Sleep, or become siao!

Here are some horror stories to share, to scare those who are not getting enough sleep and to threaten those who prevent you from getting enough of it.

LACK OF SLEEP MAY BE DEADLY
People who do not get enough sleep are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to a large British study released on Monday.... A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut their sleeping from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk in mortality from all causes and more than double the risk of cardiovascular death... READ MORE

LACK OF SLEEP MAKES YOU PRIMITIVE
A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive "fight or flight" state, researchers said on Wednesday..... "We found a strong overreaction from the emotional centers of the brain," Walker said. "It was almost as if the brain had been rewired, and connected to the fright, flight or fight area in the brain stem."... READ MORE

LACK OF SLEEP IS A LOT LIKE MENTAL ILLNESS
Feeling cranky after a bad night's sleep? Now there could be an explanation. Brain activity associated with psychiatric illness has been observed in healthy people who missed a single night's sleep. As well as shedding light on why sleep deprivation makes us feel so bad, the study could change our thinking about mental illness... READ MORE

LACK OF SLEEP COULD TRIGGER PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS
Scientists say that a lack of sleep can lead to psychiatric disorders and disruptions in the immune system. In fact, sleep can also control and alter your weight. The study, lead by teams from Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkely, suggests that people without sleep causes the brain to revert back to a more primitive pattern of activity.... READ MORE

Scared of becoming mad? Just sleep, and you'll be safe.

sleepless beauty finally sleeping – tips and facts Part 1

Introduction to How Sleep Works Part 1
Sleep is one of those funny things about being a human being -- you just have to do it. Have you ever wondered why? And what about the crazy dreams, like the one where a bad person is chasing you and you can't run or yell. Does that make any sense?


Dreaming occurs in the fifth stage of sleep.

If you have ever wondered about why people have to sleep or what causes dreams, then read on. In this article, you'll find out all about sleep and what it does for you.

Characteristics of Sleep
We all know how sleep looks -- when we see someone sleeping, we recognize the following characteristics:

• If possible, the person will lie down to go to sleep.

• The person's eyes are closed.

• The person doesn't hear anything unless it is a loud noise.

• The person breathes in a slow, rhythmic pattern.

• The person's muscles are completely relaxed. If sitting up, the person may fall out of his or her chair as sleep deepens.

• During sleep, the person occasionally rolls over or rearranges his or her body. This happens approximately once or twice an hour. This may be the body's way of making sure that no part of the body or skin has its circulation cut off for too long a period of time.
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In addition to these outward signs, the heart slows down and the brain does some pretty funky things (we'll get to this later).

In other words, a sleeping person is unconscious to most things happening in the environment. The biggest difference between someone who is asleep and someone who has fainted or gone into a coma is the fact that a sleeping person can be aroused if the stimulus is strong enough. If you shake the person, yell loudly or flash a bright light, a sleeping person will wake up.

For any animal living in the wild, it just doesn't seem very smart to design in a mandatory eight-hour period of near-total unconsciousness every day. Yet that is exactly what evolution has done. So there must be a pretty good reason for it!

Reptiles, birds and mammals all sleep. That is, they become unconscious to their surroundings for periods of time. Some fish and amphibians reduce their awareness but do not ever become unconscious like the higher vertebrates do. Insects do not appear to sleep, although they may become inactive in daylight or darkness.

By studying brainwaves, it is known that reptiles do not dream. Birds dream a little. Mammals all dream during sleep.

Different animals sleep in different ways. Some animals, like humans, prefer to sleep in one long session. Other animals (dogs, for example) like to sleep in many short bursts. Some sleep at night, while others sleep during the day.

Really?
Cows can sleep while standing up, but they only dream if they lie down.
Whales and dolphins are "conscious breathers," and they need to keep breathing while they sleep, so only one half of the brain sleeps at a time.

Sleep has a profound effect on your brain, which we'll examine in the next section.

Discoveries of a sleeplessperson

This (it's so politically incorrect!) will give many beauties sleepless nights...

...and this may lull many beauties into sleep...

...and this may be the perfect sleep wear for the hotel stay...

...for those sleepless souls this may be the perfect site to spend those sleepless hours...

... i do hope you folks get some sleep or else we may end up cranking up ideas like this (must we offend plus-size women to sell them yogurt?)...

...if all else fails, perhaps you should listen to some of the songs featured here - sure to lull you to sleep!

Where have all the sleepless beauties gone?

Where have all the sleepless beauties gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the sleepless beauties gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the sleepless beauties gone?
Gone home to sleep everyone
Oh, when will the bonus ever come?
Oh, when will the bonus ever come?

