Timeline for Is there a (quasi-)healthy way of resisting sleep?
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | Susan | (The OP's situation is different, but whatever the "project" is, it may indeed be "worth it" -- we really have no idea, but s/he's not asking our opinion on the matter.) | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | Susan | @rumtscho IMO this line of reasoning is fallacious. First, some of us (at least) encourage IV drug users to use clean needles because, well, it's less bad. Second, some of us do things like work nights (:-o). This is generally because we have priorities (or indeed necessities) other than our own health that lead us to make the decision to continue such behavior. Life involves compromise. Optimizing performance and minimizing health consequences within a framework of sleep deprivation is neither contradictory nor ignoble. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 16:38 | comment | added | rumtscho | Ah, and in case you want some more info, look what question just happens to be on top of Bio: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/20631/…. These are just the acute effects. If you were to repeatedly derive yourself of sleep, that would add chronic effects. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | rumtscho | But each occasion of sleep deprivation is unhealthy on its own. Your question is akin to asking "what's a healthy way to smoke a cigarette". The whole premise contradicts itself. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 0:33 | comment | added | TheEnvironmentalist | I'm not planning on depriving myself of sleep for the rest of my life, just occasionally for a few nights at a time at most. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | rumtscho | Lack of sleep is so detrimental to the system, the body has a safety mechanism which, after some deprivation, forces you to go to sleep even if your rational mind doesn't want it. How would you expect to find a workaround of a major health safety mechanism which qualifies as "healthy"? It may have no side effects, but its main purpose is decidedly unhealthy. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 2:14 | answer | added | Sympa | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 0:19 | history | asked | TheEnvironmentalist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |