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General => Common Topic Symposium => Topic started by: 7 on February 24, 2006 07:56 am CST
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64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973 and after that he never went to sleep again - not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.
http://www.rapidnewswire.com/sleepless.htm (http://www.rapidnewswire.com/sleepless.htm)
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That's allmost as funny as the guy that got caught having a cyber affair with APHEX LOLSSS!
Get the hell out of here you sick person! I'm surprised you showed your face back here,, even if it's been over a year now....GO ON! BE GONE WITH YE!!!
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That isn't even physically possible, based on every study done on the need for sleep to keep our brains working properly. He would have gotten mentally phatigued after about 50 hours, and only get worse and worse....
and dont say he's an evolutionary leap
and is that newspaper even a credible source? If this story were true, it would have been a huge story in the scientific community, and from there made it on to national news at least....
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I doubt it's real. Either the source or the person and the people around them are unreliable. Prolonged sleep deprivation has the ability to cause death. In this case, he would surely be dead. The brain will begin to deteriorate after some time without sleep.
However, at least one other source has it listed, but not that I know to be credible. The man would most likely be unfuctioning, even if he were to somehow, say, get past the fact of death. Learning cannot properly occur without sleep.
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That's allmost as funny as the guy that got caught having a cyber affair with APHEX LOLSSS!
Get the hell out of here you sick person! I'm surprised you showed your face back here,, even if it's been over a year now....GO ON! BE GONE WITH YE!!!
Who gives two malarkeys?
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If you hadn't made a post, acknowledging the little boy's post no one would have. Thanks for pointing it out and giving the little brat attention though.
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If you hadn't made a post, acknowledging the little boy's post no one would have. Thanks for pointing it out and giving the little brat attention though.
Who gives two malarkeys?
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Kids, play nice.
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Kids, play nice.
I'm not inclined and Dirk's not capable.
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Or we could pretend like this is an online forum and do what is done on online forums.
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agreed. move back to mexico dirk.
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First link of search, and even this comes up.
http://http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Ledoux.html
Seriously, sleep = 100% needed
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I believe it.. I'm sure at times he 'zones out' which people with insomnia do since they can't sleep. It's not that the brain needs sleep, but it needs a period of no use, or no processing. Think about it.. all you do when you sleep is not use your brain aside from subconscious activity which is constantly active whether you are sleeping or awake.
I think it's totally possible. The reason it's so bad for people without insomnia is because they can't cope with it since it's normally not a problem for them.. they just stay awake and continually use their brain till they either fall asleep or die.
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Actually 12Stones, I dont think that's quite correct (not trying to put you down) When you're asleep, the brain isn't neccisarily inactive. If anything, it's active in very different regions. When you sleep, your brain essentially collects everything that you saw, heard, and did during your wakening period and organizes it for biochemical memory storage...Think of it as defragging your hard drive (but actually doing something to help). Also, if your brain was not processing anything, chances are you wouldn't dream at all. And since scientists have found that dreaming is imperative to proper brain function, your brain obviously has to be doing some pretty important shat at night. But you are correct, in a sense, that our brain needs a period of non-processing..but only in a conscious sense. When our consciousness drifts out, our subconscious takes over.
also, remember the different stages of sleep. our brainwaves change drastically based on what stage of sleep we're in (the deepest of course being REM sleep)....Actually, looking back on it, the way we sleep is more like....its comparible to a dishwasher and it's different cycles...except we cycle through it about 4 or 5 times during sleep.
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Well as long as we're all pretending to be sleep experts, I saw a TV commercial about a bed that imrpoves sleep quality 33%.
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ogm is that, liek, teh matress that you can set your comfort level at? zomg mines 99.99999
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That has to be fake..
Sup 7
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Only 12044 days to go... >_<
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ogm is that, liek, teh matress that you can set your comfort level at? zomg mines 99.99999
dude fork that comfort zone mattress TEMPUR-PEDIC MATTRESS 4 LYFE
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thats the one made with space-age material isnt it.."Watch as kelly jumps up and down, and doesnt spill a drop!"
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I bet if we got like 500 people to order the free pamphlet and the small sample cube of tempur-pedic material, we could combine them and have a ghetto-pedic bed.. or better yet.. fill up a pool with them and go swimming..
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Ghettopedic. That must be the Sam's Choice alternative. =)
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I don't find the tempur-pedic mattress comfortable at all
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You wouldn't.
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I dunno, I don't think I would like the space age (funny that we still use that term...it applied more to the 60's and 70's than today) cracker-ass memory foam whatever the crap it is either. I'm more of a concrete slab with a pillow man, myself.
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it's not as comfortable as you'd think...it's as if it sucks you in.
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i get the feeling it would be hard to move around in bed. and isnt this technically the 'Information Age'? Thats the last one i heard...
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You don't get to name the age that you're in, though some people try.
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true, very true...i would call it the dead-end age
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I think Information Age is widely accepted as the current age.
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it's not as comfortable as you'd think...it's as if it sucks you in.
I bet that malarkey is hot, too.. like being wrapped in a blanket that you cant get out of..