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- sotopheavy, on 12/28/2007, -8/+419Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
- LordSeth, on 12/28/2007, -5/+194I want...... this is so going to help me balance gaming, work and sleep.
- kweeky, on 12/28/2007, -3/+180It is not just your brain that requires sleep.
- phixed, on 12/28/2007, -4/+153Sleep by choice instead of necessity has always been a dream of mine.
- Scipio, on 12/28/2007, -6/+126No sleeping = no dreaming...what's the fun in that?
- PA42, on 12/28/2007, -2/+122Call me crazy, but I enjoy sleeping. This drug sounds pretty cool for occasional work, but I do not wish to replace sleep with anything. If you can find me a drug that will make me believe I was sleeping when I was actually working, then I'm in.
- norman619, on 12/28/2007, -2/+71You are forgetting the need to dream while sleeping. We do not really understand why we need to sleep. It is much more than just regaining your energy. Lack of dreaming effects your mental stability. You'd be nuts to stake a drug to stop the sleep cycle w/o fully understanding what sleep really is.
- thechr0nic, on 12/28/2007, -8/+70I already work 84+ hours a week. thats 7 - 12 hour days.
sometimes I log as many as 104 hours in one week, but fortunately not all the time.
(although I usually only have to work one week, and then I get the following week off)
So if there is a brain chemical that can be snorted to keep me from having to ever sleep again, I might just be interested. - meta44, on 12/28/2007, -0/+57I agree. When else would I ever be able to have sex with halle berry
- xdeliriumx, on 12/28/2007, -1/+54I enjoy coffee but it doesn't keep me up.
- bigboy101011, on 12/28/2007, -1/+50When you sleep your immune system does a lot of work, with out sleep you will eventually die from an infection
- norman619, on 12/28/2007, -1/+48They get the drug from a company called Umbrella?
- jr93087, on 12/28/2007, -1/+42There's no way that this could simply replace sleep. What about physical fatigue??
- jmichaelg, on 12/28/2007, -0/+40Sleep has been shown to give the brain time to move short term memories to long term storage. It'll be interesting to see if people who snort this stuff completely forget what they did a few days earlier. Here's a link to the study...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/05062 ... - Scrappy1850, on 12/28/2007, -0/+40what restaurant do you work for?
- banning, on 12/28/2007, -12/+50"Any commercial treatment using the substance would need approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which can take more than a decade." - ***** bull *****... i wanna know where to sign up to test this *****
- cespee, on 12/28/2007, -1/+39Orexin is the brain chemical you're supposed to snort, and it can make you fat!
(From Wikipedia: Orexin increases the craving for food, and correlates with the function of the substances that promote its production... Such a relationship has been long suspected, based on the observation that long-term sleep deprivation in rodents dramatically increases food intake and energy metabolism, i.e., catabolism, with lethal consequences on a long-term basis.) - Elranzer, on 12/28/2007, -4/+42Coffee... you can sleep when you're dead.
- logicalnoise, on 12/28/2007, -0/+37I remember a article from a while back talking about the army testing this or something like it. They said it worked but very quickly the soldiers said they felt like zombies.
- objectcode, on 12/28/2007, -2/+36he wasn't asking what your drug of choice was
- racekarl, on 12/28/2007, -1/+33Very misleading title. The drug does not replace sleep, it eliminates sleepiness. There is a *very* big difference....
- neel360, on 12/28/2007, -5/+35What did the five fingers say to the face?
- plr4ever, on 12/28/2007, -1/+29Use the reply button next time.
- TheYar, on 12/28/2007, -0/+27Zombies? This just got that much cooler.
- DangerMouse9, on 12/28/2007, -1/+28Hopefully you're not servicing the heavy equipment. The last thing anyone should really be doing is operating heavy machinery when they're about to fall asleep.
- masterm1nd, on 12/28/2007, -4/+29Damnit, you beat me to it. I'm going to re word it and post it further down the page...
- schnikies79, on 12/28/2007, -1/+26Periods in the sense that modern woman have them is NOT natural. Women were meant to be pregnant more often than not during child bearing age and would have very few periods before hitting menopause or dieing. Remember, a period is a non-completed pregnancy.
Personally, I have no problem with man-made things. Nature is not a sentient being. - 5xSTUN, on 12/28/2007, -0/+24That could very well explain "Cow Tools."
- bulkhater, on 12/28/2007, -1/+24No, it's going to let you balance work and gaming by eliminating sleep...
- chaoswings, on 12/28/2007, -0/+22This all seems well and good but I won't trust it until it has been out on the market for quite awhile. All these drug companies start claiming miracles until they discover some sort of adverse effect that takes years to show itself. Then they try and bury everything
- Radar3D, on 12/28/2007, -0/+22Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!
- Tangeuray, on 12/28/2007, -1/+23My favorite cartoonist was Gary Larson(The Far Side) who would stay up for days on end until he was insane enough to draw his cartoons!!!!
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -0/+21You are so getting tased.
- joelito, on 12/28/2007, -0/+21I'm sure most Diggers don't have jobs that strain the body that much.
- coviecarbine, on 12/28/2007, -1/+22Your story was somewhat anticlimactic.
- nikipedia, on 12/28/2007, -1/+20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
- norman619, on 12/28/2007, -0/+18No dreaming = Mental breakdown.
- MRintheKeys, on 12/28/2007, -1/+19They make Viagra and Cialis for that.
- thechr0nic, on 12/28/2007, -1/+19yeah, its not all that bad. technically I only work half of the year and get decent pay to do it. I log almost 44 hours a week in straight overtime on top of the 40 hours of straight time.
The schedual is great, week on and week off, and if I choose, I can work on my offweek too (it has the effect of doubling my paycheck for that period)
the longest I have done it, is 5 straight weeks at 12+ hours a day.. you do get a bit worn out, after a while, but is usually worth it financially :) - utdrew182, on 12/28/2007, -1/+18Sure that wasn't an X-Files episode?
- Tangeuray, on 12/28/2007, -0/+17Air Force used Meth before... I have also heard Hitlers army ran on the stuff...
- StormyAaron, on 12/28/2007, -0/+16To every one who is thinking about not sleeping any more, the only problem is that when you sleep your body makes repairs to damage it got during the day, micro fractures in bones, general ware and tear, etc. With out sleep these repairs might not happen as effectively as they normally are done.
- breckinshire, on 12/28/2007, -5/+21***** you!
- wtfpwned98, on 12/28/2007, -0/+15By balance, he means "maintain a job while keeping up with the hardcore kids and the unemployed."
- edwartica, on 12/28/2007, -1/+16your mom won't miss washing your sheets every night though.
- johnpaul191, on 12/28/2007, -0/+15your muscles also rebuild during the night. obviously more important for people that exercise or have some even minor injury, but your body is constantly replacing cells. most of that work is while your body is sleeping. while your brain may function seemingly ok, everything else is going to *****.
I suppose I can throw in a Blade Runner quote now..
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy." - thetechkid, on 12/28/2007, -3/+18Eating good food is one of the tops of living, how you can ever think of it as only a necessity I will never know.
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -1/+15He is being dug down for missing the cocaine joke as are you.
- norman619, on 12/28/2007, -0/+14Not remembering your dreams and not dreaming are 2 very different things.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 12/28/2007, -0/+13Can I keep my teeth?
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