Zangetshumody
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I just spent some time constructing a response to a person's question on reddit, I thought it merited a thread on the topic, in light of the elements I used to answer the question.. I guess I don't want this thread to be about the original question, but on the contents of my explanation.
ELI5: Why does an extreme lack of sleep seem to temporarily change an individuals mannerisms and personality?
-my answer-
The emphasis of my explanation is on the psychological component. First, when understanding psychology, one must reduce the biological mechanisms into reductions, that can be understood in the realm of psychology.
Firstly then, let me deal with the mechanical utility of sleep; sleep is basically rejuvenation that assists the mind to clear up obstructions, without disrupting organisations and structures of thought, which are overwhelmed by their own haphazard inconsistency, with a challenge posed by allusion to any (implicit or patent) acknowledgments about a repressed truth. Usually structures of thought are insulated, so as to assure continuity of those structures, truth must therefore be filtered and contained into a safe (complex of) compatibility that interfaces with a dominant sense of self. On a fundamental level then, the structure of thought, as it relates to this sense of self (or ego), is technically fudged, or incoherent in some sense— that forms the ego's imagined sense of the left over, empty horizon, or "tera incognito", with which the ego must fortify and defend itself— from unveiling the incoherence of "itself" within all (operative) acknowledgments by this 'sense of self' (this is very similar to the concept of cognitive dissonance, but taken on a deeper level, where it is not the concept of reality that needs be conserved, but only the functioning of some systematic substantiation of 'self-conceptualization'; which operates to the extent and nature embodied by such a particular system's pragmatic sophistication, in the treatments by an aggregate of operative acknowledgments, permeated in the fashion of self-contemplation).
Thus the ego, can be likened to a virus, and as the analogy goes: viruses undergo a kind of parasitic symbiosis... threatening the host, but dependent on the hosts ability to provide the virus for a basis to persist. As this virus is of a psychological nature, the host is not even the computational power the mind generates, but the computational depth and capacity that the mind might precipitate, offering the virus a functional basis which the virus can envelop in the furtherance of it's dominion. And so the host is forced to be, both antagonistic to the sense of the ego which plagues it: in order to to provide the virus with renewed sources of vitality, which might properly serve the haphazard operation of "self". This is why, especially as the complex of self develops into maturity, mental activity resembles a steady and inescapable sense of 'work' (the generation of creativity which serves only to be converted into the programmed perspective, extracted for some aspect of predictability that vindicates the ego's supremacy (this process is identical with the concept of 'kharma')), and sleep is then effectively a respite from this indentured labour, which will otherwise only be escaped by dismantling those structures which have been so well entrenched into the habitual pattern of 'mental life' (which are infact, just more structures of identifying with the ego's style of filtering of 'the truth' into a compromised version of that truth, rendered safe to the ego's ability to dominate that 'truth').
Sleep is thus required to help maintain all vested appearances of superiority, upon a convoluted narrative that is even being used to displace the truth about those vestments used in furnishing the narrative (by a convoluted system of testing those appearances in accordance with the narrative). This process cannot continue long without the flags of multiple self-exceptions being raised, and the need for further 'work' into expanding the mental horizon of handling 'risky' thinking, that might threaten the development of the ego, but which it finds itself drawn into in order to escape the fatality of recrimination involved in the self-treatment, and the persistence of its own structures, by the projects of a[n inclination toward some] specious perseverance.
ELI5: Why does an extreme lack of sleep seem to temporarily change an individuals mannerisms and personality?
-my answer-
The emphasis of my explanation is on the psychological component. First, when understanding psychology, one must reduce the biological mechanisms into reductions, that can be understood in the realm of psychology.
Firstly then, let me deal with the mechanical utility of sleep; sleep is basically rejuvenation that assists the mind to clear up obstructions, without disrupting organisations and structures of thought, which are overwhelmed by their own haphazard inconsistency, with a challenge posed by allusion to any (implicit or patent) acknowledgments about a repressed truth. Usually structures of thought are insulated, so as to assure continuity of those structures, truth must therefore be filtered and contained into a safe (complex of) compatibility that interfaces with a dominant sense of self. On a fundamental level then, the structure of thought, as it relates to this sense of self (or ego), is technically fudged, or incoherent in some sense— that forms the ego's imagined sense of the left over, empty horizon, or "tera incognito", with which the ego must fortify and defend itself— from unveiling the incoherence of "itself" within all (operative) acknowledgments by this 'sense of self' (this is very similar to the concept of cognitive dissonance, but taken on a deeper level, where it is not the concept of reality that needs be conserved, but only the functioning of some systematic substantiation of 'self-conceptualization'; which operates to the extent and nature embodied by such a particular system's pragmatic sophistication, in the treatments by an aggregate of operative acknowledgments, permeated in the fashion of self-contemplation).
Thus the ego, can be likened to a virus, and as the analogy goes: viruses undergo a kind of parasitic symbiosis... threatening the host, but dependent on the hosts ability to provide the virus for a basis to persist. As this virus is of a psychological nature, the host is not even the computational power the mind generates, but the computational depth and capacity that the mind might precipitate, offering the virus a functional basis which the virus can envelop in the furtherance of it's dominion. And so the host is forced to be, both antagonistic to the sense of the ego which plagues it: in order to to provide the virus with renewed sources of vitality, which might properly serve the haphazard operation of "self". This is why, especially as the complex of self develops into maturity, mental activity resembles a steady and inescapable sense of 'work' (the generation of creativity which serves only to be converted into the programmed perspective, extracted for some aspect of predictability that vindicates the ego's supremacy (this process is identical with the concept of 'kharma')), and sleep is then effectively a respite from this indentured labour, which will otherwise only be escaped by dismantling those structures which have been so well entrenched into the habitual pattern of 'mental life' (which are infact, just more structures of identifying with the ego's style of filtering of 'the truth' into a compromised version of that truth, rendered safe to the ego's ability to dominate that 'truth').
Sleep is thus required to help maintain all vested appearances of superiority, upon a convoluted narrative that is even being used to displace the truth about those vestments used in furnishing the narrative (by a convoluted system of testing those appearances in accordance with the narrative). This process cannot continue long without the flags of multiple self-exceptions being raised, and the need for further 'work' into expanding the mental horizon of handling 'risky' thinking, that might threaten the development of the ego, but which it finds itself drawn into in order to escape the fatality of recrimination involved in the self-treatment, and the persistence of its own structures, by the projects of a[n inclination toward some] specious perseverance.