According to the latest insider news, the sleepless beauties have all gone home to sleep. Hence, no one has been blogging for a long, long time.

But who can blame them? They have bravely fought the battles. They have toiled through the most painfully sleepless nights and days. They have endured the most tormenting demands from the most contemptible and obnoxious bill payers.

So for now, they have to sleep.

All that talk about sleep...wake up!

Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam has penned an interesting piece on the recent spate of news about sleep.

Vote for your favourite Sleepless Beauty!

Season 1 Theme Song "Client放心"

Let's sing our hearts out. Maybe sing your way home too... pun intended.

《请你放心》  :     

Falling sick

Do you know what's good about falling sick and enjoying medical leave at home?

You get to SLEEP the whole day officially.

Hurray!

Wun you want to sleep like this?

Sleeping pills of the future

From BBC:

“Sleeping pills of the future could allow people to wake up feeling refreshed after two hours' sleep, according to the New Scientist.

Some pills might even allow people to go for days without sleeping at all. Steve Smith reports.”

You wanna try?

The Paradigm of Sleep, Stress and Sex

According to an obscure article traced back to the fav' magazine of male homo sapiens residing in Singapore [read: Men's Health], a human's stress level has been found to be linked to many other external factors. To facilitate the understanding of what MANkind should realise about himself, here is the gist of the feature as had been published on page 16 of the January 2007 issue:

More than 43% of men will experience the physical side effects of stress in their lifetimes, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and back pain. But there are a number of fun solutions and stress arousals that will make his stress level soar or fall.

Listening to your fav music: -16%
Running on the treadmill for 30 mins: -17%
Mediating: -44%
Being happily married: -55%
Drinking coffee: +32%
A tight dateline: +45%
Your commute: +80%
An overbearing boss: +110%
Late nights at the office: +270%
Having sex: -15%

Hence, if you are, say, the head of the communications department in a design firm, who lives on black coffee, works longer than late nights (and through to many many brand new days), is always swamped with countless menacing datelines, you must be one super duper stressed-out man.

And so the equation goes like this:
Stress Level of You Poor Chap (insert name) in one normal day
= 32 (coffee) + 270 (late nights) + 110 (loss of control) - 16 (Jay Chow's songs) - 55 (wife and 2 kids)
= 341%

To even out the stress, you need to loosen up and turn your attention to things you enjoy
= 341 / 15 (playing with birds and bees)
= 22.73 (to 2 decimal places)
= 23 (to the next whole number)

This means you need to have 23 times of S-E-X per day to balance out your accumulated stress.

Estimated Time taken to De-Stress
= 23 x 3 mins each
= 69 mins of hard work

Extra time for Rest In Between De-stressing Exercises (No normal being has the sheer physical strength to continue 'n whack non-stop)
= 22 x 5 mins break in between
= 110 mins

Total time taken to destress for a day's work
= 110 + 69
= 179 mins
= 2.983 hours
= 3 hours (rounded off)

Time to unwind for every three late nights in a week,
= 3 x 3 hours
= 9 hours


Therefore, for the described Singaporean man in the above example, you have to spend up to 9 hours every week just to overcome the total stress you accumulate in a typical 5-work-day week.


Think about this, a 9-hour sex marathon will definitely be tiring - but worth the effort to keep yourself in the pinkest of health. Is this any less beneficial than sleep can do to revitalise the body?

Now that you have been through the mind-whirling blast of Sex in the City phenomenon, and having worked out the mathematical and fun step to destressing, who will want to go to sleep so frequently now that another solution is readily available?

Who do you wanna sleep with?

Really! You know, according to an unknown self-proclaimed psychologist, your choice of sleeping partner reflects an inclination of yours that you may not even be aware of.

Now, seriously - ask yourself this question, and answer sincerely – who do you wanna sleep with? Is it:

1. your teddy bear?
2. your boss?
3. your colleague?
4. your employee/subordinate?
5. your current boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife?
6. your ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend?
7. all of your ex- and current boyfriends/girlfriends/husband/wife together?
8. a man if you claim to a be straight man or a lesbian woman / a woman if you claim to be a straight woman or gay man?
9. just by yourself?
10. any celebrity whom you don’t know personally?
11. any cute fellow you see on the street?
12. none of the above


The ANALysis
1 – You're still quite childish. Grow up!
2 – You're hungry for power.
3 – You just love to make simple things complicated.
4 – You’re quite sick.
5 – You’re boring.
6 – You can’t let go of the past. Go be a history teacher. Suits you.
7 – You’re just a useless, low class, greedy fellow.
8 – You’re oppressed. Free yourself.
9 – You’re narcissistic.
10 – You dream too much. Wake up!
11 – You’re hungry. Go eat.
12 – You’ve got no life. Go sleep with somebody! Anybody!

