Hey Kevin,

About what you said of Telsa. I haven't read the story but this is the
situation.

the serotoninic system is more complex than we know
most often than not you sleep normally
people who can sleep an hour a day, have influences during that day
that made it possible
sadness, depression, hunger, how much we ate, day dreaming, our
calmless level, et all ad infinim can affect that day can change what
will happen
we can be dead tired at 2am. something can liven us up, and we won't be
tired or sleep until the next evening at the normal hour.
some can regulate it and do it all the time
dreams, inspiration, depression, a new understand of the world, ... can
awaken us and sometimes last for months.

and on and on.

I know cuz I've experienced all these things.

Berlioz when he discovered shakespeare could barely sleep for 2 weeks,
had to go for walks to exhaust himself and would fall asleep at a cafe,
or random place. many people have done such things.

Ever was hungry, waited a while, then the hunger went away?

Walking on hot coals? Yogi's sitting in the snow and not feeling
cold? Buddhist enlightenment. Tandra.

Everything is related to everything else - the inventor of hypervcard

Serotonin. maybe other neurotransmitters. maybe undiscovered ones? I
don't know enough to say. Are we done it's just a matter of time of
understanding their reaction?

will the genome project answer all these questions? Hell no. It'll
give us the insight so we eventually will realize there are many more
factors involved than just genes.

Ever hear of Richard Lewontin?

Gary

ov 16, 2003 um 12:33 PM schrieb Kevin Keck:

> --- wayne radinsky <spodware@...> wrote:
>>
>>> I briefly looked at the article. Curious, ever
>> think about
>>> why Piccaso, Einstein, and other geniuses often
>> didn't
>>> sleep much or could sometimes probably skip a day
>> or two?
>>
>> No, I never thought about that. That could be
>> because I
>> didn't know that. I've heard Thomas Edison slept in
>> short
>> increments during the day or night, rather than
>> sleeping 8
>> hours at night. Is this common amoung geniuses? Or
>> are there
>> lots of geniuses who have normal sleep?
>
> I know Nicola Tesla claimed to only need an hour or so
> of sleep each night, but was reportedly frequently
> found napping at the lab bench. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who
> invented "the floppy disk" in 1952 [1], is also rather
> preoccupied with minimizing time wasted sleeping, and
> claims to have perfected a chair (the "Cerebrex")
> which allows him to get 8 hours' sleep in just one
> hour's time. Michelangelo is also reported to have
> slept minimally when absorbed in his work [2].
>
> [1] http://www.japaninc.net/print.php?articleID=653
> [2] http://shorterlink.com/?LOC3IE
> --
> Kevin D. Keck
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