Some People Are Programmed to Sleep Better Than Others

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Do you have a hard time getting a good night's sleep? According to scientists, it's all in your genes.

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This episode of Seeker was hosted by Trace Dominguez
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@MinnieMousey06 7 лет назад

I feel like not being able to sleep well is an evolutionary advantage our ancestors used back then to keep watch during the night and alert the rest of the group if there was danger. Just think, if every single one of us slept soundly through the night, then we would have definitely been more vulnerable to predators and other dangers during the night. That's my theory anyway.

@lena5669 7 лет назад

I heard something that that's why we have night owls and early birds. So the evolutionary advantage would be a shift in sleep schedule.

@MikefromTexas1 7 лет назад

Wish I were one of these people. I have trouble *getting to* sleep. I can be tired as hell, but 10pm roles around and I feel like bein' up all night. Then feel like shit in the morning.

@lululunavideos3610 7 лет назад

Stone Bull 0728 It's 10:30pm right now and Ive never related more to anything

@MikefromTexas1 7 лет назад

Yuki Yukimura Haha, welcome to the Sleepless then!

@MikefromTexas1 7 лет назад

Apple Lysol Gotta get up for school at 5:00am, don't get out 'til 10:00am. Typical night-shift starts at 10:00pm, ends at 3:00am. Doesn't leave a lotta room for sleep, lifting and a social life unfortunately.😂

@sadik.oagile6779 7 лет назад

Put your phone and any devices away a few minutes before you desire to sleep. the light emitted by phone/laptop/the tablet screens or even your bedroom lights prevent you from feeling sleeping. if your still using your phone and you expect to go to sleepy to even feel sleepy, there is a high chance it's gonna be difficult

@Illuminat3d 7 лет назад

Inequality is in the very fabric of existence

@dmjlpstdwxecnmpave4aar4gi32 7 лет назад

get this bitch to washington

@christiane3407 7 лет назад

kiwibrown true

@nerdlingeeksly5192 7 лет назад

Illuminat3d when it comes to genetic, physical, and psycologic iniquality than yes but societal and social iniquality no economic inequality conditional if self infliccted like say you got pregers and have that kid eating at your income (not knocking kids or moms just stating a fact i plan on having kids but not until my early middle aged years) or dont earn the same as someone else because you didnt work your ass off and earn it (like getting raises) then economic inequality is ok but if fourced like legislation that is in favor of one company rather than equal and fair compotition or black listing someone from a specific job field who just pissed you off and didnt do anything illigal just made you angry these are wrong

@sayuas4293 7 лет назад

Yes, like black people are more likely to be violent.

@TheSmileyFacedPizza 7 лет назад

And you're a racist bigot that can't seem to see that we as white people put and keep minorities in the situations they're in, which is what causes statistics like black people having a higher percentage of being a murderer, which gives us more false reasons to be at least somewhat racist. Have you ever met a black person raised by a typical middle-class family? Have you ever met a white person raised in dangerous neighborhoods with abusive parents?

@jfncho 7 лет назад

thanks a lot for the normal FABP7 mom. really appreciate waking up throughout the night.

@theuniverse2713 7 лет назад

I wake up early I'm still tired, I wake up late I'm still tired.

@rakesh010668 7 лет назад

You guys should put the site from which you guys buy your t-shirts in the description. Your tees are always awesome!!

@adityay525125 7 лет назад

Rakesh Chauhan yeah good call trace wears cool shirts.

@cup_check_official 7 лет назад

his mom makes these t-shirts. you wont find these anywhere

@SpyroTek 7 лет назад

Just type whatever the t-shirt says/descrfibes into Amazon or Ebay.

@tommytucker5464 7 лет назад

Who else is watching this video instead of going to sleep?

@cup_check_official 7 лет назад

But but what language was used to program them?

@muhammadauliaakbar296 7 лет назад

Tell Me This h++ (human plus plus)

@bacon.cheesecake 7 лет назад

i think mine might be programmed with java

@MinerDJ6 7 лет назад

And morning people (who wake up sharply) are programmed with H#

@josiahklein70 7 лет назад

Tell Me This There are actually *at least* 7 different languages used along these processes. (DNA, RNA, proteins, hormones, neurotransmitters, various other modes of intercellular and intracellular communication)

@Xanderqwerty123 7 лет назад

Tell Me This Our brain's neurons are in binary, but our dna and rna use quaternary...

