A full nights sleep in THREE hours!

[Nyaricus]

Go over her head, make your complaint known to someone that can make a difference.

Her/my boss is related to her. Tis kind of hard. But we'll see

 

[Hypersmurf]

A device worn on the head could in squeeze the benefit of eight hours' sleep into just two or three hours.

A wizard would still need the extra 5 or 6 hours of restful calm in order to prepare spells, though.

-Hyp.

 

[Goldmoon]

I could have used one of those in Baghdad.

 

[Merkuri]

There are a lot more phases of sleep than just deep sleep. I feel like people who sleep only when using this device for a few weeks will probably see some unexpected side effects. Scientists still do not completely understand why we need sleep.

Also, regarding the sleep-net idea... I think you have to already be asleep for this machine to affect you. It looks like it changes the phase of sleep you are in, it doesn't necessarily put you to sleep. Though having deep-sleep brainwaves induced when you were already awake might make you behave strangely, perhaps like you were sleepwalking.

This reinds me of someone I knew through my church who was interested in his own brain waves, and after jumping through a lot of hoops he managed to get someone to monitor his brainwaves and show them to him. It turns out his brain produces mostly waves that are either associated with dreaming or brain damage. He seems like a perfectly normal human being, but his brain was distinctly abnormal for a waking person.

 

[Aeolius]

...A device worn on the head could in squeeze the benefit of eight hours' sleep into just two or three hours.

"Go with a hunch of a man who's brain is fueled by lemons?"

 

[megamania]

Megamania would find this extremely useful.

heh heh

 

[megamania]

If I get by with 4 hours sleep a day now....with this machine I might get by with 20 minutes..... sounds good. Do they need a guinea pig?

 

[megamania]

This reinds me of someone I knew through my church who was interested in his own brain waves, and after jumping through a lot of hoops he managed to get someone to monitor his brainwaves and show them to him. It turns out his brain produces mostly waves that are either associated with dreaming or brain damage. He seems like a perfectly normal human being, but his brain was distinctly abnormal for a waking person.

and his name..... Abby Normal.

 

[Ferret]

If I stay up late enough I can get by with hardly any sleep. I've done 2 hours without feeling tired. It did involve a nights worth of, uh..enthusiastic dancing and drinking. But I was more awake the next day than normal!

 

[megamania]

I average 4 hours a day. its not pretty if I guess less than 3.


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