Can You Fake Sleep?

[@0xirix]

I thought this video had to do with closing your eyes without falling asleep (perhaps because you can't fall asleep), and staying the entire night like that. This happened to me once, and I didn't know if that counted as sleeping. :(

[@uhohLungJuice]

I had the EXACT same thing happen.

[@thembluetube]

but... but... but Homer Simpson faked being awake, not asleep...

[@BrandonSchleifer]

There's nights where I've gotten zero sleep, in spite of trying to sleep, and nights where I didn't even try to sleep. I find that I have more energy the next day and feel more awake if I spent the night laying in bed in the dark letting my mind wander compared to nights when I am up and doing something (like playing video games) all night.

[@janicel.messer3042]

Geez Thank you Brandon. That's my experience exactly!

[@brodieclamp1501]

Same here

[@danielricardobarrero5045]

Watching this video in 2017. I follow your channel constantly, and the change in your voice amazed me! I just came from a 2017 video, you currently have a deeper voice ;)

[@puppyd0gs]

She's so dreamy (:

[@AnimeReference]

Are you sure it's not because the participants were told effectively that they had failed? Perhaps the opposite approach; telling people they slept too much and would therefore have lower concentration during the test would provide conformation (or more likely that you can't "fake sleep").

[@paulosullivan3472]

That's an interesting idea. Is it just positive and negative words/thoughts or is it specifically that you think your sleep was inadequate. Hopefully they will read your comment and look into it.

[@StanlyHD]

can you make a video about lucid dreaming?

[@Jana-ho9mu]

StanlyHD yessssss

[@CenoriaWoah]

StanlyHD Don’t do that. It can go very wrong

[@PivotBoom]

1:19 When she was about to say "Worse" I thought she was gonna say "Worser" fml

[@peterDcontact]

thx for the tips in the end but i find hard to believe that i can tell myself "you slept 5 hours last night but most of it was rem sleep so... you are good" i like this kind of videos where you talk more than the animation ones, your body movement helps you deliver better

[@slugfiller]

Your conclusion from the research is flawed. The participants weren't simply told that they had more or less sleep. They were also told that they would have better or worse performance as a result. It is more likely that the difference in their results were based on their expectation to perform better or worse. You've already covered in another video how setting expectations can influence actual performance. To properly demonstrate a placebo effect to sleeping, rather than to anything else, the researchers would have had to first find a way to directly test a symptom of sleep deprivation or improper sleep, and then test for it with the placebo of sleeping, but without the suggestion of doing better or worse on the test.

[@justinschroeder2497]

Great channel! Just binge watched like 15 vids and they're all great! Thanks Vsauce for introducing me! On a side note, I have always been a morning person, which is always reinforced by family members, and I feel quite sure that even on mornings where the previous night's sleep was short or restless, the fact that I identify as a morning person helps me to get out of bed feeling great in the morning.

[@practicaldeduction6862]

I'll have to utilize this Method. I discovered a trance like state that let's me avoid getting car sick, It's similar to a nap, but I'm still conscious, I wonder if this is related.

[@TheJonbonjovy]

Explain how plz

[@practicaldeduction6862]

I shut my eyes and clear my head at first, shut my entire body down almost. Once i have my heart rate to a resting level i pick something to focus on. I'm still conscious, but i tune almost everything out.

[@Awntry]

I don't know if this is known or legit but a trick I've learned that helps when I am low on sleep is what I call a half sleep in which I am still completely capable of sensing and processing the world around me (minus sight of course) but for the most part, I choose to ignore it. It starts with controlled, slow breathing and conscious muscle relaxation until you go into a state where it feels like sleep except that you are aware. When you 'wake up' later, you will feel much more refreshed and is a great boost if you are low on sleep. The great thing about this technique is that you don't need to fall asleep completely so you can entertain those insomniac thoughts as you like. I have done this several times at the station or the airport while having a 'touch' on all of my belongings. It's nice since you still want to keep watch on all of your stuff and so whenever you hear someone comes near, you can just lift an eyelid just in case

[@HassanSelim0]

I do that during Game Jams (when we have to make a game in 48 hours or 72 hours) and when trying to hit a deadline that's 1 or 2 days away. I find myself unable to solve the programming problem I'm facing, so I do this pseudo sleep (but sometimes I go into very light sleep, so an hour could feel like 40 minutes), then when I'm "up again" I become much more efficient when programming. But I notice that my mood is slightly less stable (someone could get on my nerves more easily) and I'm less able to socialize. I believe social interaction is the first thing to get affected from lack of sleep, specially for a not-so-social person like me.

