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People say that you'll die / faster than without water

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:01:28 -0800

No one really knows exactly why we need so much sleep, but it seems obvious that many of us aren't getting enough. Tu veux coucher avec moi? I'm bushed.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:01:39 -0800

Previously

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:11:55 -0800

I like the suggestion that sleep may be used by the brain to forget stuff.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:49:02 -0800

I think it's good to practice being unconscious a lot so that we'll be really great at it when we die.

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:49:43 -0800

I think we're all probably equally good at that, hermitosis.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:05:55 -0800

I think it should be "Veux-tu coucher avec moi?" Sorry, I'm cranky, not enough sleep.

By: chlorus

chlorus — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:18:30 -0800

Nice Arcade Fire reference.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:24:22 -0800

I think it should be "Veux-tu coucher avec moi?" Or "Est-ce que tu veux coucher avec moi?" Ditto on the sleep.

By: tarheelcoxn

tarheelcoxn — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:38:51 -0800

Thanks for the reminder. Good post. Wish I could go back to bed now.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:43:04 -0800

I got the French from a wiki page. That was probably my first mistake. Sadly six years of French in HS/college did little to actually teach me French.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:59:53 -0800

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Huh? Oh, wait... what?

By: kozad

kozad — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:05:36 -0800

Shakespeare said it best, through the soon to be sleep-deprived Macbeth: "Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, The death of each day's lfe, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."

By: Gungho

Gungho — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:29:40 -0800

"Eyes in the dark. One moon circles." I can't sleep, that's all I know..."Eyes in the dark. One moon circles.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:19:12 -0800

My baby slept through the night for the first time last night (happy Mothers' Day!). I got a solid six hours of uninterrupted sleep -- by far the best sleep I've had in over a year. That's right, I'm bragging about how much I slept last night. Uh-huh.

By: TypographicalError

TypographicalError — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:22:59 -0800

I think it should be "Veux-tu coucher avec moi?" Or "Est-ce que tu veux coucher avec moi?" These are both correct, but saying "Tu veux coucher avec moi?" with the proper inflection is no more confusing to Jacques Doe than saying, "You're going to sleep with me?" would be to John Doe.

By: TypographicalError

TypographicalError — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:23:47 -0800

Or, rather, "You want to sleep with me?" Too early. grumblegrumble

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:30:41 -0800

We sleep approximately 1/3 of our lives. Therefore, I motion that 1/3 of MeFi should now be devoted to talkiNG ABOUT SLEep.

By: altolinguistic

altolinguistic — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:43:38 -0800

your French is fine - that's a standard question formation. Sleep is nice.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:59:26 -0800

Our brains are the most complex computational devices in the world, but they have worse uptime figures than Windows ME. It's probably good that they do all their indexing during downtime, imagine how stupider we would be if we indexed in realtime?

By: jefgodesky

jefgodesky — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:59:47 -0800

Idle Theory, survival of the idlest.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:06:44 -0800

Tu veux coucher avec moi? Gitcha gitcha ya-ya mama. Gitcha gitcha ya-ya here.

By: iamck

iamck — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:13:43 -0800

As a finely unemployed citizen, I just want to let you all know I just slept around 14 hours.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:26:56 -0800

As a finely unemployed citizen, I just want to suggest popping a caffeine pill when your alarm goes off. Getting up at the same time each day is a great habit to have.

By: sponge

sponge — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:50:54 -0800

without amphetamines, no one has ever stated awake for more than 11 days. another page claims its 18 days, but this is unsubstantiated. its funny that humans have such a fundamental, and overlooked, limitation such as the need for sleep

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:56:35 -0800

Didnt someone write about how sleep may be the default state for animals and wakefulness is an aberration we need to do such things as find shelter, eat, etc? I believe so. I love this idea because now we can honestly ask "How many hours of wakefulness do I need?" as opposed to 'How many hours of sleep do I need?"

By: teece

teece — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:07:21 -0800

I recently read a research press release about "big picture" learning (maybe even linked up there: nope, don't see it). The gist was that details could be learned in a day, but connections and big picture stuff were better understood after studying the details and parts, and sleeping on it. I've been trying this out over the last couple weeks, as I'm studying a lot. And it really works. I understand how all of the concepts I'm learning link together and relate, the next sleep cycle after I really grokked the smaller-scale concept. It's a fascinating thing, this sleep. Oh, here is the link. I knew those web clippings in DevonNote would come in handy at some point.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:15:27 -0800

Fortunately, my cat understands the need for sleep. Well, his, anyway. In the morning he understands the need for breakfast.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:27:59 -0800

Excellent link, teece.

By: Haruspex

Haruspex — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:33:49 -0800

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go."*

By: yoHighness

yoHighness — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:32:49 -0800

Teece: Same here, much profiting from similar paper I read (different study making people learn stuff, the people who got enough sleep could remember more next day) ... Sorry, no Notes app, lost bookmarks, no link. The DevonNotes website, behind a link called "You use a Windows PC but you want to run our applications?" is telling me I ought to buy a Mac and Windows emulator --- By the way, anybody else find that seriously packed e.g. academic, philosophical, .. type writing gives you kind of "decompressing data..." type power naps? (Yeah... No, I'm not talking about Escapist naps...Sheesh.)