@scatteredvideos1 7 лет назад

I read it as FAP7

@brokenacoustic 7 лет назад

0:53 There's no need to fear, sleepy man is here! I'll save you, right after this nap!

@brokenacoustic 7 лет назад

I can handle a few nights in a row with around 6 hours of sleep and feel fine, but after that it starts to wear me out.

@fireriffs 7 лет назад

You are not needed for I Captain Narcolep....

@brokenacoustic 7 лет назад

^^ lol

@eliannam.5700 7 лет назад

sleep is just a waste of time. if I could, I wouldn't sleep at all.

@tommytucker5464 7 лет назад

Lightning Bug it is not a waste of time, sleep is part of life.

@cup_check_official 7 лет назад

Yeah thats what i think too. I know its a part of life but imagine if we didnt have to spend 8 hours a day just lying on the bed. we could accomplish a lot more .-.

@mrjek01 7 лет назад

I think we consume too much as it is. imagine how much we would need if we never slept. the world needs a break from us as well..

@qqq1701 7 лет назад

I find being awake to be a waste of time.

@alanforest7659 7 лет назад

Tommy Tucker irrelevant

@starpravesh 7 лет назад

Oh crap I am in bed right now.

@mehdirh2278 7 лет назад

I thought today's topic was going to be about the discovery of 300 000 year old homo sapien fossils

@peurmartis641 7 лет назад

0:15 i thought it was a stock image until she moved

@YouShotMyRobot 7 лет назад

same, even thought my mind was playin' with me for a second thinking the stock image was moving.

@YouShotMyRobot 7 лет назад

I've never had that "waking up feeling refreshed" feeling. Never. I always wake up and feel like throughout the night I journeyed endlessly and tirelessly through the tolkien universe and got the ring to mordor and someone congratulated me with a punch to my face.

@jaimie00 7 лет назад

We know that the glymphatic system works only during sleep and not while awake, and there are other things that only happen during sleep. Now, I don't know if we know WHY that is yet, but it fully explains the need for sleep across species.

@BlueBetaPro 7 лет назад

DEC2 - I never knew I needed you so much.

@kaciekk 7 лет назад

it always takes me forever to fall asleep and I never feel refreshed no matter how much sleep I get. Even if my body is tired, my brain never is. And even when I feel like my brain is tired, it's really not.

@99waterlife 7 лет назад

For some reason I am programmed to sleep at 8 PM to 9 PM and automatically wake up between 4 AM and 6 AM . I sleep very well . Even as a child and a teen I used to sleep the same hours . Never used an alarm clock . I sleep an average of 8 hours a night and thankfully I have a job working days .

@WestOfEarth 7 лет назад

It makes sense that our pre-historic ancestors would evolve to have a percentage of the community with different sleep cycles. If everyone slept soundly, they would be attacked easily and wiped out. Having some humans evolve to be light sleepers or 'night owls' would benefit the community in the area of protection and productivity.

@keithengel3258 7 лет назад

In my 20s I could be awake and work on just a couple of hours of sleep for two or three days straight. Not once or twice a month, or even a week. I mean continuously, for many years. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000. Seventeen years later, now, it seems to have slowed me down to being awake one to two straight days. Trace seemed to confirm, at least to me, the genetic aspect. My dad was always going on a few hours of sleep. For once, it was nice to hear that getting less than eight hours of sleep isn't detrimental.

@flop9265 7 лет назад

Yup. Im one of them.🙋 I sleep like a dead angel. So peacefully...

@gizmo357 7 лет назад

Me and 2 of my children have trouble sleeping. it's 5 am and my 7 year old and I are still awake -- he can talk about philosophical questions and pondering at 2 am. my daughter used to tell me when she was 4 that "her brain wouldn't let her sleep". For them we have tried melatonin, herbal teas, reading, classical music...for me I was staying awake through ambian, and right now I am awake through melatonin, tizanidine, and gabapentian. Possible genetic connections make sense.

