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 Stiphknees rated 30 months ago - Background: I go to sleep 4am-8m and wake 10am-12midday and rarely for more than 4 hours. However, I have created a business and social life which fits the pattern and strongly feel that it works for me.
However, /stumbleupon.badgerbob.com">Badgerbob sent me this link coz he worries ab...
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- booforyou rated 26 months ago
- From the page: "Homo sapiens is not a nocturnal animal; we don't have good night vision and are not especially effective in darkness. Yet in an instant on the evolutionary time scale, Edison's invention of the light bulb, and his opening of the first round-the-clock power plant on Pearl Street in Manhattan in 1882, shifted our time-and-light environment in the nocturnal direction. At the snap of a switch, a whole range of nighttime activity opened up, and today we live in a 24-hour world that is always available for work or play."
Good article on the lost art of sleeping.
You should see me at night with my book-of-the-moment. (actually, I've usually got about six or eight books on the go at once, and whichever one of the three or so I grab from beneath my pillow wins) Depending on how tired I am, I can read for anywhere from six minutes to three hours before one of my eyes closes. The other one can stay propped open indefinitely. Must be some sort of "brain-fooler".
- nez46 rated 27 months ago
- Excellent discourse on an intriguing subject. I need a nap....
- rumisong rated 27 months ago
- From the page: "There's no buzz, no crash, and it's not clear that the body tries to make up the lost sleep," reports Stickgold. "That said, all sleeping medications more or less derange your normal sleep patterns. They do not produce normal sleep." Even so, the U.S. military is sinking millions of dollars into research on modafinil, trying to see if they can keep soldiers awake and on duty--in Iraq, for example--for 80 out of 88 hours: two 40-hour shifts separated by eight hours of sleep."
- ZimZalabim rated 27 months ago
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Deep into Sleep
While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art.
[ftp] All animals sleep. Fish that need to keep swimming to breathe sleep with half their brains while the other half keeps them moving. It is uncertain whether fruit flies actually sleep ("We can't put electrodes in their brains," says White), but they seem at least to rest, because for extended periods they do not move. When researchers stopped fruit flies from resting by swatting at them, the flies took even longer rest periods. When lab technicians added caffeine to the water that the flies drank, they stayed active longer--and also rested longer after the drug wore off, evidence that the caffeine had disrupted their resting patterns.
Sleeping well helps keep you alive longer. Among humans, death from all causes is lowest among adults who get seven to eight hours of sleep nightly, and significantly higher among those who sleep less than seven or more than nine hours. ("Those who sleep more than nine hours have something wrong with them that may be causing the heavy sleep, and leads to their demise," White notes. "It is not the sleep itself that is harmful.") Sleep is essential to normal biological function. "The immune system doesn't work well if we don't sleep," says White.
"We are living in the middle of history's greatest experiment in sleep deprivation and we are all a part of that experiment. It's not inconceivable to me that we will discover that there are major social, economic, and health consequences to that experiment. Sleep deprivation doesn't have any good side effects."
Thanks to cheaphits
- kh7 rated 30 months ago
- From the page: "Many people get only five hours per night during the week and then try to catch up by logging nine hours nightly on weekends. %u201CYou can make up for acute sleep deprivation,%u201D says David P. White, McGinness professor of sleep medicine and director of the sleep disorders program at Brigham and Women%u2019s Hospital. %u201CBut we don%u2019t know what happens when people are chronically sleep-deprived over years.%u201D
%u201CWe are living in the middle of history%u2019s greatest experiment in sleep deprivation and we are all a part of that experiment,%u201D says Stickgold. %u201CIt%u2019s not inconceivable to me that we will discover that there are major social, economic, and health consequences to that experiment. Sleep deprivation doesn%u2019t have any good side effects.%u201D"
- Stiphknees rated 30 months ago
- Background: I go to sleep 4am-8m and wake 10am-12midday and rarely for more than 4 hours. However, I have created a business and social life which fits the pattern and strongly feel that it works for me.
However, /stumbleupon.badgerbob.com">Badgerbob sent me this link coz he worries about me being up too late (which is very lovely - and I'm utterly enjoying being cared for so please resist the urge to mess it up).
A full, genuine response follows:
Para 1. I have little interest in wakefulness-promoting it is unnecessary. I have less interest in sleep-promoting - sleeping is wasted time. (see later para - hahah.)
