Overcoming Sleep

[Anonymous No.9718283]

Let's talk sleep /sci/.
If we assume that the average person in most developed countries sleeps 8 hours a day, and that the average lifespan is ~75 years, then 25 years on average of every persons' life is spent unconscious. 25 years obviously a massive fucking amount of time, and its' wasted on biological and neurological processes that can be sped up.
If we were to artificially reduce that average amount of sleep needed without disturbing the cycles that sleep can perpetuate, just a 2 hour reduction would give people ~6.5 years of their life to be spent doing, well, anything really.
So how do we achieve this? Is it biologically possible to augment sleep patterns and sleeping conditions to condense deep sleep into a shorter period? And are we able to rejuvenate muscles in a shorter period of time than is normally required with drugs or better sleep patterns? Or how about simply inducing REM artificially to save efficiency?

[Anonymous No.9718707]

>>9718283
this brings me in mind that episode from dr. who with that sleep pod or whatever it was.
5 minutes in ,then you slept like 8-9 hrs

[Anonymous No.9718712]

>>9718283
The problem is that we don't really know why sleep is so crucial. We think it has to do mostly with repairing neurological damage accrued during the day, but we don't really know.

[Anonymous No.9718726]

>>9718712
Is there a good source for following this research? Im woefully underread on neurology

[Anonymous No.9718733]

I'm not going to comment much on OP but just a note. My mental clarity went through the roof once I started getting consistent sleep of ~9hrs a night.

consider it if you're not already

[Anonymous No.9718740]

>>9718283
You can't use the program while it's updating.

[Anonymous No.9718782]

>>9718283
The amount of waking hours is irrelevant. A few quality hours at peak performance are more valuable than an entire mediocre week. There are so many things to do, so much time to invest just to get in your peak physical and mental condition.

If you want to have more time you should start removing 4chan out of your life.

[Anonymous No.9718806]

>>9718283
Maybe Buckminster Fuller could have an answer to that

[Anonymous No.9718815]

>>9718283
6.5 years of more anime, sign me up

[Anonymous No.9718822]

>>9718782
Except 4chan is not /b/, it pushes you to improve your life: /fit/, /pol/, /sci/ etc.

[Anonymous No.9718826]

>>9718283
A scientist who studies sleep recommended a short power nap (in addition to enough sleep) to get back wakefulness during the day. Caffeine does nothing in that matter.

He also said: If you need a alarm clock to wake up you have already lost. You should wake naturally.

[Anonymous No.9718827]

>>9718283
But I like sleep. It's my favourite thing to do

[Anonymous No.9718870]

>>9718822
Even if that was true it would be an incredibly unfocused and ineffecient way of improving your life aka useless.

[Anonymous No.9718881]

>>9718283
>If we assume that the average person in most developed countries sleeps 8 hours a day

I would give y left nut to get 8 hours of sleep a day.

Sleeping less, and going through your day beat to shit and groggy, does not make your life longer. It will make it SEEM longer, but not in a good way.

[Anonymous No.9719252]

>>9718712
I always sleep for extreme amounts of time after bumping my head. Maybe youre right

[Anonymous No.9719271]

>>9718822
pol is dumber than b and significantly more harmful to your life. But if you've made a post like this you're already hopelessly lost and hopelessly dumb.

[Anonymous No.9719273]

>>9718283
you probably spend 2 and 1/2 years busting ye nuts to traps so you might wanna make that lest time wasting before you get high on 5 hour energy...

[Anonymous No.9719361]

>>9719252
That's called being comatose, anon.

[Anonymous No.9719373]

>>9718740
>he's never used linux

[Anonymous No.9719473]

>>9719273
I don't regret it at all

[Anonymous No.9719477]

>>9718826
when I sleep without an alarm clock, I sleep for like 10-16 hours though

what do

[Anonymous No.9719480]

>>9718712
Isn’t it to help maintain homeostasis in the body? A car thats running 100% of the time isn’t gonna do so well compared to one that rests.

[Anonymous No.9719797]

>>9719477
go to bed earlier until that number goes down again?

Apparently the brain remembers just how much sleep deficit you have accrued.

Try the sleep onset latency test during the day (like 10AM) to see how tired you really are.

[Anonymous No.9719799]

>>9718822
Would have been a decent bait if you had cited a few more boards before /pol/. You put it there too soon. Ah well, good try.

[Anonymous No.9719881]

>>9719477
Sleep outside, let the sun's sweet rays wake you up

[Anonymous No.9720021]

>>9718283
Every minute im asleep is a minute saved of having to deal with the catastrophic bullshit that is modern society, why would I want to reduce that number.

[Anonymous No.9720433]

>>9719361
wake me up

[Anonymous No.9720482]

>>9718822
>/pol/
>Improving life
/pol/ is nothing but being edgy and raging. It's a downgrade to life because they see Jews and non-whites everywhere and can't relax and can't stop being angry.

[Anonymous No.9720722]

>>9720482
You don't relax around blacks.

[Anonymous No.9722483]

>>9718283
I like my sleep thank you very much