Sleep may be the enemy, but...

[ciphergoth]

...here's a drug that reduces the need to sleep without jitters. You can stay awake for 40 hours,and feel fine.

I do not want to live in a world where you're expected to take it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61282-2002Jun16.html

Thanks to envoy for the link.

Comments

[lovingboth]

I wonder what mental problems long term use will throw up.

Speed was handed out like Smarties during WWII of course.

[diffrentcolours]

Very interesting. The amount of time humans sleep is IMHO one of the biggest things holding us back...

[xenarachne.livejournal.com]

I can see the sense of this during summertime...I mean it is hardly dark by 23:45hrs at the moment...but no sleep in the dark of winter...sounds like a cruel world to me!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Hmm...i probably wouldn't do it right now as i'm perky after 5 hours a night in the summer, but in the winter when i feel tired no matter how much i sleep, i think taking a little bit (14 hours' worth, if it works like that) would be an idea i could very well entertain.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Is this a BrassEye style send up?

Helene Emsellem, director of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase.

I mean, what???!!!

The whole thing is written very strangely.


J

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

It looks real enough - just do a search on Modafinil...

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm just the same... I currently only have a little difficulty getting out of bed at 6am after six or seven hours sleep (it just takes one "Neal, get out of bed now!) to do it, but in Winter it usually takes a lot more poking to get me moving...