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Wouldn’t it be cool if we could periodically trigger waves like this to refresh the brain and maybe require less (or no) sleep! I have no expertise in this are

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could periodically trigger waves like this to refresh the brain and maybe require less (or no) sleep! I have no expertise in this area I’m just a dreamer :)

d1sxeyes 3y ago
Dreamers have no problems here :)
vasco 3y ago
For companies it'd be a dream. 1/4 more awake time is 1/4 more time to buy stuff and watch content and ads. Or work longer hours. Gonna go back to sleep now.
- kyleyeats 3y ago
  Definitely get some sleep. Your post suggests you're getting less than five hours a night.
- samstave 3y ago
  the immediate use doesnt have to buy more shit. it could be used in endurance/focused events. high stress relief, traumatic brain injury - like immediate induce afte cte event in foot ball head trauma in car accident ODs etc... - When I was a baby, and I would get ill, my mom would calm me and put me to sleep - and I would sleep for an extended period and my mom would say that I would wake up fully well. If this could be induced in infants going through trauma's such as a surgery, where inducing natural brain-flush instead of pumping a tiny body full of "medicine" this might be great for their long term mental development outside of having medicines in them when growing extremely fast.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Sounds like a win-win. Let's say my discretionary spending is 30% of my income, it goes up by a third, and I need to work 10% longer hours. Okay, so I adjust to a 44 hour work week and I get an extra 30+ hours of free time? Great!
barkingcat 3y ago
the trigger could be like a sequence of flashes or certain pulsing of sound frequencies, it'd be like hacking the nervous system via unsanitized inputs
- foota 3y ago
  Have you read Snow Crash?
gitaarik 3y ago
Meditation?
_y5hn 3y ago
That's been in use for thousands of years already: yoga, pranayama and meditation. There are courses one can take where one learns this, like Art of Living and any other that follows the same traditions. Yes, there's research on that, and new studies should absolutely gain from this study. Not entirely sure you'll observe the same effect, that depends on meditator, but you can fall asleep during practice. I have over a decade experience with it, and have also participated on a study on breathing exercises and epigenetic effects from that versus blind control.
- zadler 3y ago
  Which exercises would you say trigger movement of cerebrospinal dluid in the brain?
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc
- mattlondon 3y ago
  I think the point of replacing sleep is to save time. Replacing hours of sleep with hours of yogo or mediation seems like you are not gaining anything.
  - gitaarik 3y ago
    Meditation is a practice, you practice to keep your mind "clean" and don't clutter it with unnecessary thoughts, worries, etc. If you master this skill, you will require less sleep. And then you don't have to be sitting on the floor all the time, you can just live your life without cluttering your mind all the time. So it is ultimately more efficient than cluttering your mind all day and then needing lots of sleep. But it does take some initial practicing time before you reach that state of mind. But with all things, if you put some effort in beforehand, you can reap a lot of gain afterwards. Doing this practice for about 20/30 minutes every morning can already quickly bring great improvement to your daily life. If done right that is. It's easy to do it wrong also, and then it can not bring any benefit. Sometimes it's necessary to first work out some traumas before you start a serious meditation practice. Sometimes meditation actually helps you work out traumas. It all depends on the person and situation. For some people guided meditation works great, other people rather just sit in silence. It doesn't really matter, as long as you find something that works for you. See it like exercising: you might think that spending time on exercising takes away time that you could spend on doing useful things. But it actually gives you better health, making you function better in your daily life. So it enables you to do things more efficiently. And you'll feel healthier, better, happier. So ultimately you gain from it.

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could periodically trigger waves like this to refresh the brain and maybe require less (or no) sleep! I have no expertise in this area I’m just a dreamer :)

d1sxeyes 3y ago

Dreamers have no problems here :)

vasco 3y ago

For companies it'd be a dream. 1/4 more awake time is 1/4 more time to buy stuff and watch content and ads. Or work longer hours. Gonna go back to sleep now.

kyleyeats 3y ago
Definitely get some sleep. Your post suggests you're getting less than five hours a night.
samstave 3y ago
the immediate use doesnt have to buy more shit. it could be used in endurance/focused events. high stress relief, traumatic brain injury - like immediate induce afte cte event in foot ball head trauma in car accident ODs etc... - When I was a baby, and I would get ill, my mom would calm me and put me to sleep - and I would sleep for an extended period and my mom would say that I would wake up fully well. If this could be induced in infants going through trauma's such as a surgery, where inducing natural brain-flush instead of pumping a tiny body full of "medicine" this might be great for their long term mental development outside of having medicines in them when growing extremely fast.
Dylan16807 3y ago
Sounds like a win-win. Let's say my discretionary spending is 30% of my income, it goes up by a third, and I need to work 10% longer hours. Okay, so I adjust to a 44 hour work week and I get an extra 30+ hours of free time? Great!

barkingcat 3y ago

the trigger could be like a sequence of flashes or certain pulsing of sound frequencies, it'd be like hacking the nervous system via unsanitized inputs

foota 3y ago
Have you read Snow Crash?

gitaarik 3y ago

Meditation?

_y5hn 3y ago

That's been in use for thousands of years already: yoga, pranayama and meditation. There are courses one can take where one learns this, like Art of Living and any other that follows the same traditions. Yes, there's research on that, and new studies should absolutely gain from this study. Not entirely sure you'll observe the same effect, that depends on meditator, but you can fall asleep during practice. I have over a decade experience with it, and have also participated on a study on breathing exercises and epigenetic effects from that versus blind control.

zadler 3y ago
Which exercises would you say trigger movement of cerebrospinal dluid in the brain?
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc
mattlondon 3y ago
I think the point of replacing sleep is to save time. Replacing hours of sleep with hours of yogo or mediation seems like you are not gaining anything.
- gitaarik 3y ago
  Meditation is a practice, you practice to keep your mind "clean" and don't clutter it with unnecessary thoughts, worries, etc. If you master this skill, you will require less sleep. And then you don't have to be sitting on the floor all the time, you can just live your life without cluttering your mind all the time. So it is ultimately more efficient than cluttering your mind all day and then needing lots of sleep. But it does take some initial practicing time before you reach that state of mind. But with all things, if you put some effort in beforehand, you can reap a lot of gain afterwards. Doing this practice for about 20/30 minutes every morning can already quickly bring great improvement to your daily life. If done right that is. It's easy to do it wrong also, and then it can not bring any benefit. Sometimes it's necessary to first work out some traumas before you start a serious meditation practice. Sometimes meditation actually helps you work out traumas. It all depends on the person and situation. For some people guided meditation works great, other people rather just sit in silence. It doesn't really matter, as long as you find something that works for you. See it like exercising: you might think that spending time on exercising takes away time that you could spend on doing useful things. But it actually gives you better health, making you function better in your daily life. So it enables you to do things more efficiently. And you'll feel healthier, better, happier. So ultimately you gain from it.