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Scientifically speaking

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 22:07:36 2020 No.12209328 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12209380 >>12209387 >>12209391 >>12209398 >>12209498

Scientifically speaking, how could Nikola Tesla stay innovative and sharp cognitively if he only had 2 hours of sleep everyday? Is there something we don't know about sleep today?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:16:25 No.12209359 Report

Quoted By: >>12209372

Genius brain, if you don't have it don't bother

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:19:48 No.12209372 Report

Quoted By: >>12209390

>>12209359
How could you know it was his genius and not the power of his sleep schedule?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:21:32 No.12209380 Report

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>>12209328
wasn't he also kind of insane? I doubt less sleep would make you smarter.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:23:29 No.12209387 Report

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>>12209328
Im not a scientific man but I can say that if youre driven and inspired you stop feeling sleepy
I get this effect after i listen to earl nightingale recordings, i get that weird feeling in or near my dick, like some kind of anxiety that you would feel thinking about playing some really good game when you would arrive at home from school, all my tiredness basically disappears

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:23:59 No.12209390 Report

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>>12209372
you have the ability to test this on yourself op.

go try to get 2 hours of sleep for a couple months, we'll be waiting for your theory of everything

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:24:09 No.12209391 Report

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>>12209328
It's possible to shorten your sleep cycle by reducing the amount of time spent in REM sleep (IIRC its only deep sleep (which follows) that matters). I remember reading about interspersing the day with 45 minute microsleeps instead of a prolonged single session. However, even if possible these things would ultimately be very challenging and not worth the potential detrimental impact on your sleep. Given the times in which he lived, it's also possible he just had a casual habit of amphetamine use.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:25:27 No.12209398 Report

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>>12209328
I've experimented with extreme sleep deprivation using the narcolepsy drug Armodafinil. I went 3 months being awake for 2 to 3 days at a time separated by 4-12 hours of sleep. I lost all ability to control the flow of my attention and became extremely tunnel visioned. I also started having waking hallucinations like pictures moving around like gifs and sometimes had euphoric moments where it seemed like I crossed into a waking dream and my brain was releasing DMT. All I would do is work like a schitzo on different programming projects.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:25:37 No.12209399 Report

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>>12209390
Cool hypothesis bro prove it yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:36:42 No.12209426 Report

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>>12209391
Do you more resources into that? Sounds interesting

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:54:09 No.12209469 Report

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>>12209391
>it's also possible he just had a casual habit of amphetamine use
My use of amphetamines to get through my E&M classes can confirm that amphetamines make it so that lack of sleep has no impact on your cognitive abilities

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 22:59:46 No.12209484 Report

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>>12209469
Not true dawg, at least not in my case.

I've been taking adderall since 7th grade, and If I don't get enough sleep due to it then I crash and fucking burn the next day mentally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 23:00:48 No.12209487 Report

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>>12209399
Lol it's not like he can't, especially if he wants to defend it so much.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 23:02:08 No.12209493 Report

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>>12209387
This.
If I get really into something, I can stay up all fuckin night typing away at my computer, and when I hit the bed I crash nearly instantly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 23:03:52 No.12209498 Report

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>>12209328
>if he only had 2 hours of sleep everyday?
I think that is bs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Oct 2020 12:16:22 No.12211294 Report

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>>12209390
I suffer severe insomnia and something like this happened to me. I was in a state of perpetual mania and my heart was constantly palpitating due to the adrenaline. During this time I could learn rapidly and do intellectual work all day but at the expense of constant exhaustion. After a few weeks of this my brain began shutting down and I had to drink heavily to sleep for more than a few hours and allow it to repair.

Tesla also said he took frequent naps though, so he slept much more than 2 hours a night.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Oct 2020 13:31:41 No.12211461 Report

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>>12209426
While I've not trawling the web for you, you'll want to look for "the differences between REM & deep sleep" as well as the differences between monophasic (what we normally do), biphasic and polyphasic sleep cycles.

>>12209469
I didn't say that it has no impact, amphetamines definitely negatively affect you. My point was that amphetamines were more than likely publicly available at the time (similar to how pep pills were available in the 40s.)

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