[@makarovantagesession8880]

Accurate ^^ cause i got a dream with Rem in it and it turned out to be a pretty good sleep ^^

[@pocok5000]

I noticed that I get up very easily when I couln't finish what I was doing last night. Especially if I was working on it for several ours, and I enjoyed it. As soon as I open my eyes, I feel fresh and get up immediately. It could be that I get up easily simply because I have something to get up for, but it feels more than that.

[@HassanSelim0]

I think the same happens with me, but the problem is, it's very very hard for me to sleep when I'm in the middle of a bunch of tasks (not necessarily within a task) that I want to finish together without loosing my train of thought. But when I do, I wake up fresh and ready to ... fix all the crappy code I wrote before I slept :D

[@itarfer]

Well you can't sleep in a lab every night but there is an iPhone app that you put in your bed and it tracks your movement to tell you how well you sleep the night before. It seems to work because what it said about my quality of sleep correlated to what would make sense based on my environment. For example, on nights when I'd had a stressful day or had trouble falling asleep or had stayed up too late, during the time I WAS asleep the app indicated that I hadn't slept very well, and on nights when I fell asleep easily or took melatonin, it showed that I had slept much more deeply.

[@julianmontes8860]

Speaking of afternoon naps; in some countries, it's actually the norm or it's at least expected of. It's often practiced in Spain and spanish influenced countries like Italy, Philippines, Mexico, etc.

[@RodanJoe]

Subscribed, liked and favorited because Constanza

[@flamefam2738]

It’s weird I think I’m asleep sometimes but wake myself up but I also have dreams and you won’t believe me but I have visions that come true like I can LITERALLY predict the future

[@BeCurieUs]

Ya, the fact that placebo sleep is a thing is ridiculous! Oh how much more we have to learn about sleep :D

[@mrdiddley8060]

when ur trying to sleep move ur eyes around rapidly. like golly, this stuff is top notch, i was in a floodshelter trying to sleep (lights on) and was pooping around with my eyes and in the end i moved my eyes around rapidly, which made me eyes feel heavy and resulted in sleep. best way to fake sleep is not to fake sleep, but rather, moving ur eyes rapidly.

[@JoeTinnySpace]

+Mr Diddley gonna try that one ,anybody confirm this ?

[@mrdiddley8060]

+JoeTinnySpace ! well it worked for me cus i was tired but even so, the warehouse was crowded and all.

[@eertrj]

If you have to fake all the time, maybe you should be asking "why" instead of "how"...

[@donatelo11]

Placebo effect = Intention, Positive thinking = Positive Intention Listening to the news = Bad Intentions = Bad Karma Creating your own reality = Good Karma = Good Life

[@greenturtle3739]

Love your videos! Lol watching this at 2am

[@MrCardeso]

Very interesting. Thanks. I guess I need to start telling myself how amazingly well I sleep each night.

[@IraJavier]

But... but... Homer was faking being awake?!

[@privatefoenix]

I just came here to see her..

[@HankHillBentOver]

Has anyone ever felt themselves got o sleep? I have it's so weird!

[@fruktumkalasbajen9647]

I really don't like that intro. The noise is really uncomfortable.

[@GizmosMonster]

+Fruktum Kalasbajen i thought so the first 3 times i watched these videos too.. but now i kinda like it :D

[@imadepressedlittletwat460]

Fruktum Kalasbajen reminds me of link.exe

[@Nobody-sw9fv]

Fruktum Kalasbajen I don't really like your profile picture. Its really weird.