EQ & Sleep

Take the following quiz to find out how much you know about how EQ affects your sleep. Scroll down to find the correct answers.

True or False

1. Older EQtarians require less sleep than younger EQtarians.

2. Poor sleep is a normal part of being an EQtarian.

3. People who aren't EQtarians tend to sleep better.

ANSWERS

1. FALSE is the correct answer. The sleep requirements of older EQtarians are similar to those of younger EQtarians. All EQtarians need the same seven to nine hours of sleep per night.

2. FALSE is the correct answer. Many people believe that poor sleep is a normal part of being an EQtarian, but it is not. In fact, many EQtarians report having no or few sleep problems (except during the traditional sleep disruption season, which affects human beings globally).

3. FALSE is the correct answer. History is filled with persons without affiliations to EQ who were known to have had problems sleeping, including Vincent Van Gogh (who went mad), Napoleon Bonaparte (who was power-mad), Catherine The Great (who was madly in love with many people), Winston Churchill (who easily got mad), Marilyn Monroe (who drove many men mad) and - the inventor of the light bulb - Thomas Edison (who was mad enough to experiment 10,000 times to finally arrive at a working incandescent light bulb).

The miracle stay-awake pill

Ditch the coffee, dump the American ginseng, banish the Berocca...what you need to stay awake is CX717. Read more about the magic pill here and here.

Quiz: What Is Your Sleeping Pattern?

Do you know your sleeping pattern? Take this quiz and find out.

1. All animals need sleep. You are a ____?
A. Bat, becasue I need 20 hours a day.
B. Giraffe, because I sleep less than 2 hours a day.
C. Baby, because I need at least 9 hours every night.

2. Some animals sleep by themselves, and some do this in numbers. Which of the below is your style?
A. In groups like penguins - because the more the merrier (and also because you are scared of the cold).
B. In your birthday suit and alone - like the koala bear does.
C. Like a 5-year old kid - with a raggy teddy bear.

3. Different animals sleep in different places. You sleep ___.
A. On the EQUITY sofa with both legs over the right arm rest.
B. At home, but only for two hours.
C. In the dark little corner on the 3rd floor of EQUITY, where there is a small make-shift bed complete with a camping bag for blankie.

4. Going through ordinary and non-conventional routines before sleep are common. For instance, sometimes dogs will circle around and around before they fall down and go to sleep while at other times, they have to paw at the ground before they settle down. What is yours?
A. Drink teh from Hong Kong Street kopitiam, and take one last drag.
B. Slog away at your computer for 18 consecutive hours before you go to sleep.
C. Brush teeth and wash face.

If you get mostly As: You are a weirdo. Period. WAHAHAhahahaaahhhahaa. BOoooO!
If you get mostly Bs: You are a true blue EQUITARIAN. You know how to find joy even in the midst of torturous projects, even if you always experience the downside of life as a poor employee determined to slag half your life away for the company.
If you get mostly Cs: You are a F***ing Baby. Go suck milk lar!

A SONG TO REMEMBER!!! =)

ORIGINAL VERSION

Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad!

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long

Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song
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EJ REMIX VERSION (dedicated to the whole team in EQUITY)

Stay, stay back late
Stay till 4(am)
Stay till 6(am)
Stay for costing, (yo!) not bad!
Stay for copy, (hey!) not sad!!
Stay for concept, (hoho!) not mad!!!

Stay, stay back late
Make the project to last
Your whole week long

Don't worry that it's not long enough
For everyone else is here!
Just stay, stay back late

I want to be a cicada

Sleep for most of your life, spend your waking hours bonking and then die happy. Sounds like heaven? More like "Chirrup".

The cicada, an insect originating from Africa, spend 17 years of its life sleeping. It wakes up only in order to mate, which can be two weeks at most, and then dies.

If I have to choose my route to death, this would be it. Chirrup!

deprived

didn't sleep for a few days and you think that's fine? think again.

read:
1) The Dangers of Long Term Sleep Loss
2) Sleep deprivation
3) Sleep Deprivation Blurs Moral Judgment

"Sleep deprivation impairs alertness, cognitive performance, and mood. The ability to do useful mental work declines by 25% for every successive 24 hours awake..."
-- from Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations

Generally, when you're deprived of sleep, you work slower and your mental abilities decrease (meaning you're more stupid and less alert).

but the worst of all is that by the time you reach 40, you could look like this...



i guess botox can't help much then.

Can't get any sleep

i often dream of sleep when i am not asleep
when i do get to sleep i am so happy i weep

开张大吉

You should be sleepin', baby.



kooner