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I have a book since age 16 (31 years ago) that was very intersting to me. but i was never able to read past a certain passage. I always fall asleep.
About ten years ago I was given the Hebrew translation to the annotated version of the wizard of Oz. I read it and was fascinated by the story and annotations,
including critisism of the famous movie. But I had skipped most of the first page.
When reading it to my kids I discovered that night after night they would be sound asleep after the fifth sentence while I would slump in deep sleep by the seventh.
I read textbooks with interest, but sometimes hit on a section or even whole book that are impossible to read.
Its the same with some youtube tutorials. There's some where just cant keep your eyes open.
I hereby propose research into those parts of text that cause people to fall asleep and use this knowledge for medical treatment against insomnia.
It could also be used by the military for border clashes or by grassroots organizations for crashing a negative tv interview.
(?) Another application
http://chestjournal...tent/134/4/854.full
MSLT, MWT, and now SITT? [mouseposture, Aug 07 2011]
ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Rules
http://www.itu.int/...ages/X.690-0207.pdf
This and Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" would be my entrants into the category. Read them and zzzz. [jutta, Aug 07 2011]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
http://mirror.csclu...4/5740/5740-pdf.pdf
. [rcarty, Aug 07 2011]
Another application (mouseposture's corrected link)
http://www.aasmnet..../Review_MSLTMWT.pdf
To be used for calibrating wakefulness [pashute, Aug 04 2013]
[link]
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First paragraph, mmm, slightly interesting. 2nd paragr.. zzz... what? <zoom to the bottom> <click [annotate]> |
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I assume, if you never fell asleep while reading,
that you are in the extreme minority. That would
be a preliminary question for joining the research
test group, and anyone who never falls asleep
while reading would be excluded. |
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You are correct that I am assuming there is some
place in the text that does the trick to most
people. As I showed in my annotation, there are
some texts that seem to 'do it' to many people. |
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But hey! I'm calling for research. I have my
assumptions, but I'm not calling them facts. |
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Like the funniest joke in the world, the race for the most boring text will result in WW3. |
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A set of calibrated Sleep Inducing Texts could be
used to assess wakefulness <link> |
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There should be a public competition where a panel
of insomniacs competes against a panel of selected
sleep-inducing tests in a horse racing athmosphere.
First book to put its reader to sleep and last one to
stop turning pages wins. Bets can be placed both on
insomniacs and on books. "Go, Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus, go!" |
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//_Tractatus_//Bah, famously pithy & aphoristic*.
My money's on _Critique
of Pure Reason_. |
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*and written in very much the same style as ASN.1
Distinguished Encoding Rules. |
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// I have my assumptions, but I'm not calling them facts // |
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So what exactly are you doing here ... ? |
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The soporific effects of most, if not all, documents issued by the EU would certainly bear further research. |
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@ jutta: that wasn't so bad. It has all the flavor of a ISO 9001 document of procedure, except that at the end there is a diagram that basically makes the text entirely redundant. |
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I get the feeling that there is a subjective element as any book you need to read for academic study instantly becomes soporific. |
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In a desperate last ditch attempt to read some economics book before the deadline...I emptied my room of all other reading material,except for a copy of "The Geomorphology of Gravel", which I booked out specialy to ensure there would be nothing else more tempting to read. |
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A book on how gravel gets its shape should in itself be soporific, but turned out to be the more interesting of the two books, and the economics book sadly remained unread... |
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I'm pulling for 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates .' But if I look long enough, I might discover some pattern... |
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//if I look long enough, I might discover some pattern...// or some pattern might discover you. |
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A beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste. |
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For about a decade I've had a compilation of essays called
'The Aesthetics of Fascism'. I don't commonly use it as a
sleeping aid, but I should, because I have never made it
through a single essay. I highly reccomend it to any other
intellectual insomniacs like myself (and, I'm just guessing,
about %80 of all Halfbakers). |
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//intellectual insomniacs// [marked-for-slightly-pompous- tagline] |
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"a restless mind" vs. "an intellectual person with insomnia". |
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I was attemping to describe the latter, but I am so deeply
lost in Mary-Jane's Garden right now that I probably
shouldn't attempt to stand up, much less put together a
coherent statement. |
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<later> as a perfect example, I just accidentally deleted
my last anno by, very diliberately and with great care,
clicking 'delete' when I meant to click 'edit'. |
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I think Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus wins hands
down. Which suggests that a major factor in the
somnilogency of texts is the extent to which they
state the bleedin' obvious as verbosely as possible. |
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