More on this case and a similar injunction case decided last week www.thejournal.ie/high-court-o... #windfarm #noise #sleepdeprivation #cleanenergy #HumanRights
High Court orders total shutdo...
#sleepDeprivation
The world after midnight is not empty.
It hums with freelancers, coders, call center voices, and delivery apps glowing in silence.
Sleep has become a luxury. Labor never sleeps.
Full reflection: https://www.clickworlddaily.com/2025/05/the-300-am-economy-why-nobody-sleeps-in.html
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#sleepdeprivation #gigwork #mentalhealth #nightshift #burnout #workculture #economy
Unhinged behavior that I adore.
#InsomniaJam2025 has a new submission. It’s absolutely fucking unhinged and I love it. Here it is: https://itch.io/jam/insomnia-jam/rate/3547841 -Allēna #writingcommunity #shortfiction #unhinged #insomnia #sleepdeprivation #wtf
#insomnia #InsomniaJam2025 #shortfiction #sleepdeprivation #unhinged #writingcommunity #wtf
Maybe I shouldn't have started wearing my watch in bed... Some things might be better left unquantified.
#Sleep #Smartwatch #SleepDeprivation? #Insomnia? 🤔 #SleepTracking
😴✨ Ah, the groundbreaking revelation that sweating it out before bedtime might just turn you into a sleepless zombie. But who needs sleep anyway when you can spend your night wrestling with server errors that ensure you don’t, in fact, get any information. 🚫💤
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-bed-linked-disrupted.html #sleeplessnights #servererrors #sleepdeprivation #techstruggles #nighttimehustle #HackerNews #ngated
Sleep Deprivation, Fat Loss - Peter Attia on DOAC
#energyaccess #sleepdeprivation #insulinresistance #energy #fyp #explore #discover
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2025-03-31Compendium: Sleep & Fatigue Risk Management
Here’s an assortment of papers on sleep and occupational fatigue.
Focus is on articles I’ve summarised or full-text I could locate.
A few themes are covered:
- Sleep & Fatigue
- Fatigue impairment vs BAC / accidents / error
- Shiftwork design & research / Fatigue Risk Management Systems
- Fatigue codes and guidelines
- Fatigue as a performance shaping factor
Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site:
https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinsonSleep & Fatigue
https://www.pacdeff.com/pdfs/Dawson_McCulloch%20Managing%20Fatigue%20Its%20About%20Sleep.pdf
https://fatiguemanagersnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Darwent-et-al.2015_Managing-Fatigue.pdf
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11739-018-1873-3.pdf
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/pdf/10.5664/jcsm.9512
https://www.academia.edu/7558212/A_Model_to_Predict_Work_Related_Fatigue_Based_on_Hours_of_Work
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106398
https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/20/4/267/2732104?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0411/pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3260461/pdf/nihms340667.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/47/5/47_5_518/_pdf
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21485/dot_21485_DS1.pdf
https://hal.science/hal-02979271v1/file/Dutheil%20et%20al_NappingandCognitive_2020_SLEEP.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/43/1/43_1_24/_pdf
https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2592628/Rasmussen.pdf?sequence=4
https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/3772064.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9018855/pdf/nihms-1751171.pdf
https://www.icao.int/safety/fatiguemanagement/FRMSBangkok/4.%20Measuring%20Fatigue.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4457397/pdf/nihms662245.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14682-0.pdf
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/240875/1/Berastegui%20et%20al.%202019%20Safety%20Science.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S1369847821000875
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jonm.12513
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=338&file_nro=1
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/28122206/Author_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMLclacBNB8PVNq3yf7NCmy0D1UgxlOA/view
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757571/pdf/v055p00217.pdf
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211715&type=printable
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10903127.2017.1376135
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1128596/pdf/oenvmed00083-0047.pdf
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=620&file_nro=1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100076
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00227.x
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3233/WOR-2012-0724-4283
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3928/21650799-20140826-01
https://content.iospress.com/download/work/wor0587?id=work%2Fwor0587
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhe1972/30/1-2/30_1-2_53/_pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4778077/pdf/nihms761456.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4300442/pdf/hpp-4-165.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nuf.12454
https://imagesrvr.epnet.com/embimages/pdh2/ocp/ocp33265.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/26022536/The_effects_of_different_roster_schedules_on_sleep_in_miners
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/52/6/52_2014-0102/_pdf
Fatigue / Blood Alcohol Comparison / Accidents / Error
https://www.understandingaf447.com/extras/Alcohol-Fatigue.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1739867/pdf/v057p00649.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00220.x
https://www.hptc-pro.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Fatigue-Working-Under-the-Influence.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079217302095
