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Hi Warriors,
Last night, I just had 2 hours of sleep and my mind was as alert as a police dog. This doesn't happen very often. And the only difference I can think of is that I ate a large bowl of hot (I mean extreme chili-hot) noodles, 4 hours before my regular sleeping time. Now I'm not sure if that's the cause of it. Anyone has any explanation for this? Normally, I'd be sleeping peacefully at those times. But now, I can't sleep; so I just went to work and had more tasks done. ![]() Cheers, Michael |
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Hi Michael,
Yesterday I slept like 3 hours. I did an interview with Reed who is in US and we are 13 hours difference. By the time is over, I can only sleep at 4am after tidying up. And I woke up at 7am. Now I have a splitting headache. Help! John |
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So Michael,
You are burning your stomach with chilies to keep you awake? He..he.. That really funny ideas. I guess after you eating that noodles, your body temperature feel the warm and its refresh you. The same effect we have when our brain still active and we are eager to do something and full of motivation. |
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Yesterday I slept about 4 hours (otherwise 6+ hours normally) and I felt so sleepy, lazy and inactive in class today. I should have tried a really hot chilli before going to class. How long does the chilli effect occur and then you start to feel sleepy again.
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Interesting that ultra spicy food would play a factor. It may work if you need to pull an all-nighter for a product launch, but I'm thinking that after while the lack of sleep will catch up to you. And in a bad way.
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Hey guys, I don't recommend doing this unless you've got some very important things to catch up on.
Getting enough sleep is still vital to your health. And I think too much spicy foods can hurt your stomach and may even cause ulcers. So proceed at your own risk. I was able to sleep for 3 hours only... 20 hours later after I ate the chili.
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I use to work 3rd shift. The hours were from 10:45 pm to 6:45 am Monday through Friday nights. I also watched my kids during the daytime. I would sleep maybe 3 or 4 hours a day, usually interrupted. I did this for almost 2 years. I completely understand not sleeping a lot. But I never found that spicy food helped. Perhaps it was a coincidence?
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There is a good explanation for this. The chili peppers contain cayenne, which has many medicinal properties that have been known for a very long time. Cayenne's medicinal properties are derived from something called, capsaicin.
Capsaicin is considered by many to be the most powerful herbs for improving circulation. It greatly improves blood flow and is used to treat a number of other things. The concentration of capsaicin is directly proportional to the amount of "heat" in cayenne... or chili peppers. You can buy cayenne in capsule form. I worked rotating 12 hour shifts for about 9 years. And I usually kept a bottle of cayenne capsules on standby when I knew it was gonna be a rough night. It works... as you discovered for yourself. Obviously, the greatly improved blood flow enriches your entire body with oxygen. All that increased blood flow kept you alert, and awake. But I don't recommend it for constant use. You need sleep, as you know. |
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Everyone's body is different, but I find that I'm a lot sharper and energized _right_ after working out.
More generally, though, exercising regularly is supposed to improve your sleep, strengthen your immune system and give you more energy overall. |
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I've also done the cayenne pepper capsules (and was heavily into spicy foods as well). Then, at a young age, I started getting bad arthritis in my hands. My hands sometimes felt as if I had large heavy gloves on all the time and it was very awkward to hold onto the steering wheel of my car. Somewhere I read about the tendency of vegetables in the nightshade family - peppers (such as cayenne, chili, green, etc., but not black pepper), tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant - to promote arthritis. Something about a toxic ingredient they all share called solanine. I gave up the nightshades and within a day or two the arthritis was gone. |
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Hi p4t,
Thanks for your post. I'm NOT arguing with you, and not opposed to what you said. I'm genuinely open to the idea that the spiritual controls the physical. But do you have any proof of that? How would a person learn for certain that the spiritual controls the physical or that demons were interfering with their sleep? Sincerely, David |
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Hi guys, Thanks for the feedback. P4t, I don't usually have problem sleeping, except the time after I ate the chili. I usually go to dreamland just a few seconds after I rest my head on the pillow. For those who are having sleepless nights, honey is a good remedy. Cheers, Michael | |
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I always sleep exactly 4 hours...
