2020-09-28 at 5:32 AM UTC
Cly
African Astronaut
[foredate your moneyless friar's-cowl]
I eat my evening meal at night and feel too energized at night to sleep. If I stay up and do other shit to keep myself occupied besides staring at a ceiling or something like that, will I spontaneously fall asleep at the wheel on my way to the market the next day even though I feel fine? I worry about this because that's what all the papers say. But I can stay up 40 hours easily without crashing feeling wide awake. I'm just worried it's not healthy. I think it has something to do with the antipsychotic I take. Please help, I just want to be safe.
2020-09-28 at 5:45 AM UTC
Well yeah there are metabolic processes that only happen during sleep. You cant survive that way forever, and even in the shortterm its not optimal.
2020-09-28 at 5:48 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
there have been documented cases of people who only need to sleep very little if at all.
I wonder how that impacts them in the long-term though; over the course of their life their brain would be running at full load a good 30% more than anyone else
Cly
African Astronaut
[foredate your moneyless friar's-cowl]
but am I just going to pass out at the wheel? I don't think my body is doing anything metabolically different during the rest periods i take between my more remarkable sleep periods I get every 36-40 hours than if I were to stay awake.
2020-09-28 at 4:01 PM UTC
yes, if your iq is 80 and below.
