Lots of animals are known to do this. Animals researchers wondered how marine mammals were able to sleep. Wouldn't you drown? Turns out dolphins sleep with half their brain awake, so they can surface and breathe. The brain hemispheres then take turns.
Certain species of ducks also sleep with half the brain. They get in a circle, with the awake eye facing out, and the sleeping eye in. (I guess if they have cross visual cortex nerves like we do, it means the brain hemisphere facing out is sleeping).
They tried the “hack” on one person and they apparently had a breakdown and killed themselves. Just a reminder not to take tips from “vegan Sith” who ended up rationalizing stabbing people as “double good” or some whacky shit like that.
The risk of giving yourself "split personalities" should not be underestimated.
I recently had a mild panic attack in which I became convinced that my subconscious was secretly working against me. It was terrifying, and I couldn't see a way to think myself out of it. In fact I thought the very fact that I was worrying about it proved that my subconscious had planted the idea in my conscious experience specifically to hurt me.
What worked was going for a short walk and physically touching the ground with my hands. "Touch grass" actually works sometimes, I think because if the stimuli of the mind are coming from within, then you have no way to override bad ones and you just get echoes of the same negative thing over and over again. Whereas if you can get stimulus of any kind from the external world, then you have something else to pay attention to, you can turn the focus outwards and the feedback loop subsides.
I no longer believe my subconscious is working against me. But I agreed to try to pay attention to its concerns and take them more seriously in the future, so that it has no reason to work against me.
The murders are very sad but the pseudo science here has some humor to it.
Like they take the fact that the brain really has two hemispheres, and make some wildly unscientific claim that this means each person has two beings within it that can be shut off at different times (one side may be good and the other bad, one side may be female and the other male).
I honestly don't see how anyone can into this stuff unless they are on drugs or malnourished.
iamwil|1 year ago
Certain species of ducks also sleep with half the brain. They get in a circle, with the awake eye facing out, and the sleeping eye in. (I guess if they have cross visual cortex nerves like we do, it means the brain hemisphere facing out is sleeping).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
So I guess if there's prior art, it's not a leap to think...maybe humans could try to do it too.
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jstanley|1 year ago
I recently had a mild panic attack in which I became convinced that my subconscious was secretly working against me. It was terrifying, and I couldn't see a way to think myself out of it. In fact I thought the very fact that I was worrying about it proved that my subconscious had planted the idea in my conscious experience specifically to hurt me.
What worked was going for a short walk and physically touching the ground with my hands. "Touch grass" actually works sometimes, I think because if the stimuli of the mind are coming from within, then you have no way to override bad ones and you just get echoes of the same negative thing over and over again. Whereas if you can get stimulus of any kind from the external world, then you have something else to pay attention to, you can turn the focus outwards and the feedback loop subsides.
I no longer believe my subconscious is working against me. But I agreed to try to pay attention to its concerns and take them more seriously in the future, so that it has no reason to work against me.
fasthands9|1 year ago
Like they take the fact that the brain really has two hemispheres, and make some wildly unscientific claim that this means each person has two beings within it that can be shut off at different times (one side may be good and the other bad, one side may be female and the other male).
I honestly don't see how anyone can into this stuff unless they are on drugs or malnourished.
sd9|1 year ago