I got half way though and got sleepy will finish it in the morning
Sleep research has produced fascinating findings, but what is still very mysterious to scientists-—during deep sleep the EEG is flat lined-—is why we wake up.
Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn !
Nite Doc !
nite folks 8^)
So. God had a reason for the number of light and dark hours.
I am willing to accept everything these studies show, except this part:
“Van Cauter has made a radical discovery: that lack of sleep may be contributing to the epidemic of obesity in this country through the work of a hormone called leptin that tells your brain when you’re full.”
If you sleep less than 8 hours per night then naturally you’re going to need more food for energy.
I awoke and realized I was not breathing. It was one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced. In fact it was even worse than that.
It took maybe five minutes of heavy breathing to catch my breath. My Dr. told me it could be serious and if it happened again he would have me go through a program to study it.
Fortunately it never recurred.
Evolution is supposed to be purely accidental but at the same time people like this speak as if evolution is a living entity. They deny a creator but insist that evolution can plan things and make mistakes. One of their constant refrains is that animals "experiment" with certain aspects of physical change, such as flight, indicating that they believe evolution actually has a brain and can set up certain species with experiments before the final change over to another species is made.
As for sleep serving some "critical" function, how about the fact it repairs the damage done to our bodies during waking periods, you know, replacing cells renewing our energy, I guess that isn't a critical function. The reason rats die in 5 days without sleep is because their bodies wear out without the needed sleep to repair the damage. What morons we have running the planet in these times.
Lesley Stahl puts me to sleep.
I hope most FReepers are savvy enough to realize that there are truth and fiction mixed together in this CBS report. Impossible to unpack it all in one go. But an interesting read, nonetheless...
I find it ironic that all of their ‘test subjects’ are upper middle class college students, perhaps the most spoiled, pampered class in America today.
I bet they’d get different results had they studied in a Marine unit, or even on a farm.
They point out that the subject was ‘temporarily’ at increased risk since his body was not metabolizing sugar effectively. How does continued lack of sleep move one over to ‘permanently’ not metabolizing sugar properly? One is from an interruption in the normal sleep pattern..the other is a diagnosis. It even says “Jonathan will be fine once he goes back to his normal sleep routine,”...indicating if type 2 patients just starting going to bed at 8 or 9pm, they’d be fine? Or have they had their sleep upset for too long?
hmmmmmmm......curious....perhaps looking in it further would produce some interesting findings. At some point, after continued lack of sleep, does something finally shut down?
Bump for later, when I’m a little more awake...
Thanks for posting this. It was fascinating.
Interesting, thanks.
I tried a split-sleep schedule for a while. Thirty years ago I took a job as a copywriter at a large ad agency and discovered that the work was stultifying, so I broke the day in half. I arrived at the agency at 9am and wrote magazine ads and TV commercials all day, then went home and went right to bed.
I’d wake up around 9 or 10pm and write fiction and magazine articles until 4 in the morning, then go to bed. I did it for six months. I didn’t have any social life, but I sure got a lot done!
This guy has it figured out
www.sleepingrich.com