DailyDirt: Sleeping Might Not Be Over-rated
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
It's still a bit mysterious why sleep is so necessary. Some people seem to need more than others, and there's at least one guy who claims he doesn't need sleep at all. Here are just a few more tidbits on the topic of sleeping, for all of you sleepyheads and night owls.- Sleeping for only 2-3 hours per day with a polyphasic sleep schedule sounds like a difficult regimen to maintain. This diary of a polyphasic sleep experiment ends after about 5 months, and it's not too hard to imagine why more people don't try it. [url]
- About 1-2% of the population consists of "long sleepers" who need at least 10 hours of sleep at night in order to function normally. Sleep duration varies widely and could involve genetic factors. (Surprise!) [url]
- If you think you're special and don't need as much sleep as anyone else, maybe you are or maybe parts of your brain are shutting down while you're awake and you don't even realize it. At least in sleep-deprived rats, scientists can observe "local sleep" where parts of these rat brains shut down while the rat is still conscious. [url]
- To discover more interesting articles on the human mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Filed Under: local sleep, long sleepers, polyphasic sleep, sleep
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polyphasci sleep!
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could always try this one
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They're special
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i am the 1-2%
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Narcolepsy suffer confirms that restful sleep is not over rated
When I sleep I go into REM sleep nearly instantly so my brain never gets any restful sleep.
The only way I can get good restful sleep is to take expensive medication Xyrem which is a form of GHB, one of the "date rape" drugs.
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Most people's natural clocks are set to about 25 hours for some reason, so you're probably right.
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Vitamin D3
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SmartSleep project
We alredy have a functioning prototype that we use in our everyday life, but we need funds to finish it and launch to pruduction. So we created a company on kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/222464008/smartsleep-first-application-for-polyphasic-sleepe
We apreciate any feedback, proposals and contributions. If you have any questions please contact us.
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