And wake up extremely refreshed ![]() I used to sleep about 9 hours but after reading a book about sleeping and the cycles I soon discovered how to wake up without being tired. You have to wake up in between the cycle REM and your first cycle. This is only a gap of a few minutes. To find the gap you need to find how long your full cycle is. Mine is 90 min so i times 90 by 3 cycles so i sleep 270 minutes. I'm typing really quick, but if you want to know how to pin point your sleep cycle or if you want a great book on it just let me know. It has been proven that those who sleep between 4-8 hours and healtier and live longer than those who sleep 8+ Zach
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Regulae practice of doing meditation can also be very helpful to improve the quality of the sleep and reduced time of sleep. You may want to take a look for free meditation coaching at Brahma Kumaris Official Website - Home
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i think i read somewhere that chilies have ingredients in it that can actually help in weight loss
so maybe the reason why you felt more awake after eating that is because it fastens your metabolism, i think (i've never tried those chili capsules, where can i get them?) careful though, aside from arthritis that the others have mentioned, i think eating spicy food worsens hemorrhoids, irritant on your other end, we don't want that... |
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I wouldn't mind less sleep sometimes. I might try the chilli thing. But hey, what's with that pink text? ouch
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Hi Zach,
Thanks for that post. I'd like to know how to pinpoint the cycles, and I'd like to know about the book, too. That could be very helpful |
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I've had this same thing happen a few times from eating different foods. Most people just watch out for caffeine and other known stimulants but its surprising the effects that some foods will have on a person. I always stay away from the spicy food before bed as it tends to give me weird dreams as well as sleeplessness. | |
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Ditto for weird dreams & restlessness from spicy foods.
If I eat chicken, or ostrich burger (yes), or beans, or Thai food for dinner, I'm often wide awake at 2am for an hour or two. It's not the protein doing it because I can eat beef or fish or buffalo or whatever other protein without effect. Also if I snack on peanut butter later in the evening I'll get what they call "restless leg syndrome" - having to move my legs around a lot. Apparently has to do with too much fat intake that causes the blood to sludge up and not flow freely. Then your legs automatically want to move around a bunch to help keep the blood flowing. Dairy products of any kind in the evening may tend to cause nasal stuffiness leading to reduced quality of sleep or drippy / stuffy / sneezy symptoms in the morning after wake up. |
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I was curious about this thread. Interesting mix of topics since I last posted.
Rainbow... I didn't know that about the nightshades. Actually its been a long time since I indulged in the cayenne thing. Fortunately haven't had any problems with arthritis symptoms. I have read, recently, that sleep deprivation has been used as a form of torture. (Even today in certain 'official' places.) But don't even wanna go there. No pun intended. I've also read that extreme sleep deprivation will cause extreme psychotic episodes including hallucinations. So... I'd really be interested to hear about the person who stayed awake for over a week. Must have been a helluva week. |
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If you want an esoteric explanation for sleeplessness following the intake of spicy food, I'll tell you what Traditional Chinese Medicine says about it:
Sleep occurs when the spiritual aspect of the body, referred to as the "Shen", finds its way back to the heart (organ), where it resides at night, bringing peace and tranquility. Since the heart is associated with the Fire element, and is a Fire organ, adding heat to your system accelerates the activity of the heart (i.e. circulation) and prevents the Shen from finding peaceful residence there for the night. Therefore, you can't sleep. Nightfall is meant to bring stillness and peacefulness, and bring about a natural quiting effect that is calming and restful. Night is also associated with Yin (stillness), while daily activity is associated with Yang energy (animation)--so, taking in a Yang (hot) spicy food at night, invigorates the circulation and has a Yang-effect that counter-acts the normally Yin aspect of night-time, and is another reason that you are promoting sleeplessness with hot foods, eaten too late at night. And, yes, I am a Licensed Chinese Medical practitioner, so I'm not making it up. Honest! |
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Thats Awesome John,
Very interesting! Does too much coffee have the same effect? |
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I usually sleep about 8-10 hours a day. My only work is online though.
It still takes me along time to start to feel energized though, so I usually wake up eat take a shower then check my paypal account that is when I begin to jump for joy and annoy my family with all my energy and opptimism. i get pretty alive when I discovered how much I made in my sleep. I would also like to find a group of people to do morning wake up and motivation calls with people all over the country or even the world for that matter. Wouldnt it be great to wake up and associate with successful and like minded people from all over the world at the begining of every day, or a few times a week |
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I normally only actually sleep about 4 hours a night and wake alert and ready to go. I am a morning person and don't normally rest until I have done what I set out to do for the day and fall in a heap to rest in the evening. I'm either vertical and on the go or flaked out.
