This “”unihemispheric sleep” thing seems like it came from crazy and is an excellent way to produce even more crazy. A tale as old as time: small group of people produce some interesting ideas and all is mostly fine until they either take too many drugs or get the bright idea of intentionally messing up their sleep. This starts a self reinforcing loop of drugs / messed up sleep causing crazy causing drugs / messed up sleep causing even more crazy.
Sleep deprivation is a traditional mind-control technique in cults; makes it difficult to disbelieve.
Of course you can’t just tell your recruits “I need you to be sleep-deprived so that you will find my teaching more credible”. Instead, there is so little time and so much work to do. Also, waking up early is healthy (but somehow we forget that going to bed early is healthy, too).
Using sleep deprivation as a way to “know yourself” is an interesting new take. You don’t even have to organize the work and the early meditations/prayers, your recruits will voluntarily keep themselves sleep-deprived even when there is absolutely nothing to do. Amazing!
This “”unihemispheric sleep” thing seems like it came from crazy and is an excellent way to produce even more crazy. A tale as old as time: small group of people produce some interesting ideas and all is mostly fine until they either take too many drugs or get the bright idea of intentionally messing up their sleep. This starts a self reinforcing loop of drugs / messed up sleep causing crazy causing drugs / messed up sleep causing even more crazy.
Sleep deprivation is a traditional mind-control technique in cults; makes it difficult to disbelieve.
Of course you can’t just tell your recruits “I need you to be sleep-deprived so that you will find my teaching more credible”. Instead, there is so little time and so much work to do. Also, waking up early is healthy (but somehow we forget that going to bed early is healthy, too).
Using sleep deprivation as a way to “know yourself” is an interesting new take. You don’t even have to organize the work and the early meditations/prayers, your recruits will voluntarily keep themselves sleep-deprived even when there is absolutely nothing to do. Amazing!