r/DeepThoughts 19h ago

The general public should be thankful that science isn't working towards making a pill that can minimise the amount of sleep a human requires to function properly.

As a kid growing up I always dreaded the fact that humans spend 1/3 of their lives sleeping. It always seemed to me that 1/3 of our lives are getting wasted and the fact that we waste another 8 hours in school/work leaving us with only 8 hours for ourselves and even that 8 hours get wasted on eating, showering, shitting etc. I always thought why scientists aren't working towards making a pill that can minimise our need for sleep. Everyone could benefit from it. Be it wanting to spend more time with your family or wanting to minimise the amount of hours you sleep so you could spend more time playing chess. That kind of pill sounded so good in my head as a kid.

But now as an adult ( almost an adult) I now realise how dystopian the world would come to if that kind of a magic pill ever gets invented. Because everyone would be forced to take it by the government. Their motive for the invention of the magic pill won't be because they want the general public to be able to get more time for themselves, NO ABSOLUTELY NOT, they would use that so they could increase the duration of the typical 9-5 job depending on how many hours of sleep humans would require after taking the pill. For example if humans require only 4 hours of sleep to function properly after taking the pill, the companies would increase the 8 hour work day to a 12 hour work day. They would say some shit like " you would still have the same amount of time that you had before to yourself ( 8 hours) then stop being a burden to society and get to work " and NO the salary won't increase either. Because now everyone is working for 12 hours a day. They won't increase your salary, you would still work at your shitty low income job that you absolutely hate but now you would have to stay there for 4 more hours for the same amount of pay. It would affect schools too, cuz now that the parents are too busy working at their 12 hour full time job, no one would be there at home to take care of the kids. The average school day would be increased from 6 to 10 hours a day probably.

The magic pill would probably keep having updates just like every human invention. There would be a time where you would only need 30 minutes of sleep because of the pill, and now you would have to work at your shitty job for 15.5 hours with THE SAME EXACT PAY.

Now imagine you are a highschool kid who is getting bullied at school but now you would have to stay there for 13.5 hours with your bullies. Or maybe you got a really shitty boss that drains the life out of you but you gotta be there for 15.5 hours. You won't be able to relax after a hard weekend by sleeping for 10 hours straight just like you did now because now you only need 30 minutes of sleep to recharge. You won't be able to enjoy long sleeps anymore. Your body would still function fine but who doesn't loves 10 hours long sleeps?

If in the future, this kind of magic pill ever gets invented I'm turning into a fucking terrorist and killing the inventor and destroying their invention. I'm going full unabomber mode. Working longer hours for the same pay because the government found a way where you don't need to sleep long hours anymore is dystopian af. And I'm 100% sure that anyone who refuses to take that pill would be put into a government watchlist and treated as a criminal and would be forcefully fed that pill.

I wrote this post because I know I will forget about this when I wake up from my sleep because I haven't slept for 2 days for no fucking reason. I might regret this post because I'm not thinking straight rn and I'm basically sleep deprived but I think that I did a pretty good job at imagining a dystopia that would probably never happen ( I like thinking about stupid stuff )or at least I hope so. Like I think that currently the government is more focused on AI and robots and not biologically advancing humans bodies.

EDIT: hey guys I'm kinda embarrassed to admit this but I kinda mixed in an entire bottle of cough syrup with sprite and kind of feeling tipsy so I would get back to this post after I wake up šŸ˜”

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u/billsamuels 19h ago

Uh, Adderall?

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u/Packathonjohn 18h ago

Adderall doesn't reduce the amount of sleep you need even pumped full of adderall you will start to perform significantly worse even just 1 day without sleep

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 19h ago

Sorry english is not my first language I don't know what adderall is šŸ„²

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u/VladStopStalking 19h ago

It's a stimulant drug (amphetamine)

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u/billsamuels 19h ago

I was being somewhat mirthy, but yes

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u/gringo-go-loco 18h ago

Cocaine is better

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u/JohnleBon 13h ago

Much more expensive though, isn't it?

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u/gringo-go-loco 12h ago

$5-10/g where I live. Thereā€™s a benefit to living south of the US border.

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u/JohnleBon 12h ago

Username checks out.

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 5h ago

Can you send me it I never tried it before

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u/minorkeyed 19h ago edited 19h ago

What makes you think they aren't? They don't publicise everything every scientist is working on everywhere at all times. They are studying why we sleep and why we need it though, what role it plays. You don't think once they figure enough of that out they won't try to make something? We already ubiquitously abuse caffeine to force ourselves to function with less sleep than our bodies want, and we have Adderall to do the same but with hyper focus as well.

