Research on the Elimination of Sleep
Within a few years of research by myself and others, I hope to create a document entitled, "The Methods and Processes Necessary for the Elimination of the Necessity to Sleep in the Human Organism". Ideally, this paper would contain all the information necessary for anyone to nearly or completely eliminate sleep as part of the necessary cycle of routines in one's day.
For now, this feature will contain notes on my own research, links to others doing similar research, updates on sleep research available from the science community and the media, and all other relevant information.
As information becomes more concrete, this paper will slowly form with many more
links, scientific evidence, and general information about the elimination of sleep.
Tips for Decreasing Your Need for Sleep
Take Your Vitamins!
The B-Complex Vitamins seem to help tremendously in decreasing sleep need. I have
personally tried a store-brand Super B-Complex and it worked great.
Keep The
Carbohydrates Close To
Zero
A no/low carbohydrate, Atkins-type diet
has been shown my myself and others as absolutely necessary if you want to really
cut down on your need to sleep. It seems that a high protein / low carbohydrate
regime keeps the body and mind in peak performance. Any diet that decreases your
body's need to recover (sleep) says a lot for the diet, IMO. Some say the Zone diet helped them, but I can't support this
personally.
Drink Lots of Water
I can't personally tell you the benefits of this practice because it is one of my
greatest downfalls. I find it hard to keep my water consumption up. I have
been told (and hopefully soon find out) that drinking lots of water helps out
tremendously. Lots of water is needed to keep the chemical balance in your body and
brain on tabs. It also raises your metabolism and increases the functioning power of
your kidneys and waste management system. A wonderful book on this topic
can be found in our bookstore.
Work, Work, Work
A lot of good it does to try to stay up and all you do is sit up in bed and watch
Jerry Springer all night long. Maybe the most important tip of all is this -- stay
productive! Working on my business (work that never is exhausted) and this
web page are great, productive things to do. Reading a good Rand or Wallace book
never hurts. Expanding your integrating ability via assimilating contextual
information is a good way to keep those neurons pumping all night long!
Integrate!
On a related note to Work, Work, Work -- keeping your mind tuned to a project
that requires serious integration is probably the best known way to keep the mind going.
When you are integrating, you are not just thinking in the typical sense.
You go beyond the normal, earth-mode thinking. This integration process seems
to decrease your need to repair yourself. It has even been suggested by some on the
Neo-Talk list that sleep could be completely and naturally eliminated if one was
completely integrated to the facts of reality and exerted conscious, integrated thought at
all times -- a scenario undoubtedly inherent to the future Civilization of the Universe.
Avoid Television
The invention of the television and the increase of world-wide mass communication
is a definite positive and one of the great benefits of living in the Technological Age.
But with this great invention came an entertainment medium totally lacking of any
possible intellectual or emotional value creation for the individual viewer.
Television has the ability to put the viewer's mind in the Alpha stage -- a stage of
inhibited ability to integrate properly, thus making the mind susceptible to any mystical,
subjective, unintegrated piece of information that happens to come out of the speakers.
So, my advice -- don't watch any television unless you are feeling very sharp in the mind
and anything but tired. I stick to movies, The Discovery Channel, and the news --
all of which can produce a lot of value if you are integrating and can filter out the
"stupidness". Oh yea, watching Contact as a mini-vacation from your normal routine is
a good moral booster.
Everybody Say "No
Cheese!"
If everything above doesn't seem to help and you still feel tired a lot, perhaps
you have what alternative medicine would call Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Supposedly, one major cause of CFS is a yeast overgrowth.
I can give you my personal take on this one. Being on a ketogenic diet, I totally
eliminated most sources of yeast (bread, some crackers and chips) from my diet. The
one big source of yeast that is allowed (to some extent) on a ketogenic diet is cheese.
Cheese, like any fermented food, is created by the chemical reactions of yeast.
I cut out my cheese intake for about two days and it made an enormous
difference! That occasional tiredness I get throughout the day was gone. The
regular period of sloppy mental functioning and decreased energy I get from around 5:00pm
to 9:00pm all but disappeared. It seemed that I suffered from a case of CFS caused
by an intestinal yeast overgrowth. Try it out and see if it helps.
If you smoke,
QUIT!
Besides quitting for health benefits, stopping this dangerous habit
will also decrease your need for sleep.
Posts on the Neo-Talk list about Sleep
SteveZon's Experience with
Eliminating Sleep Tons of great information here -- he's
done a lot of work on this lately
How the Human Brain Developed
and How the Human Mind Works Lots of scientific info on sleep!