https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuIMqhT8DM
Great talk about how sleep impacts your memory and body.
I wish my super power was that I only needed 1 hour of sleep
Really reveals how good sleep feels to the average human that you opted to still have to sleep some of the time
God, sleeping is fucking incredible
I think the most useful bit was: "If you are laying in bed unable to sleep then get up and change rooms. You want to return to bed only when you are sleepy. You want to associate bed with sleep."
Not sold on that, but maybe worth a shot to keep my bed as a sleep only zone.
I don't really like sleeping to be honest.
I either have nightmares or fucked up dreams, or I sleep for 4 hours, wake up sore and restless and in pain, and I just start my day.
sleep is a goddamn waste of time
but necessary
Fuck sleep, stupidest biological need. It takes like 8 hours to do and it's stupidly hard to do sometimes, you can't just do it like you can eat food or drink water. Huge waste of time.
I'd prefer the ability to consistently have full lucid dreams. Imagine if you could sleep for 8 hours every night and use that time to do literally anything.
As someone with a few sleep disorders (hypersomnia, sleep apnea, also my REM sleep is a bit off compared to normal people), sleep is something a lot of people take for granted. I envy people who can just sleep for a few hours and then get up and go to work.
I don't feel well rested, ever, and I only feel like not-shit if I get 9 to 12 hours of sleep, plus my internal clock seems to be off by an hour because every night I'm tired one hour later than I should be, so it's like I'm constantly jet lagged. I was in bed last night at midnight and didn't fall asleep until 4am, luckily I only needed to be at work by 10am so I got about 5 hours of sleep so I wasn't a total zombie today. Getting to work on time has always been a struggle for me and thankfully my boss is okay if I'm a few minutes late, staying awake in class was impossible because I would literally pass out and couldn't stay awake if I tried, and I had to put in extra work to study what I missed during lectures and crib notes off of other people. Some instructors had pity and gave me the PowerPoint slides, others took my sleeping as an offense. Luckily in college most of my classes had a later time I could take, but the ones where I needed to be there at 8am were also the ones I did worst in.
Sleep is such an important quality of life thing, and without good sleep life is miserable. If you can get good sleep, then take advantage of it.
dreams are great
well just like anything then?
Not when I'm getting stabbed or shot for the nth time
I've spent the last couple of years cutting caffeine almost completely out of my diet and it's remarkable how much faster I fall asleep now. I went from tossing and turning for hours and getting 4-6 hours of sleep on a work night to being asleep within 30 minutes and consistently getting 7-8 hours. I can't say I feel that much better physically as a result, but my mental health has definitely improved: I'm less anxious in general, I have a stricter daily routine, and I no longer hate going to bed. I highly recommend cutting out caffeine to everyone, or at the very least reducing your intake and not having any past the middle of your day.
well don't then?
I fucking hate how because you're not 'productive' something is seen as a waste of time.
You want to make a good decision? Sleep on it. You want to be more productive? Take a nap.
This idea that organic functions are 'wastes of time' screams of the inability to understand how organic efficiency will always beat mechanical efficiency no matter how hard you slice things. Our mechanical brute force of electrical and machine efficiency is actually far less efficient than some of the simplest organic engines that produce the materials necessary for life. Accepting that will take you farther than just screaming how you've 'lost time.'
In addition; if your days is moving too fast already. You're wasting time to begin with.
I was conceptually speaking that if we could sleep less I would but then we couldn't. You make so much assumption.
Personally I'd prefer to spend that time doing things in the real world, but maybe that's just me.
I'm fairly lucky in that as long as I get 5 hours of sleep I am good to go for the next day.
Apologies if it comes off as you only toward you; I meant more toward the entire sentiment.
Why? what makes experiences in the real world always better? I've had some dreams that were amazing experiences
If there was a pill that made it so i didn't need sleep I would immediately take it. Otherwise I fucking love sleeping.
This morning it rained and got really cool, I couldn't help but sleep soundly all morning.
if i could sleep forever i would
There needs to be a patch pushed through the beta branch soon where sleep turns accumulative, and the amount of energy gained through naps and sleeping needs to be consistent as well. Sleep for 20 hours = 50+ hours of being alert and awake before needing to sleep again. 2-3 hour nap = 5-10 hours of energy gained.
I dunno I guess I just prefer my experiences to be real, it seems kinda like a given to me that a real experience is better than a dreamt experience.
Not saying I wish I didn't dream, but I certainly don't wish I spent more time sleeping so I could dream more.
But what's always better about real though?
The fact that its actually happening.
Look, sounds like we fundamentally disagree here, if I have to explain to someone why doing something in reality is better than fake doing it than our goals in life must be very different, and that's more than okay .
idk, I feel like in the grand scope of a person's life, what happened in "reality" doesn't matter too much. Plus the idea that our concept of reality is nowhere near objective. Idk, I would also prefer to live in whatever it is we call the "real world", but there's no for sure way to tell if that's what we ever really experience.
Unfortunately I don't have another room I can move all my shit into and have one room specifically as my Bedroom, I live with my Dad and each room serves a purpose, like really, I'm not living in a big place and I don't know how many people are where they can use up two rooms for themselves, unless you live by yourself or with someone who shares the bedroom with you, but I don't have that luxury so, my bedroom is my computer room/office, so I can't associate my bedroom with sleeping only.
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