Every Gamers Dream: A "Cure" for Sleep

In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness.

A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests. The discovery's first application will probably be in treatment of the severe sleep disorder narcolepsy.

The treatment is "a totally new route for increasing arousal, and the new study shows it to be relatively benign," said Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and a co-author of the paper. "It reduces sleepiness without causing edginess."

[felman87]

Gain a 1/3 of your life back with orex spray

[spandexxking]

i could see that being the future.kinda scary

[Nameless]

Somehow I can see a zombie movie being made out of this.

[sak500]

Replace the story picture with this one. Gamers dont looks like this girl.

[diatom]

but I'm dead sexy..

[mikeslemonade]

Use it only if you don't care that you will have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke when you're 50+.

[Tyler Durden]

in movies where humanity takes it too far and the world turns to sh*t

[Legend]

There is already a product available for insufflation that eliminates the need for sleep.

[TwissT]

This article makes so much sense it's scary.

[Prototype]

I have the cure for sleep; play an online game with about a 2-liter of Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos (I know people who do this).

An alternative is find a crack head and see what they suggest; guaranteed to never sleep again (those who watched Death Note know what I'm talking about).

[name]

I wish I didn't have to sleep. People don't realise just how much of their life they lose from sleep alone.

[mccomber]

How about polyphasic sleeping instead? Less sleep (or none) at night with several naps throughout the day to recharge. It was apparently what many great thinker's like da Vinci, Franklin and even Churchill did, and look what they accomplished in their lives.

I'd think that eliminating sleep entirely is pretty dangerous though, since it's still not entirely understood just what happens when we sleep, but there are plenty of studies on the very dangerous effects of not sleeping; it goes well beyond feeling tired and having trouble concentrating. I can easily picture people being addicted to this stuff and not knowing when to stop and just sleep when they can just take another hit of this stuff and perk back up.

On the other hand, I agree that it would be entirely awesome to not have to sleep if we didn't want to...

[INehalemEXI]

Interesting this may help meth addicts kick the habit.

I would think this would lead to abuse as well though. It would cause chemical imbalances in the brain and you would have an increase of crazy people.

[ZeroXMD]

Here's a cure for sleepiness....SLEEP! Come on, this is DARPA people (If it's darpa funded, it's darpa. Research) This is pretty much Synthetic Crack-Coke. Not the drink. This is not a good thing for gamers, as it will only produce one result, turning Humanity into robots. This takes away a naturally occuring bodily process. The side effects are prolly going to be tremendously bad, long term. Yea, someone doesn't look bad after doing meth, crack, or coke the first time, but it takes it's toll not that long down the road, like a sledgehammer when it does. This is not a good thing as it will produce more dead mmorpg'ers. They word it like it's an all natural thing. LOL. So, how did they get the "Brain Chemical". Extract it from other brains or make it synthetically? lol