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It's 'cause the internet has shifted the capacity of our brains away from deep focus and towards shallow multitasking. It's why we do shit like close Reddit on our computers then pull out our phones and open Reddit again without thinking about it. If you're really curious to learn more about it, try to stay focused long enough and read The Shallows; If you're really interested in pushing back then look into meditation.
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. This book will scare you into sleeping more.
There is also a great Joe Rogan interview with the author. Everyone should watch it.
You really should pick up Why We Sleep before you decide. Pretty good evidence that there are serious detrimental long term effects on losing even little bits of sleep. Be careful.
The Internet is a dangerous drug. Don't underestimate the way it can mess with your brain. There is a book on the subject called The Shallows, What the Internet is doing to our brains that discussed this.
Like with any addiction, some people are more likely to get trapped. But knowing the risks and taking it seriously is the first step. And then with any addiction you have to cut yourself off. A therapist that is experienced with this could really help if you find you are unable to manage it on your own.
I think perhaps you need to do more research into Cognitive Functions as it seems you have taken a gut reaction to them being wrong simply on the basis that they are too limiting, and by interpreting the functions in the crudest sense. The functions work together, at different levels for every individual. Put simply personality changes based on the order each function is being used, and how much of a function is being used in the time you are using it. We all have each function, some we use more than others. Think of the functions like different songs being played on the radio, each song is always playing but you can't listen to them all loudly at the same time, you have to mute, or turn down certain songs in order to enjoy the music you prefer the most. Sometimes you might be in a mood for a different song than the 2 you most commonly listen to, so you adjust the volume and focus on a different order in your preferences.
I've been reading the below book lately, perhaps you mind find interesting information within?
Nope... Dehumanizing people and feeding tribalism with fear have been scientifically proven to incite violent behaviour
Here is one of the many books on the subject (the one I happened to have read)
Also, I am not trying to "score partisan points"... I am not registered or affiliated with any political party and have very often explained how, in my personal view, all politicians are to be distrusted... It does happen I have a particularly high level of dislike of the type of rhetoric the far-right is absolutely pushing
Really glad this situation ended well.
Driving while tired is worse than DUI. DUI causes delayed reflections, driving tired you have micro sleep events.
Read this book: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501144316/
Read Why we sleep by Matthew Walker. He's a sleep researcher and covered this topic extensively. There are also tips on how to improve sleeping quality (such as regular schedule, avoiding blue light and screens, avoiding alcohol, etc)
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
Robert Sapolsky's new book Behave shits on Peterson's new book. Robert's book is probably the best book I've bought in my entire life. Seriously, I open it and learn something new everyday. If Robert and Jordan ever "debated" I guarantee that Robert would make Jordan look like Kathy Newman.
No one can survive on 4 hours of sleep or even 6, at least not without dire consequences later in life. If you haven't heard of Matthew Walker's work and his book Why We Sleep I highly recommend you check it out. He's been on a bunch of podcasts too, my favorite was on an episode of Dr Rhonda Patrick's Found My Fitness podcast. Please do yourself and your future health a favor and get your 8. You deserve it!
I just read Mathew Walker’s excellent book “why we sleep.”
It’s an excellent read and will change the way you think about sleep. Highly recommended.
Congrats on getting up with the alarm but I can't help but think your difficulty getting up is because of some problems that aren't being addressed.
It could be a bunch of things:
The amount of blue light you're receiving from screens before going to bed, which signals a part of your brain to push your circadian rhythm (which controls release of various hormones related to sleep) back as it still thinks the sun is out. Wearing blue spectrum light blocking glasses when I get home helps me be dead tired when my bedtime comes.
Various sleep hygiene musts like a pitch black room (no charging lights, no digital clock, no nothing), cold room temperature, and no noise (do you wear earplugs or do you even need to?)
Timing your sleep cycles to wake up in the light-sleep stage 1 cycle instead of the heavy sleep stages 3 or 4. These later stages have much more sleep inertia and are harder to shake off upon waking.
Because you say that it doesn't matter how much sleep / when you go to bed, I'm wondering if something is interfering with the restorative stages of your sleep cycle. Does your fitbit have sleep tracking on it? If so, what are you clocking in at for each stage?
If you REALLY want to take care of this problem, you should grab this book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
It is absolutely one of the most interesting and insightful (and no pseudoscience) books I have read. If anyone is having problems sleeping or would like to know more in depth about the benefits of getting enough sleep (and concrete health risks of the opposite), I would buy this book and devour it!
I was just listening to the interview with Matthew Walker on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's a neuroscientist and sleep expert and the information he shared on the effects of sleep deficit were really shocking.
Link to the book - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
I listened to a podcast with Matthew Walker, the author of Why We Sleep which then lead me to buy the audiobook. One of the first things he talks about in the book is that whether we’re a night owl or morning lark is largely determined by genetics. So, the fact that you have a hard time waking up early is likely going to be hard to change, unfortunately.
The podcast was with Joe Rogan. . It’s quite a good listen!
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Cephalopods have the most developed nervous systems and brains of any invertebrate. They really do deserve special legal protection, especially w.r.t. experiments in scientific studies.
A particularly interesting book on the topic, if you care to read it is Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Despite the title, the book covers cephalopods in general.
In Sapolsky's new book Behave, Robert talks about hormones and how much of what we think of serotonin and testosterone is misleading. It is contradictory to what Jordan thinks or argues.
