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I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about six months ago. Once I started getting treatment for it (losing weight, cutting out caffeine, and an oral appliance) my life started getting dramatically better. I had never taken sleep very seriously prior to that and I feel extremely foolish for it. Life is 100x better if you get an appropriate amount of sleep. Everything becomes a little easier.
If you have any doubts about sleep quantity and quality, worth reading about the glymphatic nervous system, which is so newly discovered likely you didn’t learn about it in school. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636982/ In short it explains, mechanistically, why poor sleep affects daily cognition, mental health, and age-related declines. Robust scientific theories explain more of the evidence. The glym…
It says that it was published in 2015, or am I missing something?
In case you didn't know, sleeping on your right side maximizes the clearance effect, while sleeping on your stomach minimizes it.
In case you didn't know, sleeping on your right side maximizes the clearance effect, while sleeping on your stomach minimizes it.
could someone eli5 this for me pls.
Think of it as whilst awake all the experience and sensory input, nutrients(or lack) you experience throughout the day result in basically the brain doing all its activites and various parts, functions and syncopated waves/rthyms etc get out of phase. Much like you occasionally reboot your machine to flush and re-align memory etc... When you sleep, your sensory input systems are handed a surrogate (dreams) whist the…
Any recommendations on how long should I sleep for this process to kick off and get completed? Or does it happen all the time I am sleeping?
If you have any doubts about sleep quantity and quality, worth reading about the glymphatic nervous system, which is so newly discovered likely you didn’t learn about it in school. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636982/ In short it explains, mechanistically, why poor sleep affects daily cognition, mental health, and age-related declines. Robust scientific theories explain more of the evidence. The glym…
> which is so newly discovered It says that it was published in 2015, or am I missing something?
That's a really interesting scientific finding. From a personal experience, once I closed my eyes and actually observed this phenomenon. I could observe many spherical waves of light each pulsating, and not only that but I could feel the effect of each wave viscerally. It definitely felt healing. I wasn't sure what this was, was it the vibes of meditators around the world? Maybe this research finding is what I was ob…
In case you didn't know, sleeping on your right side maximizes the clearance effect, while sleeping on your stomach minimizes it.
Could you point us to the source?
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524974/#!po=72...
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> which is so newly discovered It says that it was published in 2015, or am I missing something?
Am I missing something? 2015 for a paper feels relatively new enough that people might not know about it and it might not be in school books.
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I wonder if this state could be ultrasonically induced to have a "sleep helmet" which can calm and align rhythmic waves? and induce an artificial flush or "power nap" -- Well, thats basically the trope of every Cybernetic design, with the connectors comming out the back of head/spine... Like a continual wash which keeps you in this suspended hyper-aware, but calm, rested and focused mental state. This is why cyborgs…
I was thinking if we could directly tap and pump fresh cerebrospinal fluid and eliminate sleep