[@bluegodofspeed]

Can you lie to yourself in the morning? Say, even if you woke up feeling groggy, just tell yourself "Wow! That was a good night's sleep!"

[@SmokeDankTrees]

You're really cute.

[@KcHecKa]

Ikr!!

[@rockmansrockinggames8799]

I tried the active rest and it worked, Thanks! It's the morning and I have an early baseball game to play in.

[@boltdavies4444]

It's like what the doctor said on doctor who "I don't sleep I just take standing up cat naps" i laugh every time

[@nickmagrick7702]

I would argue the people who got tricked into thinking they got more sleep than they did, did not actually function better. They probably thought they had more energy to spend, but its taxing the body as if it had sufficient reserves from rest. Studies like this are problematic when they come up with a hypothesis they set out to prove instead of trying to disprove one over and over.

[@satyrkrieg]

This girls's accent is freaking outreageous

[@WillenRibeiro]

I'm in love with this woman

[@roshankumar-lt8jy]

how many times did u blink?

[@k11h12anh]

during REM, how do they know the eyes are rapidly moving when the eyes are closed?

[@sexybeasts563]

You can see the eyes darting back and forth under the eyelids

[@RoscoeKane]

+k11h12anh the front of your eye, the lens that you see out of, bulges out a bit from the otherwise approximately spherical eyeball. When someone is asleep someone watching can easily see the bulge moving back and forth under the thin eyelid.

[@MadsOcto7]

Amazing video :D

[@ricqmarconi9558]

only 271,574 subs?!?!

[@Pikminiman]

Very cool.

[@cr0w-qz277]

GODAMNIT! you shattered my placebo!

[@Toleich]

What is that song in the background?!

[@oakwall3275]

This is a different way how I fake sleep When it like 4:08 am and I’m in my phone(right now) when I hear footsteps I cover me self and close me eyes wait till tha footsteps go away and ta daaaa UwU I’m safe for being caught

[@randomgooy7456]

I thought it was about fooling someone that your asleep

[@moonlightfox_333]

What's song in background

[@raynaaguilar2933]

Um

[@firestrong1000]

Nice vid

[@Crogoch16]

Than You should sleep more.

[@CarlinComm]

Mmmmm Nap Time :) Sweet Dreams!

[@feroxgargol]

i lie my self xD for the placebo efect

[@TheRandysilverwolf]

What accent is that she speaks with, does anyone know offhand?

[@misclickable]

I believe it's Australian, but she is from New Zealand as far as I remember.

[@BrMiller]

+Randy Davidson Australian

[@laylaraien3692]

I have an Australian accent and since I don't notice an accent must be Australian.

[@dexterbarnes5249]

0:00 to 0:05-

[@y0l3itches]

It is almost like a Sterotype threat but for the type of sleep. You will be confirming the results if telling the person before hand if you have a good REM sleep, they will perform better, they will perform better.

[@NateoPotato]

Is it me or does she look like Paul McCartney

[@FRND23]

OMFG!!! marry me!

[@benedictifye]

+FANG ....No.

[@benedictifye]

+FANG it's really unfortunate that women are continually more likely to be judged by their appearance, how appealing they are as a marriage partner or sexual partner, rather than what they're actually SAYING or any thoughts they have.

[@FRND23]

+benedictify can you STFU and stay with your opinion!? Its been long after this comment and is not like I mean it!

[@Toastmaster_5000]

+FANG it was still unnecessary

[@baertomeneguzzi9181]

+Peter Schmidt Oh shut up you privileged white bigot nazi

[@TheDanibits]

plasleebo

[@drcheekyisback]

You don't blink much do you?

[@friedelmajoor8469]

+drcheekyisback you do much blink don't you?