https://www.academia.edu/31043016/Sleep_disorders_medical_conditions_and_road_accident_risk
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0310057X0002800209
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757738/pdf/v056p00289.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1765730/pdf/v060p00i88.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/43/1/43_1_20/_pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/57/2/57_SW-6/_pdf
https://www.academia.edu/58752542/Rest_breaks_and_accident_risk
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/45/1/45_1_125/_pdf
Shiftwork Design & Research / Fatigue Risk Management
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2011.11.001
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=341&file_nro=1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00225.x
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhe1972/30/1-2/30_1-2_9/_pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/07853899908998783
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/NSS.S10372
https://nascholingnoord.nl/presentaties/2013-02-07_Bambra_2008_Shifting_schedules.pdf
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/20808/dot_20808_DS1.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4539295/pdf/nihms707260.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106398
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292337045_Fatigue_Risk_Management_A_Maritime_Framework
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2022.08.002
https://asasi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dawson-et-al_Fatigue_ISASI04.pdf
https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/405/305/peek.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100104
https://repository.tudelft.nl/file/File_7c3f673c-8ef5-4f5f-b6bc-bdb7eb9165d9?preview=1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10903127.2017.1381791
Fatigue Codes and Guidelines
http://www.mineaccidents.com.au/uploads/gn16-fatigue-risk-management(1).pdf
https://humanfactors101.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/assessing-risks-from-operator-fatigue.pdf
https://www.hpog.org/assets/documents/WEB-Guidance-on-managing-fatigue-16.04.14.pdf
https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/iogp-report-626-managing-fatigue-in-the-workplace/
https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/performance-indicators-for-fatigue-risk-management-systems/
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/1137975/qh-gdl-401-3.3.PDF
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/system/files/documents/1702/managing-the-risk-of-fatigue.pdf
https://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Documents/Safety/MSH_COP_WorkingHours.pdf
Summaries & Abstracts
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/chronic-sleep-loss-and-occupational-injury/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/shift-length-sleep-and-disabling-low-back-pain/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/02/25/sleep-problems-and-work-injuries/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/shift-length-and-productivity-12-h-and-8-h/
LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/compendium-sleep-fatigue-risk-management-ben-hutchinson-crahc
#appletonInstitute #circadianRhythm #cqu #dawson #fatigue #fatigueRisk #fatigueRiskManagementSystem #mcculloch #occupationalFatigue #ohs #osha #safety #safetyScience #sleep #sleepDeprivation #sleepLoss #sleepRestriction #universityOfSouthAustralia #whs
Oh boy, a 2h40m long video from Contrapoints? Yay! But also ouch. #sleepdeprivation
Night works outside our house for the next four nights 😭😭
Igniting the Mind: Exploring the Kindling Hypothesis and Its Impact on Brain Health
#KindlingHypothesis #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #OxidativeStress #SleepDeprivation #MentalHealth #Neurobiology #ProtectYourBrain #StressManagement #ScienceExplained #HealthyMind #WellnessJourney
One might think a snowy Sunday morning in New England would be quiet and peaceful.
But the loud pickup trucks revving their engines outside my apartment from 3am to 5am beg to differ.
(Where are those electric vehicles?)
A small study found that sleep-deprived individuals given a single high dose of creatine (~5x a typical supplementation dose) showed increased cognitive performance for up to 9 hours.
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54249-9
@DavidBHimself I will try to use #hackstacks as well. Just because the point of vuluntary opt-out is very valid... In de past hours I spilled beens about #Healthcare #Sleepdeprivation #Wealth #Money #Humankind as a whole and my nightly #Misantropy surrounding it to return home to #Shopping and #Groceries and my #StampCollection of stamps for Children -- I see that this might aggravate some people ;-)
»Back in 2018, PET scanning was used to show that one night of #SleepDeprivation resulted in substantial increase in β-amyloid accumulation, in regions of the brain linked to #Alzheimer’s disease. On a chronic basis, several studies have shown that poor sleep is prospectively linked to the risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.«
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/our-sleep-brain-aging-and-waste-clearance
Revolutionary Sleep Study Finds Perfect Amount of Sleep Is However Much You Can't Get #creativity #Humor #Insomnia #Productivity #Satire #sleep #SleepDeprivation https://lighthousenewsnetwork.com/revolutionary-sleep-study-finds-perfect-amount-of-sleep-is-however-much-you-cant-get/?feed_id=13345&_unique_id=678c4eadb4ebc
A Classic Example of What Not to Do
Hello, everyone! Lazarus here. I was talking with Emerson about this web design class he was sitting in today, and we both came to the conclusion that I would be Immediately Sacked if I ever taught a web design class in real life. However, that did not stop my exceedingly sleepy brainhole from vividly imagining a darker universe in which I was, in fact, put in charge of teaching Web Design Class.
