Thread: Sakata Gintoki's Workbook

I know about that, but saying "scientists are actually trying to reduce our sleep even more (by cutting out unnecessary?! parts" makes it sound like some kind of evil plot I don't know how it started and you can do some Googling if you are interested, it's called polyphasic sleep. The most extreme version is called the übermensch and you have a 20-minute nap every 4 hours. 6 Naps in total so just 2 hours of sleep a day, that is the only sleep you get. There are bloggers doing it and reporting on their expieriences. I read that this idea of napping a few times during the day to sleep less but still function originated from the millitary where they were forced to use such methods under extreme circumstances. There are many variations and Wikipedia has some good info. Being born in a healthy body is the greatest luxury a human can have and you shouldn't screw with the natural processes. If you use just a tiny fraction of this beautiful machine between your ears anyobody should know that living like this is absolutely useless unless you want to ruin your health and your life, in which case I highly recommend this method xD

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Here's a rant, it's good to rant once in a while..
I think it's ridiculous for people to think that this is healthy.. Sleeping less and being more productive by using some crazy new method, are you kidding me? The human body is an incredibly complex machine, a single muscle fiber, a single cell has so many profound details and complexities which are quite beautiful to me. Even what I learned in biology class which barely scratched the surface of this complexity makes me realize this. And the brain? Did you know that the brain contains about 80 billion neurons, a single neuron having 1.000 to 10.000 connections or "cables" to other neurons? Every cable has a different strength, depending on how often it is used. In a ted talk I heard that not a single neuron is the same. Also that the computing power of a single neuron is roughly equal to the computing power of an average laptop. Can you even imagine this complexity? I can't, I can only let my jaw drop by thinking about it. Sometimes, when washing my hands I look at it and notice all the movement in my body, from my fingertips to my knuckles, the inside of my hand, the wrist joint, forearm, elbow, upper arm, shoulderblades, I even feel the involvement of my lower back muscles, abs, obligues. All moving dynamically and smoothly, perfectly coördinated, all just to wash your hands, to rub your hands over one another. There are so many tiny muscle fibers which are filled with tiny little endings of cables coming from the nervous system, each little ending capable of putting out electrical signals of varying degrees of strength and length of time, each tiny little muscle fiber has to be moved in such a way that it enables the movement of a certain body part in a certain direction, but this is not enough, because the body parts are moving and therefor the movement is in a slightly different speed, angle and strength for fraction of a second. To coördinate this kind of movement with so many body parts moving and acting at the same time is quite an unbelievable process to me. But this is not everything, because we are not even thinking about how to wash our hands, we are seeing in the mirror how we look, thinking thoughts, feeling the soap and the water, processing emotions. It's a shame that some people don't seem to appreciate this beauty. Getting caught up in things like what other people might think and (more importantly) say about you, pride, money, it's so silly. Just appreciate and enjoy the simple joys in life, damn it! Take a deep breath, do some meditation, have some good food, hear some violin music , share some laughs and watch some silly videos on Youtube..

Sleep provides not only rest for the whole body, but it's the only time the brian ever gets real rest, though meditation seems to do a great job too. This amazing machine needs to function optimally!! To play with something as profound as sleep is ridiculous. No matter how poor I get or how little time I have for the rest of life, taking 10 hours out of my day to prepare for sleep, sleep, and slowly wake up from sleep will be the last luxury I'll give up.
Here is an interesting video, it explains the cleansing process that takes place during sleep.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I am quite sleepy right now and should have gone to bed about 3-4 hours earlier. And even though I can sleep all day and will get 9-10 hours of sleep, somehow my quality of sleep seems to get reduced if I am still sleeping after about 10AM.