Loading ...There’s so much to write I don’t even know where to begin. I think I want to write about how I achieved a profound experience sleeping on the streets of Vancouver. It’s kind of confusing and hard to understand so bear with me while I jam a bunch of information about survival REM cycles and sleep deprivation down your throat .
Kind of irrelevant but relevant; watch the movie “Animals Are Beautiful People Too”. It’s on youtube in full, and it’s by far one of my favorite movies i’ve ever seen.
Animals in the desert are fertile and happy until the rainy season ends and draught settles in. So if we use this same law with humans, we assume things will be fine rain or shine unless something devastating happens in our environment like famine, war, pestilence, or winter. This means it should only be natural to push ourselves to our limitations to some extent as long as humanity remains intact. We are on the top of the food chain right?
Our ancestors lived in harmony with nature and the land. We hunted and gathered to survive; migrating with the herds and the weather. We would have to go three days without full sleep and sometimes food when we would hunt and trap. But we’re now at the top of the food chain and more often then not we have become fat and lazy. We don’t need this survival trait anymore, and we sleep peacefully every day, forgetting that there is a world of adventure out there and since we’re at the top of the food chain we should generally OK as long as there is water and we remain in civilization.
The theory is that there’s a biological function hidden deep inside the primordial man’s brain that enables him to go long periods of time without sleep and still function with high cognitive and physical capacities because he would need to when he hunted. But what’s missing? The nap. You would still need to take short naps until you were able to sleep in full again. Eventually, you would return home, or get a full meal, and you would be able to sleep in full, in peace.
Here’s a side note to help you understand if you don’t already. When you take methamphetamine it blocks REM from taking place. There were a series of lab tests with rats that proved this. One controlled group were given speed (meth) which blocked their REM. The other subjects were placed on islands with a hole in the middle so that when ever the rats body relaxed when it went into REM it would fall into the hole in the island that it was resting on forcing it to wake up and not receive any REM. Both control groups showed an inability to detect predators, weight diminished and life expectancy decreased. So while drugs hypothetically could be used to reduce sleep, they in the long run would prove to be very detrimental to the health.
I don’t recommend you stop sleeping, what I am saying is that a lack of sleep could actually be good for you if done properly and carefully. I’ve been doing it carefully for years now, and it has shown me magnificent results. If you’re not doing anything and you don’t need to be awake, you will probably fall asleep, but if you’re actually living in a wild environment you will stay awake for days easily.
OK, on to my story. I ended up taking a nap in a construction site on a long holiday, on a monday, after the long weekend, after not sleeping for about 3 days. I knew I needed the nap, and I took it, and slept for 24 hours. Well, actually it was 20 minutes, but it absolutely felt like 24 hours. I slept walked out of the construction site. I remember sleep walking, I am able to physically remember seeing myself through my own eyes walk out of the construction site, I walked past the security guard and I woke up standing outside of the construction site. I checked my watch thinking an entire day had passed, and it was only 20 minutes. This happened in Vancouver on a nice sunny day. The security guard even talked to me and I just smiled and walked past. In my mind, my inner voice said to me as I slept walked “you have passed any test we could of ever imagined for you, you are the king”. I seen myself as a formidable entity. It was surreal and believe it or not this is not the first time something so unimaginable has happened to me while I suck back a tremendous amount of REM in a short period of time.
I just revealed a tremendous amount of personal information to you, so, use this information at your discretion. I don’t want you to get insomnia, that’s bad, you want plenty of REM in your naps, and large chunks of sleep (8-10 hours) are normal but not every day, all day, 365 days a year… If you got insomnia in winter or in a confined space that would be hell. Logically, your natural sleep rhythms will direct you in the right direction.
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