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Michael, I tried what you did and it worked for me too! I'll probably be doing this everytime I need to stay awake for important projects.
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Yes well eating spicy food especially food with chilies will increase the metabolism.. however the affects will be slightly different for each person.. I cant believe any person would eat anything let alone spicy food right before bed??
I dont believe you will be able to consistantly keep this up though, but one product I recommend is GABA it induces a natural deep REM splle so that 4 hrs feels like 8.. |
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hmm eating spicy food before bed gives me a terrible sleep!
Glad it worked for you though
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I slept over 12 hours last night and am still incredibly tired and I'm not sure why.
Here's what I ate for dinner yesterday... One large bag of Funions One Skittle found under the stove One burnt Hot Pocket eaten over the stove One bottle of Root Beer Any ideas? Chris Elliott Web Site Copywriter For Hire | Direct Response Salesletter & Web Site Copywriting Services |
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Hi Chris,
This is a friendly reply from someone who has been there! You mentioned that you recently ate for dinner ... "One large bag of Funions(Were you kidding perhaps? I hope??!! At least about the Skittle??) If not, I don't think it's at all surprising that you felt tired the next day! What you described as your dinner was a meal VERY high in over- processed carbohydrates, full of fat, salt, and sugar. Pure "junk food." More precisely, pure junk. You also took on a load of highly-unnatural, added chemicals - including MSG (monosodium glutamate) which is a neurotoxin (poisonous to brain / nerve cells). Your body wasn't designed to have that kind of stuff on the inside. There was very little in the way of good nutrition for your body in that meal; very little protein; virtually no enzymes; and next to nothing in the way of other nutrients that your body actually needs in order to function correctly, except carbs, and those were of the lowest quality possible. There was very little actual food in that so-called "food"! If you eat like that very often, I can virtually guarantee that you'll end up overweight, unhealthy, with bad skin, feeling tired, with poor digestion, and having rotten moods much of the time. And possibly addicted to other substances such as caffeine or nicotine as your body & brain seek relief from the internal chemical storm, low energy, and biological / neurological stress. You might want to read one or two good books on food and nutrition by authors such as: John McDougall, Dean Ornish, Susan Powter, or Gary Null. Any one of them will get you off to a good start. These folks tend to be vegetarian, so you may or may not differ with them in that regard. But they will certainly give you a boatload of very solid knowledge about what is healthy and why. The vast majority of books on nutrition are misleading, so you have to be judicious in what you read. (Who was the famous author who said something like, "80% of everything is crap!"? Well, that goes for nutrition books, too.) "The McDougall Plan" is one book that I've used extensively. McDougall is an M.D. (which isn't a guarantee of anything because they seriously do not teach nutrition in medical school) and each chapter ends with a long list of references to the scientific studies supporting his conclusions. That guy does his homework. He specializes in nutrition and has been doing it for perhaps 25 years now. Best Wishes, David Campbell / rainbow21 P.S. I've spent a LOT of time studying nutrition and fitness over the years, and used to work in a preventive & stress medicine clinic, where there was an emphasis on nutrition. I was talking with a close relative who had recently graduated from Baylor medical school - one of the top med schools in the country. I asked him, "how many courses did they give you on nutrition?" He gave me a wry look, made a circle with thumb and forefinger, and said, "Zero!" That's the norm, not the exception. |
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LOL!
Hi David, Yes, it was a joke. I also write a comedy blog and that was adapted from a post I had previously written. I was hoping to get some laughs but it seems that everyone saw it and assumed it was true which I find even more funny...hehe Chris Elliott Web Site Copywriter For Hire | Direct Response Salesletter & Web Site Copywriting Services |
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I haven't slept more than 3 hours a night for the past 3 years.
I have 4-5 meals a day (not normal sized meals, smaller), and try to eat healthy. For the post dinner snack/meal it's normally some type of ice cream or something cold. Gives you some extra sugar, and makes for a great desert too. Maybe i'm just really weird. |
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I'm a strong DISBELIEVER in sleep deprivation. In college, I saw friends try those crazy 3-hour sleep regimens with all sorts of promises but nothing good ever came out of it.
