User talk:MrSandman

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[edit] Image:REM.jpg

Thanks for your contribution at Polysomnography! But we have to cleanup two issues concerning the image:

  • You overwrote the image needed for R.E.M. (band) (short image names are problematic due to this problem)
  • You didn't state license and source of the image.

If you just affirm that you've done the image and release it into the public domain, I can do the cleanup. Even better would be a PNG version of the image, as in the JPG version, image compression artefacts are visible.

Pjacobi 22:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)


I uploaded a .png image. The image is not great quality to begin with....it was a Windows screenshot originally. I'll change my other references to this image. This, like all of the images I upload regarding sleep, are my own images. Sorry I didn't specify.

MrSandman 22:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)


Thanks! I've restored the R.E.M. image. --Pjacobi 22:36, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Coffee and Sleep

Hi MrSandman, I just had my last university exam of this year and so I'll have much more time to search for the rather unusual uses of coffee. I'll ask questions in sleep disorder forums so I can abandon both "my girlfriend works in an old age's pension where coffee is used" and the German website strategy. Mh, in the German Wikipedia weblinks to English pages are quite common... --Keimzelle 19:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The metabolic significance of sleep

I appreciate your invitation to extend a link covering the discoveries regarding sleep & obesity and the effects of sleep deprivation on insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction. I don't know when I'll get the time to begin on this but I would like to accept the challenge to do it when I can because I feel so strongly that the key to a better understanding what sleep & wakefulness are, 'balancing' states, has much to do with understanding the 'balancing' states of metabolism - anabolism & catabolism. I certainly have the long-term interest in pursuing the understanding of what sleep and wakefulness are. I do think that the answer to 'Why do we sleep' will only be found if we simultaneously ask the question 'Why do we wake up'. Since the topic isn't something that I can deal with in the course of my 'day job' the only practical way for me to pursue it is to adopt this viewpoint as my working hypothesis and starting point. All I can really hope to do is to find a way to fit together on a framework some of the pieces of such a puzzle that real scientists have been able to build. --GeneMosher 23:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 72 degs

Interesting. Can you give me the references to the 72degs vs REM, etc? I found that I'm very sensitive to cooling by radiation, i.e., I sense when the enclosure's walls are below 72 deg C. By sense I mean shivering and perhaps EDS. About the tryptophan, narcoleptics might be more sensitive: anechdotal stories in private forums indicate that narcoleptics have learned to avoid turkey because makes them sleepy. My comment about the air conditioner was to signal to Keimzelle that thre are more ways to change the temp of a room than those that the one he affirmed categorically and which is OK only for him in Central Europe, not in the Arctic or in the desert. Jclerman 03:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anthropology of sleep

thanks for your kind comment. I was fascinated by a radio documentary on the subject and decided to add some mention. Keep up the good work Peregrine981 05:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What program's in those screenshots?

What program's that in your screenshots, like this one and this one? --Ihope127 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Alice 4: http://www.mayohealthcare.com.au/products/homecare_sleepDiagnos_alice4_profile.htm

MrSandman 01:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your "Image:SWS.jpg"

Stage 3 or stage 4?
Stage 3 or stage 4?

is described on the Commons page as stage 3 in one section and as stage 4 in another.

The 'Summary' section says: "This is a screen shot of a patient during Slow Wave Sleep (stage N3)."

The 'File History' section says: "This a screen shot of a polysomnogram of a patient in Slow Wave Sleep (stage 4)."

Which is it, please? Thanks, --Hordaland (talk) 07:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)


It is stage 4. When I posted the image, SWS generally referred to stage 4 sleep.

Thank you! --Hordaland (talk) 08:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)