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- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16you do of coarse know that there is a "rest of the world" out there and these "rest of the worldians" are situated within differen't time zones... :)
- groo68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I've seen pictures of the rest of the world but I thought they were just concept art, when was it built?
- TDot1980, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12One thing I know about sleep - I'm going there now. And you should too. Geez.
- aOenEz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6High five on all the parenthesis. :D
- drakonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"10 In 1964 17-year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours and 12 minutes, the world's record. He then slept for 15 hours—not a record, but not bad."
264 is 11 days...
...I've been awake longer. Over 14 days. I was too out of it to know exactly how long. - rorrison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"9 A six-year study of a million adults showed that people who get only six to seven hours of sleep a night have a lower death rate than those who get eight hours."
What, less than 100%? I think they just haven't waited long enough. - captainmarvel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yes, a man in Farooj, Milow (a country in Nepal (yes Nepal has other countries inside it (3 (the other two (each of them has one other country inside IT) are HoppoH (which has Turkey II (capital: Michael Stipe)) and Heaven (yes the one from the Bible (capital (Heaven's, not the bible's): Mt. Suvius) (but can't tell you country inside heaven)))) knows why we sleep but he doesn't have a telephone.
- Scooley01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I want a refund, I DID know some of those!
Just kidding, that was a good list, and 20 is better than all these top 10s floating around! - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Once I pulled an all-nighter and was so wiped out I then slept for 17 hours....don't see how he could stay awake for 264 hrs...
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Weird. I couldn't sleep, I've been lying in bed for hours. Decided to come on digg real quick to get my mind off sleeping, and I find this story :-/
- DPyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3im posting and its 4 26 am here...amen to sleeping
- FoolyCoolyGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Amen to sleeping
- drakonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was quite unintentional.. A couple years ago I became ill with a few different related things, and then had an allergic reaction to the medication, which kept me sick in bed for 2 day short of a month. For some reason I was unable to sleep because of it. At some point after the first 2 weeks I managed to get a couple hours of sleep early one morning... It wasn't until the last week that I had another night in which I managed to sleep a couple hours again, and then after the month was over I slowly started getting ~20min more sleep each night until it was back to normal.
I highly do NOT recommend it ;) At one point, between the lack of sleep and the second medication I was put on I became so loopy I somehow found some colored pencils and a notebook, and for no apparent reason sat up for hours drawing random pictures. - iSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well you can actually say that you've beaten a world record, cool, though I must ask why and how.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i did the same thing as xanin this week, bout the same number too
- leonwehttam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+313 Who knew it was that easy? A Muslim couple in India is being forced to split up after the husband uttered the word talaq, the Arabic word for divorce, three times in his sleep. According to Muslim law, the "triple talaq" is an actual divorce.
Man if only this were true in the US :D - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Over a lifetime, an average person spends more than six years dreaming, overclocking more than 136,000 in all."
fixed. - cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good list, but some of them are talking about the same thing.
- Forma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The damned site is blocking Opera, Bastards! Identifying as Mozilla solves the problem though.
Timely article BtW, been awake for some 27 hours now. Must. Finish. Paper. - siodine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"17 But nobody knows why we dream."
No one knows why objects fall to the earth when you drop them either... but we do have theories! - tomdupl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find it fascinating that ppl who sleep less live longer. And I read elsewhere that those people are generally more healthy and more productive. My (uninformed, un-scientific) opinion is that people who sleep less (other than for circumstantial reasons) have a stronger sense of purpose than the rest of us - it's like 'I just want to do one more thing before I go to bed'. And people like that lead happier, more fulfilled lives to start with. My point: the less sleep is not a pre-requisite for a longer life, but a side-effect.
- slearwig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Quote "17 But nobody knows why we dream."
Really? I thought dreams were the way the brain discharges the
day's stresses while at the same time setting up for
Black REM (REM with a clear mind and no dreams)
and the Krebbs Cycle (production of trace levels of Phosphoric Acid
necessary for the recycling of sugar from wastes).
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http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/view_profile.php ... buy allegra - funkpucker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6yeah.... good article for the late night crowd
- eggstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would like to add some more:
most people sleep at night
some people snore
... com'on, there has to something more interesting about sleep than this - cytokinesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0damnit, i hate how i have to go to work now.
- slearwig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe people who sleep less live longer because they have something to live for.
The people who don't have a reason stay in bed
and forget to take care of themselves. - Shukaido, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0did anyone else read that article about the vietnamese man who hasn't slept in like 33 years? and if that was true, shouldn't he be the world record holder for longest period stayed awake since 289080ish hours > 264 hours?
- Oneton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People who sleep longer are probably suffering from sleep apnea;which is really hard on your heart so they don't live as long.
- tawnykw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think you're on the right track, but I'm guessing that people who NEED longer amounts of sleep might already have something wrong with them that makes the longer hours a necessity. Therefore, a pre-existing condition could also be blamed for people who need more sleep having shorter lives.
- poxoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Thanks a lot! Hard to beleive.
- thegrouch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1great article
- bnitro, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Suzanne Sommers is a bed wetter heh heh
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