Comments on: “How To Hack Your Brain” http://whippleworld.com/2009/06/26/how-to-hack-your-brain/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:16:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John http://whippleworld.com/2009/06/26/how-to-hack-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-72979 John Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:09:32 +0000 http://whippleworld.com/?p=10011#comment-72979 Yes, I understand the benefits of the catapult project - clean. But the benefit of the bear method is that the bear would wander off under it's own steam but the catapult would just sit there and have to covered with a tarp. We'd have to stand it front of it and say "what catapult?" "Oh, so trailing off into the distance the neighbors heard, "I'm gonna get you Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavvvvvviiiiiiiidddd! I don't know what you're talking about." Yes, I understand the benefits of the catapult project – clean. But the benefit of the bear method is that the bear would wander off under it’s own steam but the catapult would just sit there and have to covered with a tarp. We’d have to stand it front of it and say “what catapult?” “Oh, so trailing off into the distance the neighbors heard, “I’m gonna get you Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavvvvvviiiiiiiidddd! I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

]]> By: David Priest http://whippleworld.com/2009/06/26/how-to-hack-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-72965 David Priest Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:49:29 +0000 http://whippleworld.com/?p=10011#comment-72965 Well I read the blog link on polyphasic sleep and all I can say is: No no no no no no no no!!!!!! There is actually a great deal of very exciting and amazing data about the neurological basis of sleep. Recent experimental results indicate that Stages 1 and 2 are very essential for problem solving and thus for survival. REM is now known to be several processes, including consolidation of short term to long term memory. And lot's of tissue repair is now thought to take place in Stage 3 sleep. Also, growth hormones are secreted at specific times of the night in growing kids. So trying to run on REM only would only work by building up REM pressure through sleep deprivation, which can also result in waking hallucinations (REM breakthrough while awake) and micro sleeps (involuntary lapses into sleep). In other words, "Don't try this at home kids!" That said, I strongly support the bears in the woods experiment, as long as I am the observer and not the subject. And what about our catapult project? Well I read the blog link on polyphasic sleep and all I can say is:

No no no no no no no no!!!!!!

There is actually a great deal of very exciting and amazing data about the neurological basis of sleep. Recent experimental results indicate that Stages 1 and 2 are very essential for problem solving and thus for survival. REM is now known to be several processes, including consolidation of short term to long term memory. And lot’s of tissue repair is now thought to take place in Stage 3 sleep. Also, growth hormones are secreted at specific times of the night in growing kids.

So trying to run on REM only would only work by building up REM pressure through sleep deprivation, which can also result in waking hallucinations (REM breakthrough while awake) and micro sleeps (involuntary lapses into sleep).

In other words, “Don’t try this at home kids!”

That said, I strongly support the bears in the woods experiment, as long as I am the observer and not the subject. And what about our catapult project?

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