<story><title>What Happens to the Body on No Sleep</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarath</author><text>While I understand why you&amp;#x27;d write something like this, I think that this sort of thinking is the reason people get poor sleep nowadays anyway. This obsession with &amp;quot;efficiency&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;productivity&amp;quot;. &lt;i&gt;Even if&lt;/i&gt; it is more productive to get sleep, I believe that thinking about it in terms of hygiene or in terms of quality of life is much healthier.&lt;p&gt;Maybe you disagree but not every minute of life should be devoted to doing the most productive thing you can. Sleeping for sleep&amp;#x27;s sake or because it makes you feel good should be enough reason. I&amp;#x27;d rather turn my attention away from all these life-hack, min-maxing ways of thinking and just listen to my body telling me what it wants.</text></item><item><author>motivic</author><text>In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them. And often I would &amp;quot;dream&amp;quot; up a clever solution to a homework problem during my sleep.&lt;p&gt;J.P. Serre, one of the most brilliant mathematician still living today, purportedly &amp;quot;does all his best work in his sleep&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyurl.com&amp;#x2F;y25q45ut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyurl.com&amp;#x2F;y25q45ut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I learned in the wonderful Coursera course: &amp;quot;Learning How to Learn&amp;quot;, these are manifestations of the unfocused or diffused mode of the mind, and play a critical role in learning and problem solving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;learn-love-code&amp;#x2F;learnings-from-learning-how-to-learn-19d149920dc4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;learn-love-code&amp;#x2F;learnings-from-learning-h...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronic</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a truly mind-boggling feeling when you escape the busy city life and somehow manage to be truly in sync with yourself.&lt;p&gt;I was hiking in Scotland and Iceland over the last two years and either times there was a breaking point when we were in the middle of nowhere. In Iceland some weather forced us to camp near a volcano off-site from the camping zones. In the morning, I got out of our tent and looked across a vast space of grass, rocks and ashes. A creek flowing nearby made the only perceivable noise aside from wind.&lt;p&gt;You take a look left and right. Breathe. A breeze goes over your face and you hear the deafening silence emanating from nature itself.&lt;p&gt;It was then when the usual life all felt like a massive distraction from life itself. It was a nice, calming and deep feeling that it&amp;#x27;s completely enough to just &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt;... hard to convey.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Happens to the Body on No Sleep</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarath</author><text>While I understand why you&amp;#x27;d write something like this, I think that this sort of thinking is the reason people get poor sleep nowadays anyway. This obsession with &amp;quot;efficiency&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;productivity&amp;quot;. &lt;i&gt;Even if&lt;/i&gt; it is more productive to get sleep, I believe that thinking about it in terms of hygiene or in terms of quality of life is much healthier.&lt;p&gt;Maybe you disagree but not every minute of life should be devoted to doing the most productive thing you can. Sleeping for sleep&amp;#x27;s sake or because it makes you feel good should be enough reason. I&amp;#x27;d rather turn my attention away from all these life-hack, min-maxing ways of thinking and just listen to my body telling me what it wants.</text></item><item><author>motivic</author><text>In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them. And often I would &amp;quot;dream&amp;quot; up a clever solution to a homework problem during my sleep.&lt;p&gt;J.P. Serre, one of the most brilliant mathematician still living today, purportedly &amp;quot;does all his best work in his sleep&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyurl.com&amp;#x2F;y25q45ut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyurl.com&amp;#x2F;y25q45ut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I learned in the wonderful Coursera course: &amp;quot;Learning How to Learn&amp;quot;, these are manifestations of the unfocused or diffused mode of the mind, and play a critical role in learning and problem solving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;learn-love-code&amp;#x2F;learnings-from-learning-how-to-learn-19d149920dc4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;learn-love-code&amp;#x2F;learnings-from-learning-h...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>Completely agree. I think GP put it this way because it’s easier to convince a “productivity ninja” that sleep is good for productivity than to convince them that productivity shouldn’t be their sole focus. If the goal is for them to get more sleep, this is how to reason with them.</text></comment>