@nekov4ego 7 лет назад

Yeahh, I'm one who can't sleep more than 6 hours even after overworking myself. Good to know I'm not broken because that's always been the case.

@thebananamelon5065 7 лет назад

What do you call a fake phone? A phony

@hankhill5216 7 лет назад

The Banana Melon that was good

@trulyinfamous 7 лет назад

The Banana Melon Just stop.

@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 7 лет назад

The Banana Melon good one

@iverkjellkken6569 7 лет назад

so bad its good

@thinker8682 7 лет назад

Trace delivers the best explanations.

@Myrkonius 7 лет назад

After 5 hours of sleep I wake up without the need of an alarm. I tried to sleep more but I was waking way too early. So for many years now, my sleep is from 1 am to 6 am and a short nap during the day, 15 - 20 minutes during my tea break. I can be ok with even 4, and can survive sometimes with even 3 as long as they are from 3 to 6 am, for some reasons for me is the best time for sleep and if I miss this window I am gonna have a hard day. Also less than 3 hours of sleep means I will have to pump caffeine in me all day long to survive.

@xexplosionsniperx479 7 лет назад

sometimes it hard for me to get to sleep but when i do i don't wake up

@athenabattaglia9255 7 лет назад

I wasn't contemplating my mortality until you said that. so thanks...

@AifDaimon 7 лет назад

I sleep 5-6 hours a day yet I feel pretty much refreshed during my waking hours

@ominousonion7197 7 лет назад

MORE RESEARCH NEEDED

@aperture3412 7 лет назад

2:45 "And hopefully you're not thinking this before you go to sleep." Well shit.

@IzunaDestruction 7 лет назад

Very interesting episode. Good work.

@graciekay7966 7 лет назад

I definitely have FABP7. Once I fall asleep, nothing seems to wake me up.

@augustgreig9420 7 лет назад

I already new this. Me, my grandmother, father, and his brother all sleep almost not at all... we wake up at the smallest things. My gf says sometimes I wake up if she just looks at me. Amphetamines are like my worst nightmare.

@xshadowscreamx 7 лет назад

Watching this at 4am.

@bigfoot.4451 7 лет назад

it's been 84 years, still waiting for Science Plus to upload a new video...

@LordShenanigan 7 лет назад

Sleep is just an excuse for not drinking coffee.

@burgundyknight6826 7 лет назад

Once I'm asleep I stay asleep and I don't have to sleep as long as my GF. my Dad is also the same way this explains a lot I'm gonna look more into this and see how many hours I actually need, thanks.

@massiex1872 7 лет назад

I'm not self-diagnosing, but I can function at school despite the fact I only get 5-6 hours. I don't nap.

@shawncrawford6592 7 лет назад

I only sleep four hours a night maybe five I've been like this since a kid doctors have said nothings wrong with me , just the fact that my sleep cycle is different than most.

@rayho7780 7 лет назад

Damn.....I'm watching this right before sleep...

@sarvamsardana3704 7 лет назад

for our body n brain food water sleep are necessaties

@thetommantom 7 лет назад

six hours is plenty. Some times three hours over two naps. few naps spread out

@ArBee123 7 лет назад

Im awful at sleeping. I have very vivid dreams every night and it leaves me exhausted in the morning

@dutchik5107 7 лет назад

well. I don't have that type of insomnia. just falling asleep. as soon as I'm asleep, I deep sleep.

@nihilisticpancakeface6553 7 лет назад

body: oh so you slept at 9pm how about i wake you up at 2am *next day body: oh so you slept at 12am... how does 2am sound? (im trying a new sleep routine which involves me sleeping at 9pm and waking up at 5am but for some reason my body likes to wake me up at 2am)

@BeyondLucidDreaming 7 лет назад

Very interesting, the sleep efficiency mutation. Needing less sleep could be great for productivity, but it also concerns me, being someone whose primary interest is in lucid dreaming. Will we one day, in the distant future, cease to sleep? Or will we need so little that we won't need to dream (or dream as much)? Many innovations in our history are tied directly to dreams, so it would be a shame to someday evolve past the need for this incredibly interesting state.

@gabyvillanueva25 7 лет назад

Currently, awake and suffering.

