Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

[IndianaGreen]

This research may explain a lot of things to women that share their beds with a man.

Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.

When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.

The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels.

According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5197440.stm

[MadHound]

1. Oh Gawd!

Why does the phrase "preserving men's precious fluids" come to mind while reading this drek?

[Swamp Rat]

11. LOL!

POE POE POE POE POE :rofl:

[MadHound]

14. Hey, I'm honored

A Swamp Rat original in response to my post. Thanks:toast:

[MountainLaurel]

2. Apparently the women they studied

Weren't sleeping with a man who snored like a freight train.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Maybe Laura snores like a freight train...

...that would explain her husband's psychotic episodes.

:)

[Mandate My Ass]

8. GMTA

or one that flails around the bed like he's possessed. Ouch.

[diddlysquat]

4. I don't believe women sleep more deeply.

Especially after having a child. A woman is always on the alert to take care of the needs of that child and that means sleeping with one ear open.

[AverageJoe]

6. Maybe

But I tend to be the one who wakes up when our son wakes in the night. My wife sleeps like the dead.

[saltpoint]

5. Well, that sounds serious. Good thing it so rarely happens, huh.

[niccolos_smile]

7. Huh, it's the exact opposite for me...

My girlfirend is the one who doesn't sleep - tosses and turns - and I sleep like a log, a baby, or something that sleeps really well.

Hmmm...

[bloom]

9. I think they are wrong

I guess I don't know how deeply everybody sleeps - but my husband has always been able to sleep through anything. Not me.

I thought that was the more usual scenario.

[Pab Sungenis]

10. I believe it.

I literally can't share a bed with someone. I never sleep.

[BlueJazz]

12. Wel...This just souns lik a bunch ov crapp. I seeem too doo quiet...

...ok wit shareing a bed wit woman. I've have notised no drop in my intelagance.

[pecwae]

13. They missed me!

I sleep better with my little hound dog girl than any human bedmate.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

15. Further proof that women are evil!

:D

[bloom]

16. That seems to be the implication.

If it's proof of anything - it's more proof that (some) men are sexist.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

34. I hope you can recognize a joke when you see one....

[Hugin]

17. I came to same conclusion one night after the act of making love...

I felt drained!

The key is Purity Of Essence!

Anyone want to join me in a whiskey and water? (I only use rain water or
distilled water)

PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS! That's the key!

[Lilith Velkor]

18. Another day, another crap pronouncement about gender

Men this, women that.

Now men who slept just fine will lie awake questioning their masculinity and get stressed and unhappy, and maybe they'll buy more shit from BBC advertisers.

Hrmph.

[AngryAmish]

19. How can you sleep

when you have two ice cold feet on your calves?

on edit: Honestly ladies, it is like you take your legs off and leave them outside. It freaks me out.

[IndianaGreen]

26. They say that having cold feet means one has a warm heart

on the other hand, that could be an iceberg laying next to you.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

20. Since my husband rarely gets to bed until after midnight

and I go to bed at 9 and am up at 5:30, maybe it isn't so bad for him; he sleeps in until about 10 or so.

[RedStateShame]

21. What about sleeping with 2 women?

I need all the help I can get persuading my girlfriend.


Don't call me a pig, I'm joking, until I think she'll agree.

[no_hypocrisy]

22. Is that the real reason why Rob and Laura Petrie had twin beds

in the "Dick Van Dyke Show"?

[Iniquitous Bunny]

23. Then why is it...?

On the nights I work 3rd shfit, my partner has trouble sleeping? :shrug:

[Ellen Forradalom]

24. It's nice to know that there's a scientific explanation

for why husbands are idiots :-)

[bloom]

25. LOL

There you go.

[LeftyMom]

27. Brains, huh? I must be doing it wrong.

Who knew. :shrug:

[RedCloud]

28. So the blood rushed out from the head and goes where???

That page of my life, er, manual has been ripped out...

[jobycom]

29. Is that why we prefer dumb blondes?

We know our IQ will plummet if we get what we want, so we adjust our partners accordingly?

[Deja Q]

30. Okay, gay male couples, now's your chance to chime in on this!

:rofl:

[Burma Jones]

31. This is why the wife and I have a Tempurpedic

She gets the St. Vitus, but I don't wake up no more......

[Deja Q]

32. Well, if course it drains mens' brains. The blood rushes somewhere else!

it has to!

only for a relatively short period of time, of course...

:yoiks:

[Broken_Hero]

33. That explains a lot...

I stay up late, learning tons and tons of useful info, from DU, and especially the Lounge, and I go to bed...my head a swim, with good ideas, and the energy to do good in the world...

And then, I go to sleep, with my wife...and I wake up, and I can't remember what I talked/learned/debated about on DU, the night before....thank god for the DU archives!...:)