Posted on 01/16/2005 3:03:17 AM PST by The Raven
Nothing doing! Sleep is good. More sleep is better.
Looks like a Yuppy drug. "...I can stay awake in meetings now without my boss nudging me to wake me up"
But is it addicitng?
Looks like it would be good for troops under certain circumstances.
Yep----see here
It's Sunday. I should be asleep. Old age and a steady body clock.
I fly on the back side of the clock continously. This sounds good but until the FAA approves it for commercial pilots we won't be seeing it. Too bad, we could sure use it!
>>I fly on the back side of the clock continously
I'm probably in the plane
Artificial energy. Used in moderation, to cut back sleep time by 2 hours, it might be benign.
If you don't get enough sleep, your brain is unable to run the equivalent of defragmenter, which means that your mind starts running slower and slower, taking more time to access data, system response suffers, and pretty soon you find that it takes all morning just to boot up.
Provigil?
Maybe for others, but not for me, thank you very much.
This is irresponsible and typical for today's medical and drug community. Anything to sell a drug and the doctors are willing accomplices.
LOL! Wouldn't you want the pilot wide awake?
Would this drug show up in testing? If a Marine were tested for drugs would this get him kicked out of the Corps?
Didn't they just find that the less sleep people get the fatter they are? The question becomes, "Sure you can dance all night, but who wants to dance with you, Fatso?" I can see these drugs being a big hit on the internet, though.
Sleeping....eating....I dunno which I like more.....
Oh, goodness.
No thanks.
I live on here as it is.
Thankfully, I sleep when I'm sleepy and FREEP between other duties--which, thankfully--means a LOT of FREEPING.
But I love my sleep. I just get it in 2-3 jumps.
Oh, goodness.
No thanks.
I live on here as it is.
Thankfully, I sleep when I'm sleepy and FREEP between other duties--which, thankfully--means a LOT of FREEPING.
But I love my sleep. I just get it in 2-3 jumps.
'A California lawyer had no medical reason to take the drug, but he did have a common complaint: "I work 10 to 14 hours a day, so I would have no personal life if I didn't sacrifice some sleep," he told an online support group. He now takes Provigil four times a day. "At the right dosage," he reported online, "this wonder drug is really great."'
In other words, he wasn't getting enough action. Pathetic; what other chemicals is he taking to "enhance" his lifestyle?
What the article conveniently doesn't say, is that there is a large variation in the requirement for sleep among individuals. A significant portion of the population does very well on four hours of sleep a night. A very small, but measurable number, do very well on one hour of sleep per day. Thomas Edison, for example needed very little sleep, generally getting only a couple of cat naps.
The point of all this is that since we *know* that some people live long and healthy lives with very little sleep, it is not inherent in human biology to require 8 hours of sleep for health. Perhaps only 4 hours is necessary, perhaps only 1 hour.
I am all for the technological advances that would allow me to safely regulate the amount of sleep that I want. In some circumstances I might wish to sleep for 20 hours a day, in some 1 hour. I would love to have that choice, and I see no reason why it could not be possible some day.
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