[stylist] off-topic, final circadian post

[David Andrews]

Peter,

I applied to be a part of the study, and was ultimately rejected 
because my BMI was to high.  I did talk to them a lot, and I was 
impressed with the thoroughness of the effort.  Yes, they do 
establish your base sleep patterns etc., before moving on to anything else.

I think, sometimes, it is considered cool, in the NFB, to be against 
any research dealing with blindness.  While I think there has been, 
and is a lot of bad blindness research out there, not all of it is bad.

I for one periodically have pretty major problems sleeping.  I have 
been up since 2:30 this morning, and it is now nearly 7:00 p.m., and 
I am fading fast!

Dave

At 08:52 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:

>Good morning everyone,
>
>     Here's a final thought as well so we can get back to writing matters.
>The thing that troubles me about this whole thing is that whether the
>subjects be blind or sighted nothing has been said as to whether
>participants undergo a baseline sleep study to rule out known sleep
>disorders before they're enrolled in the melatonin study. If this is being
>done that makes me feel better. Otherwise this is nothing more than the kind
>of pseudo research we've read about done on the blind in the past everything
>from teaching us how to eat properly to whether or not the inability to see
>light or not effects our sexual activity. This is a very sensitive issue
>with me and I'm sure others whose unusual behavior and sleep-wake patterns
>were blamed on blindness when a sleep study would have revealed the real
>culpret. Now I'm done as well.
>
>Peter Donahue