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Theory i built recently, would like a arguement regarding it

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, 03-07-2011 at 03:15 AM (330 Views)
alrighty, so i occasionally go really trippy and start thinking on completely unprovoked topics.

So today's topic is SLEEP.

Sleep is normally identified as a chance for your body to rest and for your mind to organize the events of the day. the former being noticed by feeling rested as you awaken, and the latter being noticed by Sleeping far to much when suffering from depression and the like.

Now, sleep is caused by a physical trigger as well as a mental trigger. However, the Physical trigger only truly hits us in cases of being K.O.'d by a blow or some other physical trauma. the other choices are a mental path, led by either choosing to slip into blissful oblivion, or lack of mental activity making us drop into it in a matter of seconds.

Now, from what i see by my logic is that Sleep would be a useless concept, should one manager to control their minds and relax their bodies on a set method.

If one could have a near perfect control of their perception of the world, and organize their thoughts, would that not remove almost all cause for sleep?

and if the trigger for removing the need for sleep is so simple as mastering ones mind and body, does that not open a world of possibilities for the night to no longer being the silent hours when normal people waste lying in a bed?


Now, i am not claiming that ALL sleep should be forgone, but the amount of sleep we use is.... disproportionate in comparison to how much work we actually do in a day.

SO. someone comment on here, and help shut this mindset down, so i can argue against it and refine my view of this.

because one day, when i have a job i dont need to bust my ass at every single day, i hope to attempt this in a safe and controlled way.

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  1. Casanova's Avatar
    I don't think the amount of sleep I get is disproportionate to the amount of work I do in a day. Not by far. I get worked like an Alaskan mut most days, but that's neither here nor there as far as this is concerned. The only thing humans need is REM sleep, and on average we only get two hours of that for every eight hours we sleep and it's almost ALWAYS at the very end of our sleep cycles, which is why most people will find that they wake from a dream and can't get back to sleep, or they wake from a dream and it's almost time for work, etc. because REM sleep is when our brains are most active. Strangely, though, this is the time when our 'batteries', if you will, charge better.

    It is possible to train our brains to only sleep in 'REM mode' and there is a brain hack somewhere on the web that teaches you to sleep in four twenty-minute periods throughout the day and always stay refreshed, or so it claims. Whether or not this is true I don't know but scientific studies show undeniably that REM is the most important phase of our sleep cycles, and to get there we need to go through six or so hours of useless sleep first, unless you're terribly lucky.
  2. Doaj's Avatar
    Look up the Uberman sleep schedule. That's how to refine your daily sleeping.
  3. Ryvius's Avatar
    I have found very little supporting the uberman sleep schedule aside from college kids saying "Dude, it totally works." Scientific evidence seems to point towards it as being as self destructive as you'd think it would be. Sleep is important, I don't know that there's any getting around it.
  4. blexmer's Avatar
    well, my main thing is i have yet to hear anything that truly says that something happens during sleep that is any different for how you get energy beyond your body is completely at rest during it.

    admittedly, i am not a professional scientist when it comes to sleep, but still, i find this interesting.

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