@Fatherlake 7 лет назад

When I wake up I'm always tired, so it doesn't matter if I get 12 hours or 6, I function the same.

@tjscuroko2701 7 лет назад

my mother has the gene and my grandfather had it on crack. the dude could sleep for 3 hours after working 16 hours and be fired up and ready to go the next morning at 3am.

@JacobOnileEre 7 лет назад

It confuses me when Trace says that we don't know why we sleep, but then lists all the benefits of sleeping that we know of. Aren't those benefits the answer to the question why we sleep? Or is he implying that we know that those benefits are only incidental, and that there is some other(s) main/underlying reason why we sleep that we know we haven't discovered yet?

@hernaldo14 7 лет назад

I used to ride my bike from school to my house, it took me about 25 to 30 minutes the ride home. One day i got home it was 3 PM and i was so tired i took a nap but i ended up waking up the next dayXD hell of a long nap :p

@arpitsahu9940 7 лет назад

I think I have SLEEPING genes comman with a PANDA. You see mom, its not my fault.. 😂

@borrachomoe 7 лет назад

Where did you get your tshirt Trace? It is pretty awesome!

@mirthamodesto7193 7 лет назад

Literally went to sleep at 2 last night and I'm celebrating for falling asleep early 😧

@Robert-ry6xe 7 лет назад

2:19 I only sleep for three hours per day and I feel completely fine.

@LulitaInPita 6 лет назад

THE ZOMBIE TRAINER damn I'm jealous of you...

@BigHeadClan 7 лет назад

My daily routine is 5-6 hours of sleep a night and wake up just fine after the fact, that said I sleep like 10-12 hours on the weekends when I can get it. lol

@qqq1701 7 лет назад

29 slept fitfully and had the mutation. How many slept fine and had the mutation? Did any others sleep fitfully?

@2awesome292 7 лет назад

Just turn the blue light on your phone off...

@festerallday 7 лет назад

All collage kids seem to have the ability to stay up until 3am, get 4 hrs sleep, and function fine the next day.

@lyingmongoose 7 лет назад

Goddamn this is some pertinent information for my life. Thank you.

@niki123489 7 лет назад

I install f.lux on my laptop to reduce the blue light on my screen during the 24 hour cycle.

@willdixon9525 7 лет назад

Create content. Watching… Great show today. Thanks for sharing your video

@sandcastlecollapsing 7 лет назад

I get horrible sleep every night. I wake on average about 6 times a night. Ugh, never feel refreshed or rested.

@14xx07 7 лет назад

This moment where I'm really on the bed watching this before sleep. Feels a little weird. 😂

@dannybribiesca 7 лет назад

Crazy stuff! I wish I could wake up feeling like new every day...

@TaylorSmith-fz7qn 7 лет назад

What about those of us who seem to need to be awake for 18-20 hours and then require AT LEAST 12 hours of sleep to function properly without chemical intervention? We have 24 hours in a day, but I need 30-32. My circadian rythm literally walks around the clock kind of like a blind person. I assure you though, I'm not blind. 20/40 left, 20/80 right.

@aurathedraak7909 7 лет назад

Daily seeker is programmed to make themselves better than anyone else.

@pineapplepalmtree8876 7 лет назад

I found that if I get at east 4 hours of sleep I can wake up complete refreshed and ready to go (I'm also some what of an insomniac)

@100kgLuft 7 лет назад

I know a guy in his 50's that has slept 2 hours every night his whole adult life and still function normally. How is this possible? He only eats one meal every day as well.

@x-31mej0r-5 7 лет назад

100kgLuft at least he slept 2 hrs everyday i sleep none😭

@100kgLuft 7 лет назад

jorge Gonzalez Aw man, that SUCKS!

@jayo8281 7 лет назад

Trace could you release a podcast of science based bed-time stories? K thx

@Raven-lu5ee 7 лет назад

No matter what I do, I always wind up staying up all night and sleeping most of the day. If I have a day shift I'm SOL

@joshuazwnathan1743 4 года назад

So I study Aerospace Engineering at the moment I’ve been struggling with “normal” routines for a while after doing some bio hacks with some uni friends. I’m pretty sure I have some strange genetics..... I honestly can function with half an hour of top quality sleep a day but I’m looking into expert advice for long-term implications.

