Questions tagged [sleep]
Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than being in hibernation or a coma.
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Did a Chinese football fan die after voluntarily staying awake for 11 days straight?
Daily Mail, 22 June, 2012
A Chinese football fan died after going 11 nights without sleep as he
tried to watch every single kick of the ball of Euro 2012.
Jiang Xiaoshan, said to be supporting ...
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Does morning exercise offset one to two hours of sleep deprivation?
On LinkedIn, the well-known associate professor of neurobiology, Andrew Huberman, posted the following claim:
The primary mechanism by which morning exercise offsets partial (one to two hours) sleep ...
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Can masturbation cure insomnia?
I've come across the claim that masturbation can cure insomnia at several places on the internet, including:
Episode 1 of The Principles of Pleasure, which focuses on female orgasm.
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is inclined bed therapy real?
I have discovered "Inclined Bed Therapy"
They claim is very beneficial
Is this real therapy?
Why are all beds flat (conspiracy)?
Here some claims for the IBT
sleep psychologist, ...
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Is eating and then going to sleep bad for health?
It is common to hear elderly in Portugal saying that dining and then going to sleep has a bad impact on one's health (apparently it is not only in Portugal).
From a National Institute of Health ncbi....
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Can mattresses relieve scoliosis pain?
I found a lot of reviews of mattresses that claim they can help with back pain from scoliosis. I was really surprised because I haven't heard about them before.
Here are some examples:
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Are blue light filters, not blue lights, on phones and computer screens harmful to sleep?
These existing questions ask whether the blue lights, not blue light filters, from computer screens affect sleep:
Does blue light from screens (phone, computer, TV) before sleep affect sleep?
Does ...
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Can you truly fall asleep in two minutes with this military technique?
The military secret to falling asleep in two minutes | The Independent.
The trick is reportedly used by the US army to help them fall asleep in situations that are less than peaceful, such as on ...
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Does having your bedroom door closed while sleeping improve fire safety?
The UL (formerly Underwriter Laboratories) has a Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) that claims that sleeping with the bedroom door closed reduces the risk of being killed in a fire:
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Can you increase sleep quality by removing static electricity from the body with a specialized mattress/quilt?
The claim is: static electricity builds up during the day and prevents you from sleeping well at night, which can be circumvented by using a specialized mattress/quilt that dissipates the static ...
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Does blue light from screens (phone, computer, TV) before sleep affect sleep? [duplicate]
One claim I come across again and again and again in some form is this:
Blue light from screens before sleep affects the production of melatonin in your body therefore it's harder to fall asleep (or ...
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Is sleep "defragmentation" for your brain?
I've seem several articles claiming that sleep is akin to the usual proccess of hard drive defragmentation, however for your brain. This process allegedly prunes synapses/memories and reconsolidate ...
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Do water pillows improve sleep quality?
The manufacturer of a water-filled pillow claims:
In a published study from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, The Water Pillow by Mediflow was clinically shown to improve quality of sleep and ...
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Does Earthing Therapy reduce cortisol secretion and help sleep?
Earthing Therapy involves "earthing" and "grounding" the human body by electrically connecting it to the ground.
In the book Sleep Smarter, by Shawn Stevenson, he claims there is research that says ...
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"Relax and Win" - Classified military method to fall asleep quick?
The book Relax and Win by Bud Winter (a track coach) claims to reveal relaxation techniques developed by him and others for the US military:
Based on mental and physical training methods used to ...
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