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[chaotic skies]

So does anyone know the negative side effects of long-term sleep deprivation?

[Scoops Novel]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=long-term+sleep+deprivation

The NHS is reliable.

[Frumple]

The tl;dr is... basically everything goes to pot. Depending on the type of sleep deprivation, the negative side effects can be up to and including death. Wikipedia has a convenient picture! It is, in fact, pretty accurate, if not exhaustive. Chronic sleep deprivation makes any and all of those more likely and more likely to be more severe. For an easy rule of thumb, if you're getting less than five hours of sleep more than two or three times a week, and for anything even remotely approaching consistently, you may want to start strongly considering finding a sleep specialist and setting up an appointment.

For a personal example, I didn't when I was in middle school, and rarely got more than three a day (with longer spats usually being on the weekend) for... something like three years straight. I basically don't remember those years -- there's a small handful of events I remember, and the rest of it is more or less a three year gap in my memory. I really should have seen a doctor :V

E: Ah, and you almost definitely want to find out the cause of it, if nothing else. I've had family members that straight up died in their sleep due to sleep apnea, one of the common causes of sleep deprivation. So... there's definitely a potential cause for concern, yeah.

[chaotic skies]

It has pretty much boiled down to an over-active concience and never getting time to just sit and think. Oh, and I have this weird thing where it's more difficult to fall asleep in my bed than in, say, an office chair. Anyway. I won't be able to go to a sleep specialist , as my mother will just tell me "Oh you're fine it's just puberty" or "You're making this up to get attention," and my dad doesn't have the money to take me to one. Let alone the rest of my family misinterpreting things and not wanting to answer awkward questions.

EDIT: And it's not like I don't sleep for long periods of time, more that it's difficult to fall asleep until around 2 am and then I have to get up to go to school at like 6 and my natural clock almost always says "It's 10 AM better get your ass out of bed" no matter when I go to sleep. This has been my life since school started in August.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

My sleep has been fucked up since the day I was born, and while you'd think I'd eventually settle into it as routine since I've never known anything else, it's constantly a malus.

[redwallzyl]

some youtubers put out some videos collaboratively and they address a really quite creepy think to due with brains and consciousness i recommend them.

CGP Grey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

discuss!

[Criptfeind]

It's interesting but the conclusion that you have a secret ghosty person in your body right noooooowwwwwww!!!1! (which also seems to be a reason to think there's a ghosty person at all) seems apropos to nothing when all the stuff they were talking about only happens after a persons brain is cut apart.

Edit: Basically, cool phenomenon, but their injection of meaning at the end seems a bit spurious.

[Egan_BW]

Yup, if you cut something in half, you get two halves. Just like you have billions of yous, but they're all absurdly dumb.
Or maybe you have two yous, but one of them has a brain the size of an ant, while the other is basically a human brain. Wowz.

[MarcAFK]

Scientology confirmed?

[ChairmanPoo]

 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/world-octopus-and-squid-populations-are-booming

fhtagn!

[chaotic skies]

Japan's going to be enjoying themselves.

[x2yzh9]

So um, it's been a while since I posted on B12 bit I always love an intellectually stimulating topic! Seems the thread has been on the topic of axioms and logical constructs verses how things actually are once you take how we translate said things out of the equation.

All this conversation reminded me of something I personally experienced not too long ago. My native language is english, and I'm not fluent let alone remotely knowledgeable as far as factual dynamics goes in other languages (or at least, according to academia that's what it is because I never took a secondary language). Anyway, I digress but, roughly a year or two ago I had come out of a mental state which continued for a good length of time. I was on my computer browsing my email, and saw a random IQ test survey in my primary inbox. Now here's where it gets tricky. The email, and the entire website and test was in swedish. I don't even know swedish! For some reason, I easily translated (no, not google) the entire test and finished with flying colors. I've hypothesized many things that could've made that happen, such as the chemical imbalances and transmitters in my brain at the time, but regardless I have no logical explanation other than just me having taken the Latin roots from the English words I know and substituted them into swedish, but that leaves too many variables to me. Have any of you experienced this, or heard of it happening? I'd like to discover what made it 'click' at that time, because I've tried to repeat it as of lately to no avail.

[TheBiggerFish]

...

This reminds me of Old Man Henderson's character sheet.

Also several anecdotes with people knowing languages they didn't go into head trauma with.

[Il Palazzo]

Did you get hit by a pink ray from an alien-controlled satellite recently?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Maybe because it fit the IQ test format well enough that you could guess well on some of them?

Guess the question, I mean, not the answer.