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If there is something I deeply wish for, it is for the power to ignore sleep. Every minute slept is a great loss. A good night's sleep means you're not working

If there is something I deeply wish for, it is for the power to ignore sleep. Every minute slept is a great loss. A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough.

majewsky 10y ago
By the same logic, you should regret the time spent eating, but the food ingestion provides you with the fuel to actually get these brain cells to work. Sleep is similarly important: During sleep, mandatory maintenance is performed on the brain cells (both on the biochemical and on the informational level), as far as science knows (or conjectures).
Kristine1975 10y ago
Here, have this /s you dropped.
brixon 10y ago
A bad night's sleep means you will have to work harder for the same result the next day.
venomsnake 10y ago
Are you sure? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/insomnia-that-kills/384841/ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/insomnia-t... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
- nalllar 10y ago
  Missing the point. The power to ignore sleep would be pointless if it came with the downsides. If I could lose the need to sleep, without any adverse health effects? Awesome. It's a shame that that's not currently possible.
  - goda90 10y ago
    It'd be interesting if we genetically engineered or something, a way to sleep half our brain kind of like dolphins. 8 hours of half brainpower. Though honestly, if you are doing things that take a lot of thinking, your brain is often doing some work still while you sleep.
    - npongratz 10y ago
      I know we're talking hypothetical science fiction here, but assuming each hemisphere requires eight hours of sleep, wouldn't that total 16 hours of half brainpower per day?
  - hyperpape 10y ago
    This sounds like a nice idea, but can I also have a pony? http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/01/13/ http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/01/13/ Why stop there? You could teleport, postpone eating indefinitely, never have to expel wastes, never age, be invulnerable, and think faster!
    - nalllar 10y ago
      > Why stop there? You could teleport, postpone eating indefinitely, never have to expel wastes, never age, be invulnerable, and think faster! Sounds great, sign me up!
Razengan 10y ago
I would rather have sleep pods. Things that instantly shut your body down as much as safely possible, make a backup of your memory, perform any necessary repairs (including anti-aging), inject you with highly efficient nutrients, and you're good to go for an entire week before needing sleep again.
RankingMember 10y ago
"Every minute slept is a great loss" I'm thinking you're being sarcastic, but if not, there's nothing you're doing that's going to be done more productively by being sleep-deprived.
- mamon 10y ago
  No, I think he wasn't sarcastic at all. The fact is that we waste 1/3 of our life sleeping. Find a way to stay healthy and well rested without sleep and you basically added 25 years to human lifespan.
LionessLover 10y ago
"How Sleep Clears the Brain" (literally, actual "stuff" is removed) https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sleep-clears-brain https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...
damptowel 10y ago
> A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough. That seems that you buy into one belief system (work is sacred, achievement is the goal in life, etc...) and project that onto others.

If there is something I deeply wish for, it is for the power to ignore sleep. Every minute slept is a great loss. A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough.

majewsky 10y ago

By the same logic, you should regret the time spent eating, but the food ingestion provides you with the fuel to actually get these brain cells to work. Sleep is similarly important: During sleep, mandatory maintenance is performed on the brain cells (both on the biochemical and on the informational level), as far as science knows (or conjectures).

Kristine1975 10y ago

Here, have this /s you dropped.

brixon 10y ago

A bad night's sleep means you will have to work harder for the same result the next day.

venomsnake 10y ago

Are you sure? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/insomnia-that-kills/384841/ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/insomnia-t... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

nalllar 10y ago
Missing the point. The power to ignore sleep would be pointless if it came with the downsides. If I could lose the need to sleep, without any adverse health effects? Awesome. It's a shame that that's not currently possible.
- goda90 10y ago
  It'd be interesting if we genetically engineered or something, a way to sleep half our brain kind of like dolphins. 8 hours of half brainpower. Though honestly, if you are doing things that take a lot of thinking, your brain is often doing some work still while you sleep.
  - npongratz 10y ago
    I know we're talking hypothetical science fiction here, but assuming each hemisphere requires eight hours of sleep, wouldn't that total 16 hours of half brainpower per day?
- hyperpape 10y ago
  This sounds like a nice idea, but can I also have a pony? http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/01/13/ http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/01/13/ Why stop there? You could teleport, postpone eating indefinitely, never have to expel wastes, never age, be invulnerable, and think faster!
  - nalllar 10y ago
    > Why stop there? You could teleport, postpone eating indefinitely, never have to expel wastes, never age, be invulnerable, and think faster! Sounds great, sign me up!

Razengan 10y ago

I would rather have sleep pods. Things that instantly shut your body down as much as safely possible, make a backup of your memory, perform any necessary repairs (including anti-aging), inject you with highly efficient nutrients, and you're good to go for an entire week before needing sleep again.

RankingMember 10y ago

"Every minute slept is a great loss" I'm thinking you're being sarcastic, but if not, there's nothing you're doing that's going to be done more productively by being sleep-deprived.

mamon 10y ago
No, I think he wasn't sarcastic at all. The fact is that we waste 1/3 of our life sleeping. Find a way to stay healthy and well rested without sleep and you basically added 25 years to human lifespan.

LionessLover 10y ago

"How Sleep Clears the Brain" (literally, actual "stuff" is removed) https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sleep-clears-brain https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...

damptowel 10y ago

> A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough. That seems that you buy into one belief system (work is sacred, achievement is the goal in life, etc...) and project that onto others.