Mr. Wolf helped out last week. I was worried about what would get posted as I didn’t know if we could have another rant twice in one week. Our heads could have exploded. Instead he went all Geek on it and posted a really cool blog. So thanks to you sir.

This week it is all about sleep. We here at Semantink do not seem to get this anymore. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that keep us going through the night and into the early morning hours. While staying up late for our generation is not unusual, I started to wonder how much sleep do we actually need?

The most common accepted hours of sleep one should get is 8 to 9 hours. I read somewhere that 7 would be the optimal but really I think it comes down to the individual. I personally would love to get 9 hours of sleep. Sleeping, while dearly missed, is more like an enemy trying to keep you from getting the things you need to get done. I say enemy because the US government treats it as such. They have done many studies on sleep. They would love to make it so soldiers could stay awake indefinitely without any side effects.  The Military has released many of their studies to the public. In some of these studies just good ole caffeine was used to keep troops awake. Apparently, while not officially endorsing energy supplements, there are many different kinds of energy products to be had on base. One military paper called “Facilitation of Task Performance and Removal of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation by an Ampakine (CX717) in Nonhuman Primates” found some interesting results. The results showed that monkeys kept awake and given Ampakine were faster and more alert than monkeys who were allowed to sleep.

This war with the enemy sleep is why there is such a big industry developing things to keep you awake. You have Coffee, tea, 5hour energy, Red Bull, Monster Energy, and Orexin A to name a very small few.  Your probably asking yourself what the hell is Orexin A. Well I’ll tell you. There is a professor of psychiatry at UCLA, named Jerome Siegel, that found an interesting way to keep us awake. If what he has figured out is released to the general population we will all be snorting a spray to stay awake (that should be the tagline : Spray Awake). Apparently we lose Orexin A during the day. The loss of this chemical makes us tired. Narcoleptics don’t seem to produce much of this stuff. Jerome Siegel made pure Orexin A into a spray that you should snort through your nose. This will wake you right up and without any side effects because your body would have produced the same stuff anyways.

However the best way to finally beat the sleep is to catch a fever. Yeah that’s right if you catch this specific kind of fever you might never sleep again. Don’t believe me well then I would like to introduce you to Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc. This guy has not slep in 33 years. My eyes bugged out when I read this. I was like BS he had to of taken a nap sometime. No he hasn’t because he tried and just couldn’t sleep. Thai Ngoc caught a fever in 1973 and since then has been unable to sleep. Not even drinking makes this guy pass out. He uses his new ability to work on his farm. Maybe Batman found this fever because how would he have time to sleep when fighting all night and then acting like nothing happened the next morning.

I’m going to just stick with my 5 min energy routine. You can watch it below. Oh man this helps me relieve my built up toxins of stress. Just make sure your home alone when your Three thumping in your Wayne Cook Posture. Until next weeks geek