Here are a few, very imaginary scenarios of me teaching said class.
As you can see, I should never ACTUALLY teach Web Design Class. I am far too cantankerous for that. However, I found it hysterically funny to imagine these scenes.
I should probably skitter off and get some more sleep. Before I leave, however, have one more, completely unrelated scenario as a treat.
I hope y’all enjoyed my Sleepy Brainhole Fiction. Jesus indeed wept this day.
Stay tuned for more magic!
-Lazarus ✨🪕
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As a child, I was a terrible sleeper. My parents would often find me awake at 3 AM with a flashlight under the covers reading a Hardy Boy, Nancy Drew, or Tom Swift book. When I was 9-years-old, my pediatrician prescribed an awful tasting medicine to be taken at night, mixed with pineapple juice to mask the flavor. Years later, I found out that the medicine was actually a heavy duty narcotic, sometimes called a “Mickey Finn.” Needless to say, I was just never a good sleeper. In my adult years, I often explained away my sleeping habits by swearing that 4-5 hours of sleep a night was all I needed.
My colleagues and I at California State University, Dominguez Hills, conducted sleep research that stems from my lab’s work on the “psychology of technology,” where we have discovered two important variables that encourage us to use (and misuse) technology, thereby losing sleep: (1) poor executive functioning, which includes our (in)ability to pay attention, problem solve, control our impulses, and make decisions, and (2) anxiety. In our work, anxiety is sometimes referred to as FOMO, or the fear of missing out. We see this anxiety in the majority of smartphone users who feel uncomfortable if they are not in direct contact with their phones — and their many electronic connections — 24/7/365. A dead battery and no charger can bring upon a panic attack.
In our study of more than 700 college students, we found that while poor executive functioning did predict sleep problems, the stronger effect was actually due to anxiety. The students who were more anxious about being apart from their phones used their phones more during a typical day, and woke up to check their phones more often at night. The latter two results — more daily smartphone use and more nighttime awakenings — led directly to sleep problems.
Why does anxiety about needing to stay in contact negatively impact sleep? First, those who are anxious about staying connected are more likely to use their technology right up until bedtime. We now know that the blue wavelength light from LED-based devices (phones, tablets, computers) increases the release of cortisol in the brain, which makes us more alert, and inhibits the production of melatonin, which is needed to fall asleep. That’s why The National Sleep Foundation recommends turning off all devices an hour prior to bedtime. The Mayo Clinic says that if you do choose to use technology during the hour before bedtime, keep it 14 inches from your face and dim the brightness, which helps reduce the blue light and increases the natural melatonin release. A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School found that compared to reading a paper book, people who read from an e-book needed an additional 10 minutes to fall asleep. They experienced 90 minutes of delayed melatonin onset — and had half the amount of melatonin released. They also had diminished rapid eye movement sleep. To compound these effects, anxious people have more cortisol in their system, which further stymies sleep. Anxious people also tend to have shorter attention spans — our own research has shown that they switch tasks every 3-5 minutes. This frenetic task switching increases stress — and cortisol — creating a vicious cycle. Finally, anxious people are more likely to sleep with their phone close by and check it when they awaken at night, which then further disrupts sleep.
Consider how vitally important sleep is to our health. In the 1950s and 1960s, William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman illuminated the process of sleep. Basically, for normally well-rested people, sleep happens in a series of 90-minute bursts, each ending with a dream. Leading up to the dream are four critical phases responsible for synaptic rejuvenation, or the process of pruning away unneeded mental connections and consolidating or reinforcing needed ones. In addition, various molecular byproducts of thinking are left in the brain throughout the day, which are then washed away during normal sleep. Included among these are beta amyloids, which have been found in abundance in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. (For more on the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease, see this brief.) When you are not well rested, these phases — and the brain’s housekeeping chores — are disrupted. Further, if you awaken someone every time they start dreaming, they will soon skip the four phases and go straight into REM dream sleep, reducing synaptic rejuvenation.
The National Sleep Foundation has shown that we are in the midst of a 50-year decline in sleep duration, and one study found that 90% of Americans use their gadgets within the last hour before bedtime at least a few nights a week. They also found that the average college student loses 46 minutes of sleep each night due to answering phone calls or checking for messages. Add it all up, and we are all running the risk of a massive sleep debt that is not going to allow our sleeping brain to do its job. Sleep deprivation is leading to less efficient learning, higher emotionality, increased anxiety, and a less efficient brain.
