Ultraviolet on 17/5/2006 at 07:40
Hyperbaric sleep therapy in sensory deprivation -- who thinks that sounds like a cool sleep experiment? I think the sensory deprivation might enhance the quality of sleep by minimizing external stimuli that could wake one up or even cause small responses that could disturb sleep. This could shorten the time required for proper sleep or increase the amount of cleanup work the body can do in the same amount of time. The hyperbaric atmosphere could be theraputic as well (currently used for various things -- look it up), in that the pure atmosphere might help the body do its sleep-work more efficiently, maybe.
Ideas?
To clarify, I was thinking this could be cool for even the common person, whether for everyday sleep or meditative purposes. If it can be proven beneficial for everyone, then it could be used right alongside healthy diet and exercise.
Gingerbread Man on 17/5/2006 at 08:19
Sensory deprivation screws over the theta and delta bands hardcore. Seeing as how a ponto-geniculo-occipital / pontine (PGO/P) wave gets phase-locked to the theta band while you're asleep, I'd wager that such experiments would do little more than screw your memory consolidation over and possibly end up restructuring the neural pathways in rather unhappy ways -- PGO/P activity is implicated in some of the physiological aspects of long-term integrated memory traces by way of endochrine / hormone activation which lay the protein necessary for your circuitry.
Um. In other words I think your brain would rewire itself wrong (either by failing to lay down new memory traces or by re-hooking existing ones up incorrectly / only partially) while you sleep. Try that on an infant or on yourself for a very long time, and you'd probably lose cross-modality integration and other lovely bits of what makes memories so easy to remember.
Unless you meant something else.
D'Juhn Keep on 17/5/2006 at 12:08
I think I clicked System Shock Gen by mistake :D
Fafhrd on 17/5/2006 at 23:07
Quote Posted by GBM
Fancy words and stuff
and if you mix South American herbal hallucinagens in with it, you turn into a monkey.
Ultraviolet on 18/5/2006 at 02:40
GBM: Oh. What's the opposite then? What would help keep a person sleeping properly while in a hyperbaric chamber?
Thoughts on binaurals?
Gingerbread Man on 18/5/2006 at 04:39
What would help a person sleep properly in a hyperbaric chamber? What? You were talking about sensory deprivation tanks.
There have been a few studies on the effects of hyperbaric containment on sleep, with the general feeling that -- due to the resultant increase in mean arterial oxygen saturation, the reduced number of position changes during the night, and the reduced heart rate -- increased barometric pressure is quite able to give you better sleep all on its own.
I think you might be confused. Hyperbaric chambers are great to sleep in. Sensory deprivation tanks are not.
And if by "binaurals" you're talking about brainwave entrainment theory, you get much better results with actual EM fields than just audio. Also considering that binaural entrainment requires active attention by the subject, it's useless for when you're asleep. My personal opinion and the opinion of many other people I've read and discussed it with -- and I'm not talking about hippies and techno-stoners) is that it's pretty bogus and any reported effects are simply due to introspection, boredom, and disorientation -- but only in the one modality. You could rig up a similar thing with sound and light together but guess what we already have that and we call it a Rave.
I'm not sure anyone's going around extolling the ameliorative effects of raves on sleep. Unless you're not high and watching one, in which case you probably nod off just out of sheer boredom.
Ko0K on 18/5/2006 at 05:23
I for one would like to try the sensory deprivation tank, but not to sleep in it. Also, I'm curious as to how GBM knows so much about this shit. Furthermore, what the fuck is "techno-stoners"? Never mind, I think I may have an idea. LOL!
Gingerbread Man on 18/5/2006 at 15:54
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Also, I'm curious as to how GBM knows so much about this shit.
Comes packaged with the degree in cognitive science.
PigLick on 18/5/2006 at 16:18
thats not a real science, you just made that up!
Mr.Duck on 18/5/2006 at 18:00
I heard he's really a fireman and carries around his big hose
Confirm/Deny?
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