Here's what wikipedia has to say: "Sleep deprivation can adversely affect brain function.[4] A 2000 study, by the UCSD School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in San Diego, used functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to monitor activity in the brains of sleep-deprived subjects performing simple verbal learning tasks.[5] The study showed that regions of the brain's prefrontal cortex displayed more activity in sleepier subjects. Depending on the task at hand, the brain would sometimes attempt to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of sleep. ... A 2001 study at Chicago Medical Institute suggested that sleep deprivation may be linked to more serious diseases, such as heart disease and mental illnesses, such as psychosis and bipolar disorder." Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Interesting thread.
One thing that's always kept me awake even to the point that on a couple of occasions I don't end up sleeping for the whole day is dark chocolate. It must be the cocoa or the sugar. I'm not exactly sure, but when eating that, especially late at night, I'm always wide awake and alert. |
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A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on stevepavlina.com
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Hi, for many years I was involved in sports, training for Track.
We learned the most of what happens from diet and rest is what you've done 2 or 3 days before. Your bodt stores up the energy. So try looking at the past 1/2 week and see what you did right. |
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I've been sleeping for 3 hours a day since the last few days. I don't know, I just can't sleep well, I keep thinking about all the things I could do (internet marketing!) at that time instead of sleeping. I get so excited I could not sleep, and surprisingly I'm well refreshed the next morning.
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4 hours for me for years... eyes pop open at the 4 hour mark and there's no use in even trying after that. Gonna try the cayenne trick just for the mid afternoon hours that start to get rough.
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My sleep times vary...
It depends on how much coffee and caffeine I've taken in for the day... Sometimes I can sleep for only 2 hours...fall asleep at 4am and wake up at 6am... bright as a light... other times I'd be asleep at 11pm and wake up at 7pm... NOT 7AM... 7pm... Pavon |
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Been there, done that. 3 or 2 hours sleep thingy. My advice: If you care in any way about your appearance and health, get enough sleep...the whole 8-9 yards. Or you're asking for trouble.
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I've been going on about 4 hours sleep for a few years. One day a week I try to sleep about 7 hours.
One thing that really helps me keep alert and not tired is a 30 minute session on a light and sound machine. (Google "light and sound machine") Basically what it does is it uses light waves and sound waves to recreate the same brainwave frequency as deep sleep. You can use it for relaxation, creative learning, etc... When your done you feel like you had deep restful sleep for hours. Pretty neat science... |
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i slept at 2am and woke up at 5am well i think i slept at 2 am could of been after. I am pretty tired. I wish i could sleep for 4 hrs a day and be energetic. Ill give it a try for a couple of days and see if my body can get use to it!
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Everything is about Moderation baby!
I will never be a plant sitting in a pot watching everyone else. But I pray I never die of a heart attack pretending to be a freshmen running for the track team in the Hurdles competition. When I look at some commercials I have to just laugh.....because there is marketing in everything! But I really do not think they care much about my health. ![]() We have to sleep just as much as we live, if you really want to live long. Sleep deprivation is really life deprivation. |
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I don't know that I could function on just 2 hours of sleep a day. Most folks I know that sleep less than 8 hours a day also have add or adhd, and quite a few of them don't mind it a bit. Alas I don't have that, and I love to sleep. I also love to listen to the rain early in the morning, preferably on a weekend so that I don't have to get up.
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Hi,
I'm also the person who believe that a good sleep is crucial to a healthy life as sleeping is the time when our body "fixes" the "wrongs". But in not-so-rare time when I have to awake longer (deadly deadlines, etc.), I will sleep first - one hour or two, at most - wake up, wash my face and eat a little, then take my time until the morning or even the next day to finish whatever I have to finish. This way I can work more fresh, not sleepy, and more focus; compared to forcing myself to work first and sleep later. The caveats: you have to be sure you can wake up after the short sleep (using really loud alarm or ask your spouse to poke you with a needle or something less brutal), and you have to have a very strong will power to stay awake. If you can get through the first half hour, you'll be save. |
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hmm... well, i haven't slept a wink since like uh... 20 hours already? ahah...
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The russian electrosleep machines utilize the principle that the current polarity in the brain naturally reverses when you sleep or lose consciousness. Apparatus for electrosleep therapy "Adapton SLEEP" You can read about this phenomenon in the book "body electric" | |
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