Para 2. Another unclear sleep modifying thing for people who have a 'standard' pattern.
Para 3. I am convinced that sleep 'does' something. When i guinea pigged and they measured the amount of rem/deep sleep the results looked 'efficient' - in My best cycle I rem little and fall to deep sleep quickly and absolutely and rem on the way out. Although I don't sleep much, I do rest ie. lie down and relax to allow the body to rest and repair. If I try to sleep it takes ages to go to sleep and ages to wake up. The rem bits on going to sleep are always unpleasant and only happen when I try to sleep. The waking rems are always positive - often playing out possible scenarios of waking life and frequently provide insights and inspiration for concurrent real-life situations (eg at the moment I dream fund investment patterns).
Para 4. ? (Blank look)
Para 5. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/ I've guinea-pigged 3 times for this dept mostly 25-20 years ago. Recently offered myself again.
A Culture of 'Sleep Bulimia'
Para 1 - I've lived outside subjected to the elements and still sleep the same natural pattern - 4-8am - 10-2pm max 4 hours. The only time this hasn't been true was when I had a 9-5 job and other people to provide for - and it was -ing horrible.
Para 2. I rarely go outside. The technological age means I have a social group when historically I have read books while everyone else slept.
Para 3. Good side effect: I have more life
(Bad effect of the technology - I read less)
Para 4. The argument is becoming muddled - sleep is good. 'How much sleep' may be more individual. Any individual that interrupts their pattern - extends wakefulness or sleeps too long will experience a balancing effect: that's a different argument.
Para 5. Sleeping helps keep you.... Oh. that's a bummer. but I smoke, drink and drive a car and assume that at some point I will die.
Para 6. Sleep is essential... Yes I agree.
Para 7. There once was....longest I stayed awake for was 5 days - it was not pleasant. Hallucinations, pain, etc. Not good.
Para 8 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/research/index.html I've been involved in 3 studies in the last 25 years.
Para 9. Context... Yes - if you can choose to sleep when you are tired, it works.
Para 10. Don't know. I'm rarely ill but have had more ailments recently which I've put down to self-indulgence/the weather - I may be wrong.
Para 11. Van Cauter... Bugger.
Para 12. Many children... I've had the sleeping pattern I have since I was about 11.
Para 13. Bulimia - I like it the other way round.
Fatique Tax
Para 1. Bollocks. And I've been tested on this.
Para 2. Yes - absolutely agree. I have created a lifestyle in which my sleep pattern works. This is not what the tests assess. They test 'can you still work if your sleep is disrupted' NO NO NO of course not is the answer. The question is wrong.
Para 3. Students often wonder... see 2 above. Fit the life to the sleep and you can achieve anything.
Para 4. No. I say, 'Let me think about it.'
Para 5. Yes.
Para 6. Sticgolds colleague... NO NO NO NO NO - the test is the test - any comparisons to other situations are bollocks. Again the test is wrong.
Bodily Rituals
Para 1. Chemistry
Para 2. Chemistry
Para 3. I've tried big doses of caffeine - makes no difference at all.
Para 4. Hmm. When I oversleep (eg more than 5 hours) I'm not really awake for at least 8 hours.
Para 5. The adenosine cycle - this is how I try to live - eat when you're hungry
Para 6. Since the 1970's..... I'd like to give that a go to test my own bullshit.
Para 7. Exotic light....I have a higly localised siesta culture sometimes. Afternoon naps come more easily than night sleep.
Para 8. The origins... my sleep cycle is 24 hour just not at a culturally normal phase
Para 9. The light and dark...Yes. see?
- TigardGuy rated 30 months ago
- The best article on sleep that I have read. Sleep deprivation is a serious issue for many of of us.. including me. This is a must read!
- Wobbles rated 30 months ago
- xcellent article on the study of sleep and its importance to our physical and mental health. I think I'll go take a nap now.
- Thar rated 30 months ago
- From the page: "We are living in the middle of history's greatest experiment in sleep deprivation and we are all a part of that experiment," says Stickgold. "It's not inconceivable to me that we will discover that there are major social, economic, and health consequences to that experiment. Sleep deprivation doesn't have any good side effects."
- Stina rated 31 months ago
- fascinating article on sleep, sleep deprivation, and why sleep is important to both our mental and physical health. explained clearly enough that the average joe should be able to understand the basics of what's going on, while still maintaining credibility and providing solid evidence.
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