From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 09:14:06 MDT
From: "David Lubkin" <lubkin@unreasonable.com>
>I understand the extropian rationale behind those who want to be
>freed of their sex drives, but I guess I'm just not that evolved
>yet....
I hope I'm never THAT evolved.... ;)
>On the other hand, as pleasurable as sleep and dreaming are, I'd
>love to have as many of those hours back as possible. I
>understand that there are approaches to reducing sleep
>requirements -- pharmaceutical, hypnosis, etc. -- that seem highly
>effective, but I'm concerned that there may be serious long-term
>side-effects. I'm skeptical that we completely understand sleep
>and dreaming. Have there ever been any good, LONG-term studies on
>sleep reduction techniques?
According to the legend R.Buckminster Fuller once undertook to re-
engineer sleep, it is claimed he slept whenever he was tired which
worked out to a half hour nap every six hours, giving him a 22 hour
day, legend has it he did this for many years.....
I once read mammals with small frontal lobes (us) process day
gathered information at night during sleep the exception was the
large front lobed ecidna,(sp?) the spiny anteater, a monotreme or
egg laying mammal (duck billed platypus being the other). In other
words we need our ZZZZZZZ's
Brian
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