@Jamiedunford74 7 лет назад

Hey the new android update has a blue light filter built in! you can even set it to turn on after sun set and before sunrise! Almost the only thing I like about the update lol.

@pinkponyofprey1965 7 лет назад

Leave me to my own devices and I get sleepy at 01:00 and wake up very close to 6:50 maybe +/-5min most days. Elite sleeper signing off! :D

@anikkundu9232 7 лет назад

now I came to know why I created an unofficial record of sleeping the longest

@rickdeveen382 7 лет назад

Can you make a video about climate change? Because I hear a lot of scientists say its true but also a lot of scientists say its wrong

@KarishmaChanglani 7 лет назад

Rick De Veen I legit can't think of a single credible scientist who thinks its wrong. Its pretty much universal consensus. Could you give me an example of a credible researcher who does say that climate change isn't true.

@rickdeveen382 7 лет назад

Karishma Changlani well i dont think you know them because they're dutch. They said all the computers a few decades ago said the global temperature would be much warmer at this time so they say it is wrong by those results. i think the temperature didn't rise that much because we already did a lot against climate change, by example the ozon layer

@KarishmaChanglani 7 лет назад

Rick De Veen I see. That still doesn't mean they said climate change is not true? Just that the exact predictions were wrong.

@anh4139 7 лет назад

Great! I have a mutation of dec2. That's gonna help me in college and high

@stefanbradianu5103 7 лет назад

plz bing seeker daily back

@lumimobb 7 лет назад

Trace, try deadlifting heavy, squatting heavy, pressing heavy, and tell me you need only 6 hours of sleep. they need more subjects, like athletes.

@AbdelrhmanElsayed 7 лет назад

unfortunately it's 4:30Am in Egypt now and I'm going to sleep after watching this. 😃

@DeliriousCanadian 7 лет назад

I haven't been able to have a good nights sleep since I was 19 (i'm 32 now).

@bobtricheii8966 7 лет назад

I may have the mutant sleep gene. I sleep 5 or 6 hours a night. My doctor told me that is probably all I need. That I just don't need 8 hours. I'm wondering if this is the reason for my epilepsy. I've been to many doctors and they've all told me the same thing "they have no idea why I'm having seizures".

@fulckkckc8309 7 лет назад

"We still don't know why we sleep" Proceeds to name multiple reasons why we sleep

@sayuas4293 7 лет назад

I fall asleep easily... too easily. And anywhere.

@saser11 7 лет назад

i know for a fact that i dont have that gene... i cant stay asleep for longer than 20 hours even if i tried, i get alcohol extoxication-like symtoms if i stay up late, literally feels the same... and if i DO stay up for as long as i can, i tend to sleep for like 12 hours.. also im immune to coffine, which just makes it all worse -.-

@donniemiles8982 7 лет назад

I feel like my sleep module needs a firmware update.

@fcm101284 7 лет назад

i need that dec2 gene. i need at least 8 hours to function right during the day lol

@marioz6207 7 лет назад

Blue Light filter... Hope it helps 😀

@CRNR00 7 лет назад

I can do the 6 hrs sleep and function well but only for 3-4 day after that I revert back to 8-10 hrs

@evandouphrate9811 7 лет назад

Is thee a noti-squad for Seeker?

@mrrstarrk 7 лет назад

I think I have it.. My body doesn't let me sleep more than 6 hrs. If that sometimes.

@Thoran666 7 лет назад

Hello sunrise my old friend ..

@TheNonther 7 лет назад

Hopefully I am not watching this video on my phone before sleep, I am watching this video on my laptop before sleep. worse lol. 😂

@nitinverma1205 6 лет назад

Yes I have mutant gen

@sierraclough615 7 лет назад

When you're a WSU student majoring in genetics!

@RazgrizRaptor 7 лет назад

I wonder if I have that 6hr thing, cause I'm able to operate perfectly fine on less hours of sleep, but I don't always feel "fully refreshed" either... then again I don't feel fully refreshed most nights regardless of how much sleep I get. lol