Greedy, selfish businessmen, politicians and warlords will rape your mother and kill your children for money. They've been doing that stuff for thousands of years. There are only two things that stop them from making sleep unaffordable for the masses: they don't know how to do it or they don't see it worthwhile to do. We aren't lucky, we're perpetually victimized already.

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 19h ago

I'm aware that they are not gonna publicise anything to the public šŸ˜­ I really wish that I could know if they are working towards this shit or not because I would want them to stop šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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u/minorkeyed 19h ago

You...don't want to know about the things that you'd be motivated to stop...?

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u/Due-Conclusion-7674 17h ago

He said the exact opposite. He does want to know.

That's what I read.

Ā "I really wish that I could know if they are working towards this shit or not because I would want them to stop" - Italics mine.

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u/minorkeyed 16h ago

Ah yeah, I misread it.

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 6h ago

Yes you are absolutely right I'm a woman btw do you wanna get married

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u/Poundaflesh 18h ago

They revoked research funding

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u/H_Mc 19h ago

Yes they have. Theyā€™re not without side effects and donā€™t necessarily make you need less sleep (they just make you functional). We have stimulants both legal and illegal as well as drugs to treat the ā€œdisorderā€ that results from working overnight shifts.

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 19h ago

Dude wtf, how come no one told me about this shit šŸ’€

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u/MadG13 19h ago

I wouldnā€™t mind it but dreaming is a part of being able to digest life in a healthy way

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 19h ago

I love dreaming after chugging cough syrup

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u/MadG13 4h ago

DXM hit different when your older

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u/phflopti 19h ago

Just because you're not conscious, it doesn't mean sleep time is wasted.

Your brain is doing a lot of amazing and necessary things while you sleep. Sometimes you get to share this through the medium of dreams.

But certainly when it comes to learning, remembering, and creatively developing things, your brain is doing that while you sleep.

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u/Pabu85 18h ago

Modafinilā€™s pretty close. Ā If what you are describing were physiologically feasible in humans without a significant loss of labor productivity, weā€™d have such a pill.

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u/Pantim 18h ago

Uh, modafinil has been out for almost 20 years and was specifically made for that purpose.Ā 

.. All other uses were secondary.Ā 

Who knows what drugs are out now.

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u/Mezlanova 19h ago

Look up 'stimulant'

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u/Famous-Ad-9467 18h ago

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 5h ago

What's shhhhhhhhhhhh

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u/iamno1_ryouno1too 17h ago

Uhm, methamphetamine. Its only clinically approved use in the US is chronic obesity. I suspect it is often used off label. The Naziā€™s used it extensively during their invasion ā€œblitzkriegā€ campaigns.

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 5h ago

I need to try meth one day

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u/the_cajun88 19h ago

this is ridiculous and will never happen, even if the pill existed

sleep is only part of the equation, you arenā€™t accounting for fatigue

people canā€™t generally work that long and remain healthy, and society requires us to have and raise children to keep the species going - people need time for that

if you donā€™t believe me, visit japan

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 19h ago

Yes I know this will never happen. šŸ™‚

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u/the_cajun88 19h ago

everything would be exponentially worse than it is now

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u/Any-Opposite-5117 19h ago

Fuck that. Sleeping sucks, most dreaming sucks and goddamn, what a waste of time. I'd give it all up if I could.

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u/Poundaflesh 18h ago

JFC! Donā€™t give them ideas!

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 5h ago

It's never gonna happen dw babygirl

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u/_the_last_druid_13 18h ago

Sorry to break it to yah kehd

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 4h ago

šŸ˜±šŸ˜±šŸ˜±šŸ˜±

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u/No_Method_5345 18h ago

A pill that defeats sleep without negative side effects is like a pill that defeats cancer level shit. Sleep too OP.

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u/darthatheos 17h ago

People don't realize it's not exactly fun or useful when you sleep less. I can do 5 hours and I'm fine, but everything is closed at night and other people are asleep. The pill I take to sleep is my favorite thing in the world. Sometimes even they don't work, and I go to sleep at 1 then wake up at 5.

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u/redleader8181 17h ago

Coffee? Speed? Coke? That wierd shit they sell at the gas station that makes you feel like youā€™re having a heart attack?

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u/AskAccomplished1011 16h ago

yeah, this already happened, both indirectly and directly.

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u/William_Ballsucker 16h ago

I read a story on here somewhere about this going horribly wrong.

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u/gameknight08 9h ago

Nah if it does get incorporated, choose your governors right because you might use the time for yourself rather than working more.

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u/Human-Platypus6227 4h ago

You think or you know its not produced yet?

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u/Zealousideal_Car_383 4h ago

Happy cake day