That was a wonderfully clear introduction! I’d definitely want to see more posts on sleep since I think it’s one of the most important, if not the most important aspect of optimizing cognitive performance.
I second Mirzhan_Irkegulov’s disinterest in polyphasic sleep though, at least until several lower hanging fruits have been picked. Polyphasic sleep is likely to be excessively difficult to maintain by most people, even if it were a viable alternative. Since sleep is enormously important as you stated and likely interesting as it is to many people, your posts will have a greater positive impact if you explore the less niche venues first.
Most people in society follow the same sleeping patterns so I can’t see why disabling circadian control at will would be extremely useful unless you do shift work or have to socialize at nights. Could expand on that? I think it’s much easier to not get sleep deprived in the first place. Problems of shift work are increasingly mitigated by the internet as work is computerized and thus can be done by people on the sunny side of the planet while you sleep.
Suggestions for subtopics based on my personal interest
alcohol, nicotine, caffeine
exercise and its timing, nutrition and its timing
chronological age
optimizing artificial lighting and the bedroom
z-drugs and their dangers
melatonin, mirtazapine, mianserin, quetiapine
stress, depression, anxiety
effects of antidepressants on sleep structure
If you need help with article paywalls PM me and I’ll see what I can do.
Another interesting topic would be the effect of body temperature on sleep latency and/or quality (or possibly temperature of selected body parts—there is some buzz about the so-called “cooling cap” for insomnia lately, for example).
To me it seems a big breakthrough for being able to trim sleep time down substantially would be some technology that allowed a person to pass through the lighter stages of NREM sleep more quickly so that you could spend the majority of sleep time in slow wave.
That was a wonderfully clear introduction! I’d definitely want to see more posts on sleep since I think it’s one of the most important, if not the most important aspect of optimizing cognitive performance.
I second Mirzhan_Irkegulov’s disinterest in polyphasic sleep though, at least until several lower hanging fruits have been picked. Polyphasic sleep is likely to be excessively difficult to maintain by most people, even if it were a viable alternative. Since sleep is enormously important as you stated and likely interesting as it is to many people, your posts will have a greater positive impact if you explore the less niche venues first.
Most people in society follow the same sleeping patterns so I can’t see why disabling circadian control at will would be extremely useful unless you do shift work or have to socialize at nights. Could expand on that? I think it’s much easier to not get sleep deprived in the first place. Problems of shift work are increasingly mitigated by the internet as work is computerized and thus can be done by people on the sunny side of the planet while you sleep.
Suggestions for subtopics based on my personal interest
alcohol, nicotine, caffeine
exercise and its timing, nutrition and its timing
chronological age
optimizing artificial lighting and the bedroom
z-drugs and their dangers
melatonin, mirtazapine, mianserin, quetiapine
stress, depression, anxiety
effects of antidepressants on sleep structure
If you need help with article paywalls PM me and I’ll see what I can do.
Another interesting topic would be the effect of body temperature on sleep latency and/or quality (or possibly temperature of selected body parts—there is some buzz about the so-called “cooling cap” for insomnia lately, for example).
To me it seems a big breakthrough for being able to trim sleep time down substantially would be some technology that allowed a person to pass through the lighter stages of NREM sleep more quickly so that you could spend the majority of sleep time in slow wave.