[@drcheekyisback]

Dreidel - blink actually much I do

[@drcheekyisback]

Friedel*

[@chrisross7754]

suBSCRIBED

[@spery7279]

Is easy lmfao

[@bjcryss]

please take this as a constructive comment and and a personal opinion: the messages and info you are sending are great, your voice is quite nice, but your intonation sounds a bit forced and not very natural...personally it's hard for me to listen to your posts just because it seems like you're trying to hard to deliver your messages to me, sounds like you would be arguing with me... Again, please take this only as a personal opinion... great work though !

[@Jarredpowell]

I agree. I love what she's doing but her cadence is whack. As an Australian myself, it sounds like she went to radio or news school and is trying really hard to sound like a news reader. I can put on that voice as well, but don't, because it sounds like this does - forced. It actually makes it harder to watch. Or maybe I'm just not used to awesome Australian KZbin presenters, because I imagine a bulk of the American ones we think are great sound really forced to people from the US as well.

[@MegaMissfitz]

Id pretend to be asleep if i were you foamy! Or they,ll have u doing night shift 😤😤😤

[@Aios_Blaise]

i dont care about sleep!, you are beautiful ^.^ xD love you videos. the trolls one was awesome :P

[@erikziak1249]

I know it is just coincidence and I am imagining things, but good work on the sound processing and also the lights setup! Really makes the video a lot better.

[@Tarikxmx]

since when beautiful girls doing science video?

[@nunya7875]

True

[@joshlete]

Intelligence is sooooo attractive!

[@teesha123]

10 years ago when i used to do yoga we would do the active rest routine at the end and she said it's worth 3 times as much asleep. So i used to active rest when i couldn't sleep and i'd doze off and wake up always feeling like i had enough sleep! :) placebo!

[@robroywoodman]

What happened to stage 4 sleep, the restorative part of the sleep cycle? A nap during which you fake sleep or really sleep can cure the afternoon blues but for restful sleep at night you need to reduce your day time stress.

[@TheAbd1233]

wow 1829 people watch this but no comments

[@Huntracony]

that's a bug. if you click the thing that says how many comments there are you'll see them all.

[@lizness_cm8895]

I have a young daughter, I've had poor sleep for years because of her, but I've convinced myself that I've got used to it, and cope. After watching this I can say that I've done this myself, I believe I'm OK.

[@FirstRisingSouI]

There are so many things like the placebo effect, where people actually feel/perform/etc. better because they believed there was a reason for it. I wonder, is it possible to intentionally psyche yourself into feeling/performing/etc. better even if you're fully aware that there isn't some extraneous factor?

[@jelomi1]

I find this works, when staying up late look at a clock say around 8:00pm now don't look at any more clocks you brain will think you fell asleep at 8:00pm where you really fell asleep at 2:00am you wont wake up sleepy. Try it see if it works for you.

[@kffej101]

I fake sleep in a very easy way that works almost all the time. after a certain point, if i know that I will be up later into the night, I force myself to stop looking at all clocks and timekeepers. Since my brain doesn't know when I went to sleep, it can't tell me "oh man i only got 3 hours of sleep last night". you can't make it a step further, still without looking at any clocks, by telling yourself you went to bed at 11, when in fact you went to bed at 3; your brain doesn't have the information to tell you you're lying to yourself, so this works all the time.

[@quienlosconocepapa]

kffej101 did it sometimes before and heck it works

[@sexybeasts563]

I was literally just thinking of trying that and then I read your post. That's awesome no more clocks!

[@TheLineCutter]

kffej101 can you dim natural light too? or do you live in Sweden where the sun goes down earlier in the day? Because regardless of a clock I can guess pretty well what time it is at any period of the day.

[@abhishekbhattacharjee4639]

so people who do kegels are just faking sleeping .....that is something to digest

[@PeesonLOL]

Hey, just out of curiosity, what do you actually do for a living?

[@lavdim5201]

woman:can you fake sleep me:ummmm nope

[@sopro5477]

*i just want a full 8 hours of sleep*

[@Viktir123]

Her mouth moves around really weird when she speaks.

[@collin6526]

Iv'e done it it works for a day or to for me but you also have to have a corner like a chair back to push the back of your neck on gently it is relaxing when done right and feels like a 10:00 minute nap. At least to me