27/11/2011, 06:56 PM
I think I've talked a lot about trying to find a way so that my mind can operate at optimum efficiency and I think I've found it (well, for the time being).
It's going to be obvious, but...it's sleep.
and not just any sleep, but sleep that is done IN THE DARK, which means you don't sleep past morning or what not. For me, I think what was happening was that I wouldn't enter REM sleep (deep sleep) because of the light of the sun coming through my window in the morning. Whilst I was asleep, my body would never enter the most important part of the sleep cycle because of the outside influence and thus, I would feel like spoon even though I had a nice 8 hours of sleep.
It's an amazing thing, people usually don't notice they are "acting dumber" than they usually are because it's not easy to quantify something that you aren't even seeing. For me, I discerned this from the fact that
-My head wasn't spinning when I'd do mathmatical theory/proofs/problems.
-I could actually do the problem without much thought.
All in all, I feel great today and I was able to get through a lot. While all this is PURE speculation, I will report back to you guys about my experiences (that is if you care :( ).
You guys should try it sometime if you find that you're not doing good in school or your head is just spinning throughout most of the day.
inb4 tetris you should read articles on this, I did and not many of them pointed me in the right direction for the days where I felt "dumber".
It's going to be obvious, but...it's sleep.
and not just any sleep, but sleep that is done IN THE DARK, which means you don't sleep past morning or what not. For me, I think what was happening was that I wouldn't enter REM sleep (deep sleep) because of the light of the sun coming through my window in the morning. Whilst I was asleep, my body would never enter the most important part of the sleep cycle because of the outside influence and thus, I would feel like spoon even though I had a nice 8 hours of sleep.
It's an amazing thing, people usually don't notice they are "acting dumber" than they usually are because it's not easy to quantify something that you aren't even seeing. For me, I discerned this from the fact that
-My head wasn't spinning when I'd do mathmatical theory/proofs/problems.
-I could actually do the problem without much thought.
All in all, I feel great today and I was able to get through a lot. While all this is PURE speculation, I will report back to you guys about my experiences (that is if you care :( ).
You guys should try it sometime if you find that you're not doing good in school or your head is just spinning throughout most of the day.
inb4 tetris you should read articles on this, I did and not many of them pointed me in the right direction for the days where I felt "dumber".