DailyDirt: Sleeping Might Not Be Over-rated

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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. By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
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Filed Under: local sleep, long sleepers, polyphasic sleep, sleep


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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2012 @ 5:11pm

    polyphasci sleep!

    sleepin only a couple hrs/day sounds good to me! but the part whre you can't stay awake for 8hrs straight puts a pretty huge monkeywrench in the works.

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2012 @ 5:53pm

    could always try this one

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2012 @ 5:59pm

    They're special

    "where parts of these rat brains shut down while the rat is still conscious" - sounds like most politicians...

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    • identicon
      Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2012 @ 8:38pm

      Re: They're special

      Not really. It said parts of the brain, not the whole thing.

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    mm777 (profile), 11 Jan 2012 @ 6:24pm

    i am the 1-2%

    i need 12 hours of sleep to function normally.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2012 @ 7:23pm

    Narcolepsy suffer confirms that restful sleep is not over rated

    I suffer from Narcolepsy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy

    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.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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      Michael Ho (profile), 11 Jan 2012 @ 10:44pm

      Re: Narcolepsy suffer confirms that restful sleep is not over rated

      thankfully, you've found something that helps you get some restful sleep..

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Marie, 11 Jan 2012 @ 7:43pm

    I'm definitely in the 10+ to function range. Glad to see there's research to back me up.

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    • identicon
      Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 12 Jan 2012 @ 2:42am

      Re:

      I keep thinking I would be happier with something like a 26-hour day.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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        nasch (profile), 12 Jan 2012 @ 11:56am

        Re: Re:

        I keep thinking I would be happier with something like a 26-hour day.

        Most people's natural clocks are set to about 25 hours for some reason, so you're probably right.

        link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Jeff F, 12 Jan 2012 @ 6:58am

    Vitamin D3

    I've had various degrees of insomnia and have tried over the counter med's, marijuana (inhaled and digested), Homeopathic's, alcohol, and prescriptions that caused very negative side effects. The one thing that did help the most was Vitamin D3 which helps produce melatonin in the body.

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    Rekrul, 12 Jan 2012 @ 8:00am

    The shorter sleep schedule sounds appealing, but I can never fall asleep that fast.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Eugene, 5 Nov 2013 @ 4:36pm

    SmartSleep project

    Hi, guys. I am a polyphasic sleeper for almost 2 years and I sleep 4,5 hours a day. Me and my friends made lots of experiments on this fied and we want to share our experience. We decided to create a mobile application that would be an essential guide to polyphasic sleep experience for everyone.

    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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