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What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Like How Computers Stay Sane
- bananacurve 13y ago>And you may have noticed now that your iPhone supports background processing it reboots a lot more often? Are phones spontaneously rebooting?
- dsirijus 13y agoWell, when you stretch a metaphore this far, you have to lie some.
- aaronpk 13y agomine does. usually while doing something like switching active apps when one is using the camera.
- alok-g 13y agoSure. My older Android phone even wiped out data spontaneously (showing a message to me that it is doing so, without choice or warning).
- reeses 13y agoYes, but the nice thing about iOS 7 is that it reboots much faster.
- nmb 13y agoYup. :(
- ars 13y agoI thought she meant that the background apps are constantly restarted - which they are.
- greenbee 13y ago> Without access to spinal fluid or nicely chunked pieces of garbage like molecules I would be really worried if I started clearing nicely chunked pieces of garbage like things in my sleep.
- dijit 13y agothese two things are not comparable- computers tend to reboot due to 'cosmic rays', cruft left behind by poorly written applications, or, more commonly, nvidia drivers. my brain goes down to sleep at night to commit and file my memories of the day, for area's to be selectively cleaned, for the brain and body in general to consume less energy and last longer/heal. I can't hit a reboot button, it's not defrag- it's a complicated required process for living in a human skin.
- thatthatis 13y agoA simple and compelling reason to meditate is that it can function like a reboot button for your brain. Moreso, in my experience, than sleep.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoSorry, but 10-15 minutes of napping is nothing like what meditation can deliver, even at 3 to 5 times the time invested. Sleep does so many positive things its hard to fully understand how great it is for us.
- thatthatis 13y agoWhat are you sorry about? Nothing you've said directly or indirectly contradicts what I said as far as I can tell.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoMy point is that its incredibly inefficient and bringing it up in an article about sleep seems like typical New Age evangelism to me. While there are certainly some benefits to it, its nothing like taking a nap.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoAnyone: How true is that?
- espeed 13y agoSleep also plays a part in synaptic conditioning -- it's when the brain prunes itself by separating signal from noise... "Sleep researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health believe it is more evidence for their theory of 'synaptic homeostasis.' This is the idea that synapses grow stronger when we're awake as we learn and adapt to an ever-changing the environment, that sleep refreshes the brain by bringing synapses back to a lower level of strength. This is important because larger synapses consume a lot of energy, occupy more space and require more supplies, including the proteins examined in this study." "Sleep — by allowing synaptic downscaling — saves energy, space and material, and clears away unnecessary 'noise' from the previous day, the researchers believe. The fresh brain is then ready to learn again in the morning" (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143455.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143455.ht...).
- X4 13y agoThe whole article is flawed.