and you thought YOU didn't get enough sleep ...

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Without sleep your organs would be working constantly without rest.

I don't know about you, but my organs continue to work while I'm asleep...

Right. Sleep is basically just a period for your brain to literally recover.

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

its very possible, not sure about not sleep but there are ppl that get away with 1hr to even 20 min naps and they are done. its rare, but it does occur and these people fuction just fine, no psychological problems or physical problems. i read that in one study they brought in a woman who claimed that she didn't sleep much if any at all. ont he first nite she was anxious so didn't get any sleep and the next few days they studied her she got 2 hours or so at most. but she fuctioned with out any problems.

 

[Gulzakar]

What exactly happens to the brain and body that make it need sleep...

obviously hard work...but what else? most of us aren't exactly hard workers...

 

[Wheatmaster]

i'm falling asleep reading this.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Babbles
I wouldn't be so quick to call shens on it. Lets say over the course of the past 20 years in which he has gone without sleep, how many billions of poeple has there been on the planet? What, 10 billion maybe - 6 billion now then add in a few billion for those that have died over the past 20 years.
Anyhow, one person out of many billion of people is a pretty small statistical number. Therefore since those odds are so small it very well could be possibly that this guy has a genetic mutation in which he does not require sleep.

That's like saying, someone "has a genetic mutation so they don't have to breath", or "has a mutation so they don't have to have heart-beats". WTF?

Originally posted by: Babbles
Do you all think there is no way at all that there is 1:10,000,000,000 chance that somebody may 'evolve' where they do not need sleep?

Uhh, yeah. Sure. And so, why hasn't "superman" been born yet, a human that is impervious to bullets, etc., and has both infra-red eye-laser beams, and super-cold freeze-breath. Man, imagine the $$$ he could make at a popular night club/restaraunt, cooking the food and icing the drinks at the same time!

Originally posted by: Babbles
Hell this very well could be a real human example of evolution at work.
Or it could be fake.

Ya think? The old guy's probably lost his memory, and just passes out and doesn't remember a thing. It's possible for people to suddenly succumb to intense sleep needs, even in the middle of a sentence. Rare, but possible.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Nik
[Right. Sleep is basically just a period for your brain to literally recover.

Nightly defrag, and a change to flush out the daily pagefile's accumulation of cruft.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Reads a good book?

How about working your ass off and being able to retire pretty quickly...

And then immediately die after you retire.