Cap gives you full kip in 3hrs

[Richard]

This sounds interesting and scary at the same time. I’m wondering if it puts people into programming mode. 

By TOM WELLS

SCIENTISTS have devised a way to cram a good night’s kip into THREE HOURS

They have created a machine placed above the head like a “cap” that puts wearers in deep sleep.

It could mean we all might one day wake up refreshed after just a few hours in the sack.

The “power nap” treatment quickly puts people into a deep slumber by sending magnetic impulses into the skull to slow brain waves to their lowest level.

The process is called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Professor Guilio Tononi, who led the research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, said: “Creating slow waves on demand could some day lead to treatments for insomnia. It could also lead to a magnetically-stimulated ‘power nap’ which might confer the benefit of eight hours sleep in just a few hours.”

He said deep sleep treatment can improve people’s moods and ability to learn — and boost memory by allowing connections between brain cells to relax.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007210097,00.html

[Eve 2]

Interesting, but when you "push the button" and fall to sleep who will turn it off? :D

Anyway, this not gonna work. Too artificiall and people won`t accustom on that without some side effect. That is my opinion.

[Richard]

I would like to try it if it was safe to use. It would be nice to get a good nights sleep in 3 hours.

[Astrojewels]

It would be helpful for insomnia suffers but a good night sleep requires a pattern, our body and mind must follow each important step for sleeping. Our minds can not just be switched off like that and either can our bodies. It can take up to 3 hours before you actually get into a deep sleep, each person differs, but how would your body release the correct amount of hormones during just 3 short hours? This would also affect your eyes as they were not designed to be open for 21 hours a day. I think that it would put you into altered state and would affect your body like an amphetamine abuser, long term would be distressing.

[Richard]

What you say makes sense but what about people who require less than the normal 8 hours of sleep? There are people who only sleep 1 to 6 hours a night and that’s all the sleep they need.

[Astrojewels]

That is true Richard, I say there are ‘sleepers’ and ‘wakers’ , and it is the way you are born, you do not grow into it. Personally I get about 5 hours per night and that is enough for me, but some people can not get through the day without the 8 hours and some people can sleep until lunch time. as an example my oldest daughter is a sleeper, she will have a few late nights where she gets about 6 hours or less and then she will have to make it up with a big 14 hour sleep, many people are like this, she has always needed lots of sleep. It has to do with your programming and it is just the way you are designed, it has nothing to do with laziness either. In most cases, the sleepers take at least ½ hour to get to sleep and do tend to toss and turn, yet the wakers are in dreamland in 5 minutes. This is all theory and just my own observation over the years of people’s behavior.

[Sily]

This new cap they speak of would be a sure fire way to shatter my brain and make me insane. 

I cannot handle sleep deprivation.  icon_mocken

I am soooooo much a sleeper.  I get up between 5-6am every morning and need to be asleep by nine or ten PM the night before.

This past Sunday I went to sleep after midnight -- there are a few nights I'm doing something and can't get to bed at a good time.  I was thinking to myself on Sunday.... oh no problem, I'll be okay at work the next day.  Well......... Monday at work I was soooo tired, it was awful.  If I don't get enough sleep I actually get physically sick with dizziness, headache and upset stomach... oh yeah and rapid heartbeat.

Every night it's the same... my head hits the pillow and I AM OUT. 

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[Richard]

My story is a lot like Sily’s. I’m a combination of a sleeper and a walker. I’m in dreamland a few minutes after I down but I need 8 hours of sleep to feel right. I feel tired all day and get headaches if I get less than 8.

[Astrojewels]

Glad to hear that you both have no problems getting to sleep; it is very hard for people who toss and turn just trying to go to sleep and it is important for the health of the body and mind to be in a routine sleep pattern. Many parents complain about their teens over sleeping, but during the teen years there is no routine to going to bed and getting up, they fight with themselves to stay up late and the body is not used to it and they still need their 10 hours of sleep, they are growing and maturing and those teen years take so much out of the body and mind.

We have a few high schools here that have started at 10 am instead of the usual 9am; they say that the teens come to school tired and useless, but at 10 they are ready to learn and cooperative.

[Richard]

DT is one of those people who toss and turn. She claims that she can lay in bed for 12 hours and only sleep for a few of those hours.

That sounds cool about your schools starting at 10:00am. I would have liked that better when I was in school. I never was much of a morning person. Then I’ve spent so many years working second and third shift that I feel like a zombie when I have to get up early in the morning. icon_kaffee