Sleep is a brain-repair mechanism, new study proves

[Melizmatic]

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[GulliverFoyle]

I’ve coped with insomnia my entire adult life. Waking up from a good night’s sleep is one my most cherished experiences.

[apoxia]

It’s becoming increasingly clear that everyone would be much better off with regular exercise and regular sleep. However, these two things seem to be really hard to do for a lot of people. If a pill could be sold that did all the good things that exercise or sleep could do those inventors would be instant millionaires (billionaires?).

[Flossaluzitarin]

Because you’re a sleepless transparent zebrafish chromosome spy, or because you commanded all the chromosomes to chill out and do your solid-state model of computing? Said with enough humor to suggest you’re not horribly fucked. Maybe you meant we all need new wristwatches that not only remind us to have a pulse but to say how kinked or unkinked representative chromosomes are, and can declare a ‘code angora’ mode where it floofs out and lets us nap right there.

KathyPadilla> Benjamin Franklin slept just four hours a night. …

Chris Hardwick too, maybe. But he isn’t 84 * n (:n>1) y.o. yet and is merely an entertaINment geNIus, though I might’ve just missed the ID10T podcast where they say nobody would ever need more than 4031 yards of twine to automate their house and barn.

[peregrinus_bis]

Read “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker.

You will never willingly miss sleep again. The book explains just how active we are in our sleep.

[tekna2007]

@KathyPartdeux

Benjamin Franklin slept just four hours a night. Was a genius and lived till 84 in the 1700’s when there was essentially no medical care and a poor diet.

His pothole repair department was on the ball.

[fnordius]

No real surprise here, I always called going to sleep “performing necessary chron jobs.”

Me: “I’m going to take my input systems offline to perform daily maintenance tasks and run diagnostics.”
Her: “Huh?”
Me: “I’m going to go to sleep now.”
Her: groans in disgust

[fnordius]

@theophrastus

For instance this “sleep is to spackle-up the holes” seems to lack any reason that the entire organism needs to shut down to accomplish that. If we get a bruise we don’t have to shut down while that’s being healed. Why can’t brain neurons whose names begin with ‘J’-‘N’ shut down while the others take up the slack? I believe that air-breathing oceanic mammals shut down half their brains for sleep while dealing with the rigors an aquatic life with the other bit - so division of labor is possible, why isn’t it more likely?

I think this is a result of evolving from carnivorous/omnivorous mammals, where sleep can coincide with digestion. Sleep also saves energy, so sleep is a good way to use digestion downtime to perform maintenance checks throughout the body. If you sleep after hard exertion, well, your muscles use the sleep phase to regenerate as well. Our ancestors had the luxury of downtime between meals unlike, say, herbivores, so those whose brains used it more for sleep routines ended up with an edge.

[FGD135]

The ‘Have a Wank’ guide to a good night’s sleep

[FGD135]

[anon27554371]

[SamSam]

@xeni

New Study Proves

Scientists Lior Appelbaum and David Zada in Israel publish new proof that sleep serves to help our brains repair damage.

“Proof” is a very strong claim, and is rarely screen in science.

“I think this is one of the key reasons we need to sleep,” said Lior Appelbaum from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

“I propose that, when we are very tired, neurons accumulate so much damage that they signal the whole brain that we have to go to sleep to fix the damage and avoid going into an unsafe zone,” he added.

These are not strong claims.

[anon48584343]

@Flossaluzitarin

nobody would ever need more than 4031 yards of twine to automate their house and barn.

Roger that.

[strangefriendbb]

Yes.

[KathyPartdeux]

@tekna2007

His pothole repair department was on the ball.

Things in Philly have gone way downhill since then. It’s potholes - all the way down.

[FGD135]

https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/polyphasic

[sme]

Came here to say this.

And to point out that dozing through research methodology classes never made anyone smarter.

[hecep]

Whoever cajoled them into making it a B-side, has no sense of humor.

[anon48584343]

There’s a great version of My Brain on the “Bootleg Detroit” Album.