar solos..... No more bathroom breaks for the crew!
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