For example, many people think increasing testosterone leads to increasing aggression. This is false. Increasing testosterone leads to behavior that is needed to maintain your place in the social-hierarchy, regardless of if it's violence, empathy, etc. This means that if your society rewards pacifism, you rise up the social hierarchy because of your generosity. Increasing testosterone will increase your altruism, not aggression. Give a community of pacifist monks a shot of testosterone and you will have them running around trying to out-do each other by being the nicest monk in the community.
This is antithetical to Jordan's view that social hierarchy is inevitable and a product of human nature. Since humans have historically fought nature, having the strength to overcome and master nature was the historical modus operandi. However, since we have now evolved as a species with urbanization, the industrial revolution, and the division of labor, our battle is no longer against nature, but against ourselves. Therefore, we are no longer in a battle for dominance against nature, but against ourselves, which does not need to happen anymore if we as a species decided we would no longer reward dominant, aggressive, social-hierarchy-enhancing behavior.
This book does a really good job of explaining the impact of less than 7 hours of sleep a night (TLDR it will kill you early)
Here's a metastudy with many (many) footnotes on sleep duration and mortality.
Just for longevity, this makes sleep at least as important as exercise for mortality.
(Source: I work in the sleep industry)
Yeah, one of these things is not like the others. Just the first few pages of Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep makes that clear. Don't know whether it's a year-long project, but of the items on the list it merits top priority.
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Some light reading for you. You can feel however you wish.
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The answer as it stands now: locking in new memories and skills, moving short term memories to long term, and cleanup of waste materials from the brain.
Would like to know about your paper. I am a neuro optometrist who treats patients with this condition and also lectures to other doctors about it. While it has a number of names, we now like to call it unilateral spatial inattention (USI) as it's not purposeful neglect. It can also present in systems other than visual processing. Check out Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran. He's been researching this for at least 30 years.
I found that Matthew Walker (neuroscientist and psychologist) and his sleep studies helped me understand the importance of sleep greatly! Perhaps you might want to check him out. I don't know what the general consensus on Joe Rogan here is, but here is an interesting episode where he was on his show. Also, his book, Why We Sleep is pretty interesting.
Or maybe if you want to effectively care for your patients, start having great time management skills. I don't have to elaborate more on the effects of having less than 6 hours of sleep daily on a person's brain, more with 2-3 hours. You could re-read your notes on Neuroscience on that one. Or you could read Matthew Walker's book, Why We Sleep. Let us not pat the backs of people who have poor systems then reason this out with "they just study too much because they care about their patient's health". Let us also not picture it as the supposed norm in med school because this paints a false reality to future med students. Rather, let us promote a culture in our med schools that motivates students to strategically plan out their days. You don't have to lose sleep, risk your self of various health diseases and decline in cognitive function for losing such to be able to take care of patients. "I will sleep when I die" mentality should not be idolized. :)
Check out the book Descartes Error. He goes into the split-brain studies, and yes, two distinct consciousnesses do seem to form.
I read this book 2-3 years ago "The Brain That Changes itself Self" super fascinating all about neuroplasticity and how the brain can re-wire itself. One chapter talked about porn regarding people losing their jobs, relationships, social life etc. Because of porn, it can also lead to impotence. I will just take some quotes:
> [A 2001study] found that 80 percent felt they were spending so much time on pornographic sites that they were putting their relationships or jobs at risk.
>When I asked if this phenomenon had any relationship to viewing pornography, they answered that it initially helped them get more excited during sex but over time had the opposite effect. Now, instead of using their senses to enjoy being in bed, in the present, with their partners, lovemaking increasingly required them to fantasize that they were part of a porn script.
I can't suggest this book enough. My recommendation would be to combine through that chapter if you are interested.
EDIT: This book is on amazon and is well worth the cash side note I realized when I ordered it was in 2012....time is strange
This atheist thinks free will is a vague term that serves as a poor, outdated model of human behavior that is not only poorly defined (what is the will? how is it separated from non-will? from what exactly is it free?), but it defies certain known facts, such as the brain prepares for action before a person decides what action to take.
Biology explains explain behavior, even complex human behaviors. Dr. Robert Sapolsky provides a magnificent resource explaining this for the average non-scientist: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Ofc here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078
It’s a big fucking book, but so so worth it to understand why we do, think and act the way we do.
There’s a summaryBehave (a summary) I found too if you want to read that first to get a sense of the book
Not expecting anything. At all. But we are expecting adolescents to fight their natural sleep cycle to accommodate the 50 adults that work at a school. I'd highly recommend the book "Why we sleep", if you want to learn more about how we can optimize human growth and learning through simple changes to sleep schedules.
This man knows his sleep. He spent his whole life researching it, and wrote the general findings in the book Why We Sleep. It was such an eye-opener for me, just unbelievable how much effect sleep has on our day-to-day life.
Caffeine directly counteracts your ability to sleep and the quality of it. I'm pretty sad about it because my parents drink a LOT of caffeine and they always complain about not sleeping. I tried suggesting to them that maybe their caffeine habit (addiction) is the problem, but they don't seem to think that is the problem...
Anyway if you want an interesting read, you should definitely read his book!
Other Minds, it’s about the consciousness of octopuses and consciousness in general. It’s a very well written and fascinating book.
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Consciousness/dp/0374227764