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oneirophreniaOh, man. Thirteen hours of good, solid, mostly-dreamless (see below) sleep does a brotha good....At work last night, in order to keep me going while my mind was slowly caking up with data plaque, I did a bit of online research into the biomechanics of sleep and now a lot makes more sense.
First of all, I need a minimum of nine hours of sleep anymore. NINE. I can get by, roughly, with seven to eight--but in order to maintain optimal operating conditions, nine is a must. Now I know why: my brain runs really, really hot. There's always so much sheer number-crunching going on in my brain that I 1) require more time for it to reboot in order for my short-term memory buffers to clear out; and 2) my metabolism is ramped up so high to keep all that processing well-fed with glucose and oxygen, no wonder I need such a long time to recharge. I guess if I could figure out some way to underclock myself I'd need a lot less sleep, but still....Weird.
Average neural frequency is something like 1 to 7 Hz. I swear to gods sometimes I think my brain is running at about 1 to 7 KILO-Hz. Last night, I was trying to figure out how a basic tiling problem for an ad that needed an odd number of blocks squeezed into a perfectly rectangular space, and even something as simple as that ramped my processing frequency up so high I swear I could feel my forehead growing hot with waste heat. Most likely, though, that was just caused by the gallon of Mountain Dew and Full Throttle I chugged in order to keep my lame ass awake.
Right now, I'm seriously thinking about a way to thread a fluid-based cooling system into my cerebral meninges. Maybe sink a few thin metal leads all the way down into my hypothalamus as well to cool off emotional processing, as well, so when I get severely pissed off at the useless machine I have to work on at the newspaper I don't overheat.
First of all, I need a minimum of nine hours of sleep anymore. NINE. I can get by, roughly, with seven to eight--but in order to maintain optimal operating conditions, nine is a must. Now I know why: my brain runs really, really hot. There's always so much sheer number-crunching going on in my brain that I 1) require more time for it to reboot in order for my short-term memory buffers to clear out; and 2) my metabolism is ramped up so high to keep all that processing well-fed with glucose and oxygen, no wonder I need such a long time to recharge. I guess if I could figure out some way to underclock myself I'd need a lot less sleep, but still....Weird.
Average neural frequency is something like 1 to 7 Hz. I swear to gods sometimes I think my brain is running at about 1 to 7 KILO-Hz. Last night, I was trying to figure out how a basic tiling problem for an ad that needed an odd number of blocks squeezed into a perfectly rectangular space, and even something as simple as that ramped my processing frequency up so high I swear I could feel my forehead growing hot with waste heat. Most likely, though, that was just caused by the gallon of Mountain Dew and Full Throttle I chugged in order to keep my lame ass awake.
Right now, I'm seriously thinking about a way to thread a fluid-based cooling system into my cerebral meninges. Maybe sink a few thin metal leads all the way down into my hypothalamus as well to cool off emotional processing, as well, so when I get severely pissed off at the useless machine I have to work on at the newspaper I don't overheat.
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Date: 2005-08-17 02:06 am (UTC)