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I read (along time ago) about a diver who went to sleep in a pool. It seems that they had been having a "Baby swim" class in the pool and had the water bathtub warm. One of the instructors had lost a contact lens in the pool and convinced the diver to search for it. As the story went, he got so sleepy crawling around on the bottom in the warm water, he finally went to sleep, waking only when he went OOA. Jeez, can you imagine that? Waking up, OOA! ;-) Later, he reported having strange dreams while asleep in the pool. Some research scientist wanted to hypnotize him to see if he had a dream state similar to the thought processes of babies in the womb. I never heard any results of that effort. Or really, even if it was true. Kinda sounds like urban myth anyway. Still sorta interesting. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: Aldo P. Solari [APS] <aldo.solari@ho*.se*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 5:48 PM Subject: sleep on long decos (?) > I wonder whether there is any info (papers, grey literature, > anecdotal data, etc.) on the following issue: > > (i) Divers getting into either: (a) hypnothic state, (b) > pseudo-asleep or (c) asleep while doing long decos. > > The question is the following: do we (humans) have any capability > (or pseudo-not-fully-developed-capability) to switch from > sleeping with both brain hemispheres to one at a time (such as > dolphins and other marine mamals do) if we are in the water ? > > Are there any studies of brain activity during long decos ? This > could well be answered by electroencephalograms while doing long > decos when divers are very tired. > > What does the WKPP medical doctor say ? > > A very interesting topic, indeed. > > cheers, > > aldo.solari@ho*.se* > www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris > ___ > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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