So how do you reduce your nighttime anxiety and permit your brain to sleep effectively? Here are some suggestions:
During the day, practice not reacting to incoming alerts or notifications like one of Pavlov’s dogs. Don’t check your phone every time it beeps. In fact, turn off notifications and check on a schedule to retrain your brain’s neurotransmitters (particularly cortisol). Start by checking every 15 minutes, and gradually increase that to 30 minutes or more. Tell your family, friends, and colleagues that you may not respond immediately, but you will within a specified amount of time, such as 30 minutes to an hour later.
Stop using all devices one hour prior to sleep.
Put all devices away in another room rather than keep them in the bedroom to discourage you from checking them during the night. (If you must keep a phone nearby in case of emergency, set it so that it only rings when certain people are calling, but still place it across the room and away from your bedside.)
An hour before bedtime, start dimming the room lights slowly to release melatonin.
During the last hour before bedtime, choose an activity that your brain will find predictable and, thus, not anxiety-provoking. Consider any of the following:
Watch a television show that you love, maybe even a repeat.
Read a paper book (or use a Kindle which doesn’t emit blue light) by a familiar author.
Listen to music that is very familiar like a playlist of your favorite songs. If you need a device to do this, burn CDs and get a CD player. (The key is to use a device that doesn’t have internet access, email, or a phone.) Keep the volume low.
If you awaken in the middle of the night, try this trick: have a song lyric in mind (not the whole song) that you plan to sing in your mind over and over to block the anxiety and allow you to fall back to sleep. Another option is to learn one of many meditation techniques and practice and use those skills to calm your mind.
Our devices are a gift that connect us to so many people and so much information, but they do not have to raise our anxiety and harm our all-important sleep. We need to control our devices, rather than letting them control us.
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In a multi-experiment study, Williams et al. investigated, if moderate intensity exercise can improve impairment in executive function caused by #sleepdeprivation & #hypoxia. Participants performed executive test at rest and during moderate intensity cycling, while PortaLite measured prefrontal brain oxygenation. #fNIRS
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpheart.00662.2023
Revolutionary Sleep Study Finds Perfect Amount of Sleep Is However Much You Can't Get #creativity #Humor #Insomnia #Productivity #Satire #sleep #SleepDeprivation https://lighthousenewsnetwork.com/revolutionary-sleep-study-finds-perfect-amount-of-sleep-is-however-much-you-cant-get/?feed_id=12799&_unique_id=677d9ab676d15
Down Every Rabbit Hole, Everywhere
Hey, everyone. Lazarus again, back once more with your daily dose of bullshit, hehe. It’s been a slow day so far, both in my brain and otherwise. If you guessed that insomnia is still sort of kicking my ass, you got it in one. But being tired can have its advantages, namely that it makes me fucking funny. Do I have less object permanence than normal, though? Absolutely. I’m losing every single worldly possession of mine over here.
Sheik of the Zelda System is gaming beside me after binge watching several episodes of Supernatural season seven, as has winding our way through that absolute shit show become our tradition on their days off. So I’ve got my headphones on and am simply seeing where my brainhole takes me. We both appeared to have great dates last night, them with our mutual beloved Emerson (and the leftovers I received were fucking amazing, as well) and I had a great virtual date with my darling Autumn. They’re wickedly funny, and kept making me cackle with laughter midsentence. I had needed that date, to be honest. It had been a few weeks since our last one and I missed them something fucking fierce. There’s been much less drama and fewer trashfires of late, and times like these remind me that polyamory is truly a wonderful experience. No regrets. I can’t ever go back, even when shit gets rough. I’m just not built that way.
Now, seeing as my mind feels like pudding that has been repeatedly electrocuted, I’m probably gonna leave y’all for the day. Will my brain let me fucking sleep? Probably not. Am I about to go down a research rabbit hole trying to figure out who a certain actress was in an episode of Supernatural? Oh yeah. That’s been on the agenda since I first saw the actress and recognized her as the same actress who plays Kaylee Frye in Firefly, haha. My brain needs to DEFINITELY be stopped. At least I’m attempting to rest, right?
[crickets chirp faintly in the distance]
Anyway. Before I go, memes. I can’t just skitter away without DEPRIVING y’all!
Why are Facebook ads Like This?Stay tuned for more magic, y’all. And tomfuckery. There’s always that.
Your eternally insleepriated sorcerer,
-Lazarus
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