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Sleep Depravation
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» screw_you replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 10:11am |
 Coolness: 77275 | i dunno why but it seems everyones sleep is all screwed up ...and it has nothing to do with drugs so keep that comment to yourself...all i know is that until this morning i hadnt seen sunlight since wensday afternoon ...but then again i woke up at 5h30 pm last nite and i havent been to bed yet ....i think im retarded and going crazy!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 11:15am |
 Coolness: 472040 | Probably some weird astral stuff going on that'S influencing everyone unconsciously...There's a lunar eclipse in 2 days and some people from all around the world will celebrate it in many ways...the type of night that keeps me awaken even thought i wanna sleep... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cloak replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 12:20pm |
 Coolness: 57660 | acid disturbs my sleep. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 12:51pm |
| Coolness: 472040 | I think it's normal..... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 1:37pm |
 Coolness: 685825 | Iza's right. Sleeping paterns are FUCKED UP!
I've been waking up every day at 9am. Last week, I woke up every day at 5:30 am, shich is like, regular human waking time. Why is my sleep back onto normal schedule?! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Optimist_pRhyme replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 1:51pm |
 Coolness: 52685 | Galaksy maybe right, since the moon has alot to do with our planet's gravity, which can screw with sleep patterns. i think it also has to do with the changing in the pressure/weather. This time of year is always really screwy for me. All i want to do is sleep.
but for some reason, i dont. screwed. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 2:45pm |
| Coolness: 472040 | We should hibernate all winter long.... It's all love. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 3:03pm |
 Coolness: 299560 | Isabel doesnt have a normal sleep schedule because she does not go to school or have a job, therefore she doesnt need one. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agent_Yogurt replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 3:54pm |
| Coolness: 133845 | yah that's troo. the only reason i keep a semi normal sleep schedule is because i have full time school and 2 jobs. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cloud9ine replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 4:18pm |
 Coolness: 138955 | I'm a walking zombie and i always will be due to the fact I get up at 5:30 a.m. every day for work |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 4:23pm |
 Coolness: 201460 | my sleeping patterns get more screwed up if I am depressed ussually |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 4:43pm |
 Coolness: 149240 | In recent years, a small cluster of brain cells (i.e. neurons) dubbed the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), has been identified as the master biological clock's probable site. Following a complicated pathway which involves a part of the nervous system called the Sympathetic Nervous System, the SCN eventually sends that information to a small gland at the base of the brain called the Pineal Gland. And it is melatonin, a hormone, that is produced by this gland. The amount of light seems to determine how much pineal melatonin is actually released from the pineal and secreted into the blood stream. The more light, the more release is suppressed. The less light, the more melatonin the blood carries. Light suppresses melatonin release.
What does that mean for the changing seasons? During those seasons when the photoperiods are long, in the spring and summer, melatonin secretion is at its lowest since it can only be secreted at a significant rate during the relatively fewer hours of darkness. On the other hand, the closer we move toward the winter solstice, the fewer hours of light there are each day and, correspondingly, the longer the period of time each day when melatonin can be released into the blood stream. What does melatonin do? Once melatonin is in the bloodstream, what is the result? There are no very, very clear answers right now, for this quite a new field of research. However, one result found over and over again is that melatonin indirectly causes body temperature to drop. And what does that have to do with loss of pep, loss of energy, with sluggishness and perhaps with eventual depression The answer to that is not completely clear either. However, it is instructive to know that when we fall asleep, our body temperature drops. We also know that a drop in body temperature, sleep, and high blood levels of melatonin go together. Perhaps we might one day discover that the elevation of melatonin blood levels brought about by the dousing of light at night, in its creation of lowered body temperatures, is the event which actually brings about sleep. Scientific evidence does not yet permit us to make that statement, but it is a good possibility to speculate on! A way, perhaps, to conceptualize all this is in some respects we operate as if we were solar powered, at least where sleep and wakefulness are concerned. Light powers the battery, in part by preventing too much melatonin from entering the blood stream, and as light disappears, melatonin release begins and possibly plays a role in triggering sleep. Then, as the sun once again begins to rise above the horizon, melatonin release is once again slowed, body temperature rises, and the movement toward wakefulness begins. If all of this were true, then we would predict that as the nights get longer and melatonin is present more often in the blood, then the amount of time we spend either sleeping or feeling sleepy will also increase. We don't know why this is not true of everyone, for it definitely is not. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Miss_Amanda replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 5:40pm |
 Coolness: 160780 | you see, i'm just always exhausted.. I go to school full time and have a part time job. I spend my days being exhausted and my nights are spent awake most of the time. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 6:25pm |
| Coolness: 149050 | simple solution...
sleep |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djAmalgam replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 6:52pm |
| Coolness: 106025 | ...the wise one has spoken |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Tue Dec 3, 2002 @ 8:05pm |
| Coolness: 149050 | damn right im wise... dont you forget it foo |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agent_Yogurt replied on Wed Dec 4, 2002 @ 3:26am |
| Coolness: 133845 | damn, it's 3:23 am, i'm still up, i didn't get out of my pj's all day. wtf is wrong with me? I need to sleep. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» LoudSipher replied on Wed Dec 4, 2002 @ 6:25am |
 Coolness: 69025 | yeah sleep and get in shape for hulla, cuz we're going down there :D
take care |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mindset replied on Wed Dec 4, 2002 @ 3:47pm |
| Coolness: 52780 | i think you've all been doing too much meth. |
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