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Theses on Sleep

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Re: Theses on Sleep

#51

Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll

>Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll

I wholeheartedly agree. Similarly, people outside of astrology shouldn't be criticizing astrology.

Re: Theses on Sleep

#52
post #47

> My sleep statistics tells me that I slept an average of 5:25 hours over the last 7 days, 5:49 hours over the last 30 days, and 5:57 over the last 180 days hours, meaning that I’m awake for 18 hours per day instead of 16.5 hours. I usually sleep 5.5-6 hours during the night and take a nap a few times a week when sleepy during the day. > This means that I’m gaining 33 days of life every year. 1 more year of life ever…

So what you are saying is that, just like me, in your 20s you were optimize for getting shit done and now, being older, you optimize for feeling good and don't care about doing as much and think that optimizing for doing earlier was a mistake for you. This is reasonable!

No. I am able to do much more now, now that I respect the signals my body is sending. Sometimes I have to force things, reality demands it, but generally I work with my body on any given day, not against it. The increase quality and amount of work is undeniable, generally and on average.

I can only imagine how much more capable I would be if I had had a better relationship with sleep and my body in general when I was younger, so the benefits of those behaviors could have compounded over a longer time frame.

Re: Theses on Sleep

#53
post #51

Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll

>Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll I wholeheartedly agree. Similarly, people outside of astrology shouldn't be criticizing astrology.

Hey, be careful with that criticism there. I don't know that you are in the same field as ninesnines

Re: Theses on Sleep

#54
post #51

Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll

>Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. eye roll I wholeheartedly agree. Similarly, people outside of astrology shouldn't be criticizing astrology.

Everyone is able to criticize anyone. Which is why people are criticizing your blog post.

Re: Theses on Sleep

#55
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of mine did that. Burned her house down, killed her pets (fish), and barely survived herself. She now recommends not leaving candles burning unattended. There might be a battery-powered candle-like LED thing that gets the same results.

LEDs are counter productive to sleep. The solution here would be a safe candleholder that is able to be left unattended without setting fires.

If it's a dim LED with just red light or maybe just red and orange then it's probably just as good, no?

Re: Theses on Sleep

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LEDs are counter productive to sleep. The solution here would be a safe candleholder that is able to be left unattended without setting fires.

If it's a dim LED with just red light or maybe just red and orange then it's probably just as good, no?

The flickering will be there no matter the color. Red ones will be better than white or blue ones, but that's it. They still have the opposite of a relaxing effect.

Re: Theses on Sleep

#57
> Think about sleep 10,000 years ago. You sleep in a cave, in a hut, or under the sky, with predators and enemy tribes roaming around. You are on a wooden floor, on an animal’s skin, or on the ground.

I would argue that some of my best nights were during outdoor survival situations where I slept in small shelters that kept my warmth and on a hard surface.

Personally, the sound of a familiar bird species will lull me to sleep. Birds sing when it's safe. Silence in nature is when you should worry.

Having slept on bear skins, those are surprisingly comfortable. That's why it's such a trope in romance. You can easily fall asleep on one and be comfortable all night. Throw in a few friends and you have got a cozy experience. Three people will keep a bed very warm even without heating to the point where you must open windows and get rid of covers.

Have we forgotten that our species has used fire as a tool for at least 2 million years? Usually, a fire would be kept going all night which would keep the camping ground dry and warm.

Has the author ever slept in the wild? Birds waking you? If this held true, no one would be able to sleep in rural areas.

This thesis seems to extrapolate a lot without paying attention to the details. It presents ideas as common sense and proceeds to mislead the reader through cherry-picked information that is a prime example of the confirmation bias.

Re: Theses on Sleep

#59
How does your essay explain that I feel horrible for 2-3 hours after waking up if I don't get enough sleep?

I don't just mean feeling a little slow. I am physically sick to the point of being unable to eat food, having a headache (not every time) and not being able to process information (e.g. reading an email 2-3 times and still not comprehending it fully).

Is this a unique reaction?

Re: Theses on Sleep

#60

> Think about sleep 10,000 years ago. You sleep in a cave, in a hut, or under the sky, with predators and enemy tribes roaming around. You are on a wooden floor, on an animal’s skin, or on the ground. I would argue that some of my best nights were during outdoor survival situations where I slept in small shelters that kept my warmth and on a hard surface. Personally, the sound of a familiar bird species will lull me…

Hunter gatherers supposedly sleep less and get upt before dawn, those behaviour patterns are our best bet for what the past sleeping cycles were.
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