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theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 28 Oct 2007, 07:03

Oh my me, didn't you guys have anything better to do this night? Like, sleep?

Ethric · Unread postby **Ethric** » 28 Oct 2007, 09:58

ScarlettP wrote:Like your dates?

Bada-bing

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 12:12

Saw that one coming...

Milla aka. the Slayer · Unread postby **Milla aka. the Slayer** » 28 Oct 2007, 14:41

theLuckyDragon wrote:Oh my me, didn't you guys have anything better to do this night? Like, sleep?

Absolutely not

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 28 Oct 2007, 15:02

That's... sad.

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 15:09

We'd rather spend time with each other than sleep? What's sad about it? It's so silly that 1/3 of our whole life is wasted sleeping - i.e. recharging our batteries. Would have been so much better to spend most of our time awake

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 28 Oct 2007, 15:15

Kalah wrote:We'd rather spend time with each other than sleep? What's sad about it?

About a few thousand miles?!

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 15:34

Hey, don't come here and come here, the Internet is a social thing

And it's only one thousand miles. Just 'round the corner

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 28 Oct 2007, 17:14

Sleep is overrated

Seriously if you are not too tired, chatting can be even relaxing as long as it does not deprive you of sleep in a regular basis.

Pol · Unread postby **Pol** » 28 Oct 2007, 18:28

Sleep is not overrated. But you must sleep on good place and went to the bed in the good state. Else it's no or little refreshing. Similar likes it takes some time for wakening, you will need some time to getting into sleepy mood

theLuckyDragon wrote:That's... sad.

No, it isn't. You asked about boys only. So Milla's out of oblige.

ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 28 Oct 2007, 18:34

QUOTE:

Without sleep, the emotional centers of our brains dramatically overreact to bad experiences, research now reveals.

"When we're sleep deprived, it's really as if the brain is reverting to more primitive behavior, regressing in terms of the control humans normally have over their emotions," researcher Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, told LiveScience.

Anyone who has ever gone without a good night's sleep is aware that doing so can make a person emotionally irrational. While past studies have revealed that sleep loss can impair the immune system and brain processes such as learning and memory, there has been surprisingly little research into why sleep deprivation affects emotions, Walker said.

Walker and his colleagues had 26 healthy volunteers either get normal sleep or get sleep deprived, making them stay awake for roughly 35 hours. On the following day, the researchers scanned brain activity in volunteers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while they viewed 100 images. These started off as emotionally neutral, such as photos of spoons or baskets, but they became increasingly negative in tone over time—for instance, pictures of attacking sharks or vipers.

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ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 28 Oct 2007, 18:36

Like those of us who get stressed out, crabby or just plain silly when pushed to the wall over work, school or social obligations that occasionally cause us to lose sleep didn't already know that.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 28 Oct 2007, 18:52

Silly scientists... i'm irrational at all times...

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 28 Oct 2007, 20:31

Then imagine after two days of sleep deprivation

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 20:37

Imagine me after two weeks of navy excercises, on 4 hours of sleep a day... Man, when we were done, I was so tired I couldn't sleep if I tried.

Milla aka. the Slayer · Unread postby **Milla aka. the Slayer** » 28 Oct 2007, 21:14

Ah, there are saviors all around here

@K: I completely forgot you were in the navy. Now how is that possible?

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 22:15

I dunno. Maybe you're absent-minded

Hey, I even sent you pictures, for Pete's sake

Milla aka. the Slayer · Unread postby **Milla aka. the Slayer** » 28 Oct 2007, 22:58

Yeah, I remember. Good ones those pictures

There was one with a gun right?

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2007, 23:29

My standard issue AG3, sure. Took a "Rambo" pose before we had to hand the suckers back in.

Milla aka. the Slayer · Unread postby **Milla aka. the Slayer** » 28 Oct 2007, 23:31

Yeah, that's one of the ones I got

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