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Potentially pointless anecdote: I've noticed sleep deprivation narrows my capacity for attention - to make an analogy with sight, it's like tunnel vision. As lo
by wonnage 14y ago
Potentially pointless anecdote: I've noticed sleep deprivation narrows my capacity for attention - to make an analogy with sight, it's like tunnel vision. As long as I have something to hold what's left of my attention span (e.g, work), I can't help but live in the moment, as I can't focus on (or even perceive, really) depressive thoughts at the same time.
- cLeEOGPw 14y agoMy theory is that before going to sleep different parts of the brain shut down not in one single moment, but at different moments. Therefore before sleep some parts of the brain is already sleeping. That would explain why so often ideas that seem good before sleep look silly when you wake up. As in this case, maybe before sleep parts of the brain that produce depression shut down sooner and "temporarily cures" the depression.
- opminion 14y agoMay I suggest that you measure that, even by your own definition on "parts of the brain" (perhaps a choice of unrelated cognitive functions?) in a way that allows you to make predictions?