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- ktchpmn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+59"Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet."
Amen to that. - Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27"Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock."
Who thought of trying that out in the first place? - giantAppleCore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Nevermind, it's been debunked - http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/08_02/bright_knees.shtml
- Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Don't put spam ***** at the end of your comments.
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I don't sleep. Sleep is for babies.
/refering to video of Wii fan - scheibs14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%."
Yay for free booze! - Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm curious what they mean about the Challenger accident having some sort of relationship to sleep deprivation. As I understand it, a NASA engineer named Roger Boisjoly warned nearly 6 months prior to the disaster that the O-rings on the solid rocket boosters might fail in cold weather, but his memo not taken seriously by management. That's pretty much what caused the accident. I don't see how sleep deprivation factored into that at all, but maybe there is more to the story.
- Bosox958, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My I be the first to say...Amazing
Come on people, learn some new adjectives - Wratherin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day."
Hasn't it always been said that if you can't get to sleep after ten minutes then you need to get up and go do something else to make you tired eonugh to go to sleep? - Snowcone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes, he was over in the South Pacific somewhere and hadn't slept in like 30 years or something crazy.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day."
WTH?
It takes me anywhere from 30min-3hours to get to sleep. Can anyone actually fall asleep in 5min? - jmacdonagh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It generally takes me 30+ minutes to get to sleep.
- davesphone00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sleeping is my favorite hobby. You never know how much you enjoy it until you're deprived of it for a long time.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4amen brother. Even if I'm totally sleep deprived and tired as a *****, falling asleep in under half a hour is next to unimaginable. It takes me generally around an hour before I knock out. I have freinds who can ***** lay down and as soon as they close their eyes they are off in dream land. I have no ***** clue how that is even possible.
- dgendreau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What? A listing of sleep facts but no mention of
1) Sleep Paralysis
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html
2) Night Terrors
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/sleep/a/night_terrors.htm
or 3) Hypnogogic Halucinations?
http://neurology.health-cares.net/hypnagogic-hallucination.php
All very common. I strongly believe that 1 and 3 are responsible for the majority of reported night time ghostly or alien abduction experiences. - b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet."
Ironically enough, I should have been asleep around 20 minutes ago now... :) - giantAppleCore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone have any more information on this study? I tried searching for "Sleep" and "Knee" but they seem to be a bit too vague.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if 20 minutes is the cut off then I would never be able sleep again
- mad1stl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yea me too. That article made me fn tired. Must get coffee.
- Shiggen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whats they called when you have just fallen to sleep, but immediately start having a dream, like you are playing football or driving a car or something and there is some type of collision with something and then like your leg kicks and you wake up?
- pauleku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I didnt know if it was listed on there, but you are in a state of paralysis every night when you sleep as part of your sleep cycle. Some people wake up in this state and are concious, but are not able to move or scream or anything. Forgot what the disorder is called.
- andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@treelovinhippie:
If I go on long bike rides (40+ miles) or do lots of work I can be asleep in about 5 minutes. Other then that, normal days I'm sleep in about 15 minutes.
I have sleep apnea. So I wear a APAP machine (it's like a CPAP, but it will adjust to the correct pressure as I move around, start snoring, or my breathing becomes interupted) to make sure that my breathing passage stays open when I sleep. So I sleep through the night and wake up feeling refreshed. It doesn't mean that I feel like taking on the world when I wake up. Or even that I want to actually get up. But I get a good night sleep. - fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What i had learned in Bio-chem was that there was a nerve ganglion responsible for helping balance, located behind the knee, with a circulatory path controlled by rhodopsin, a chemical also responsible for light sensitivity.
Which was thought to be why Viagra, which works on rhodopsin, causes blue vision, and can cause wooziness (imbalance).
But the article you found seems to suggest otherwise... - whiskyagogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dunno what its technical name is, but it's called Sleep Paralysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
Been around since the beginning of time, apparently, and I guess it has something to do with not fully coming out of REM (?) when you wake up. Happened to me once and freaked the hell outta me. - pureliquidhw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2my doctor said that 20 minutes was the cut-off
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ jd5alive
Way to steal giantAppleCore's post - Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always wondered by what it means when you "need" a certain amount of sleep. No one I know ever follows that, but they all function normally.
- herschelaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@giantapple
thanks for the answer, i was just gonna ask the same question - bluephoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1excellent promotion algorithm
- ryanfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1interesting
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents."
wow! - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ andreo
Wow. I think I've got sleep apnea too. I'm actually having a sleep study in about a week. Kinda hoping I do have it so I can wake up feel refreshed and not the current state where I feel as though I'm more tired than the day before. - b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It sounds like you *need* some sheep.
Uh, sleep. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year"
Great, so I won't sleep at all. - jedikv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1zzzzzzzzz.........wha?
kidding aside, intresting read - Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are you saying that you only sleep 750 hours in a year as it is? That's only about 2 hours a day...
- resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ yyan & Snowcone:
FTA: "It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it."
I read that, and my guess is that his case is one bizarre variation of this principle; if that's really true. He probably has some deeply ***** up sleep pattern, falls sleep while still being somehow productive and conscious to some level, and when "wakes up" doesn't remember, or feel, ever sleeping at all.
To illustrate, once a year my family takes a 5-6 hours trip to the country. My mom ALWAYS complains that she can't sleep during the trip, even though sometimes she obviously falls asleep for an hour or longer. She even snores, as she always does when she sleeps normally, at home. And even though we're all witnesses to that, she says it can't be, or else she'd know about it.
So I'm a bit skeptical about this guy not having any form of sleep at all. In my opinion he just needs to be studied more thoroughly. - fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From TFA:
"No-one knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans."
This is outright incorrect. Dogs and cats are both known to dream; any dog or cat owner who has observed them sleeping more than trivially can tell you this. -Digg for incorrect "fact." - dspain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hypnogogic Sensation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogogic - soulpiercer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Internet keeps me from going to sleep all the time. It's almost 1. I was tired at 11.
I blame digg... - epheterson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet."
aaaand its 3:40 AM - pauleku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@whiskey
Whoa man, that would freak me out. What did ya do? Just go back to sleep? - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Bury me.
- DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what the f*ck is a rocking chair competition?
- Angrysock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought that said sheep...
- miamibest, on 10/11/2008, -0/+0haha great article, the most amazing fact is that i didn't go to sleep!! but seriously, all i need is nice sleepwear and comfortable bed and i'm all ready to go. I sleep on a temperpudic bed and pillow and i get any sleepwear/pajamas from http://teasesharp.info and i'm dead asleep, but always good to read about what i do when i'm sleeping. hehe
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4wasnt there an article about a man that never slept for several years?
- spartan17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Do they get a lot of crashes on the only road?
- Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Nice Informing description man. ;-)
- johnmagiter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock. "
That one's easy: because it's not true.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/297/5581/571 -
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