Mental Workout?Sleep or Television?

[Ronn_Bman]

I saw a segment on the news the other night that says researchers have found that there is more brain activity while sleeping than while watching TV!

Personally, I can believe this is true. Of course, I walk and talk in my sleep. My wife gets upset when I'm watching TV because I don't talk to her, but when I'm asleep, I keep her up half the night blabbing away...lol.

Apparently I do not talk in my sleep, nor do I walk in my sleep I do however appear to have quite an active mind while Im asleep..I frequently have grand adventures, solve waking time problems and other nifty things while I sleep. Some times I remember the dreams vividly some times not, but if I dont like the ending to the dream I can re-dream it and make it come out the way I wanted...like the time I was slaughtered by vampires and werewolves...that was no fun..so I redid the whole thing [img]smile.gif[/img] When I used to really get wrapped up in computer games (like Zork) and would come on a problem I just could not crack, I would find that after a good sleep, I had solved the puzzle in my dreams.. [img]smile.gif[/img] Or the time I solved a phase shifting problem in an antenna array when I was in the Navy..we had a team working on the problem for a week then one night in a dream I found the answer.

Lets hear it for us psycho's [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: MagiK ]

[Neb]

Eh, I rarely dream, but when I do, they're fun dreams, I even enjoy the nightmares. I sometimes talk while sleeping, usually in English, even though I'm from Denmark. Rarely I sleepwalk, rarely, but it does happen now and then.

I can believe the "More brain activity than when watching TV" I honestly think that my brain switches off when I watch TV, I always fall asleep.... Of course, that sometimes happens at school too.... Hmmm....

[Beaumanoir]

Heh, I Talk In My Sleep Often. But Never In Danish. Maybe Because I Can't Speak Danish, Who Knows.
Yet, I Find That Hard To Belive! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Ronn_Bman]

My wife says I don't speak my native tongue in my sleep either, she doesn't know what language it actually is, but she says it definately isn't English...lol.

[khazadman]

my ex-wife was the same way about talking in her sleep.she'd go on endlessly and you couldn't understand a thing she said.maybe she was possesed by the devil.damn sure would have explained some of her behavior while she was awake.

[Lord of Alcohol]

I frame houses for a living and sometimes I'll have really wierd construction dreams. Bizarre to say the least, once we were adding on to a house infested with undead. But we kept at it! Also sometimes I'll wake up a 3 am with a solution to something thats on the next days building agenda. Like-hey what I planned yesterday wont work and its now all in my mind how this part of the roof comes together correctly since had we gone with the original thinking it would have been all screwed up. So somehow we do think while we're asleep. If that made any sense, I'm tired as hell and will hopefully have some sort of crazy dream tonight

[Scholarcs]

TV is so bad for you. Your brain sort of just shuts down.

I stopped watchin TV a few years ago when I discovered the world of computer gaming. It was so much more exciting being able to do what you like on the computer with other people rather than sit and drift along with the people in TV.

[Sir ReGiN]

Like Scholarcs, I've given up on TV (except for icehockey ) reading a book, or talking to a friend really beats sitting in front of the TV getting fed a whole lot of rubbish!
And as for sleepwalking, I actually woke up butt-naked outside a house that's three blocks from where I live (I used to sleep naked but not after that [img]tongue.gif[/img] )!!

[Barry the Sprout]

I have had all sorts of experiences like that Regin, but never usually that bad. I have woken up making a drink in the kitchen... having a shower at 2am... or simply walking around the hallways scaring the crap out of the other people in my hall of residence.

Once I woke up naked, but I had gone to sleep with clothes on. I looked everywhere in my room (its not that big!) and couldn't find them. My door was still locked, and I couldn't see them out the window. To this day I don't know where the clothes went. That scared me, but there probably isn't much I can do about it really.