I don’t think that’s much of a problem. People get “hangry” too and that doesn’t invalidate the usefulness of fasting nor does it imply that fasting has to be miserable like that.
I think any prolonged discomfort that is unaddressed is going to make people cranky and bias them towards negative explanations of things. Address the discomfort, and the experience can change dramatically.
Perhaps the most useful thing I got out of experimenting with polyphasic sleep was a recognition of how well I could function when sleep deprived so long as I wasn’t constantly battling an unaddressed urge to sleep. Sleep deprivation still made me dumber, but the crankiness and most of the dysfunction was actually a result of trying to ignore (and yet not completely tuning out) my body screaming at me to sleep. Having a reference experience for being sleep deprived without craving sleep made it a lot easier to function when an hour or two short, and also more willing to go take a nap when I need one.
I don’t think that’s much of a problem. People get “hangry” too and that doesn’t invalidate the usefulness of fasting nor does it imply that fasting has to be miserable like that.
I think any prolonged discomfort that is unaddressed is going to make people cranky and bias them towards negative explanations of things. Address the discomfort, and the experience can change dramatically.
Perhaps the most useful thing I got out of experimenting with polyphasic sleep was a recognition of how well I could function when sleep deprived so long as I wasn’t constantly battling an unaddressed urge to sleep. Sleep deprivation still made me dumber, but the crankiness and most of the dysfunction was actually a result of trying to ignore (and yet not completely tuning out) my body screaming at me to sleep. Having a reference experience for being sleep deprived without craving sleep made it a lot easier to function when an hour or two short, and also more willing to go take a nap when I need one.