Start With Lifting The Restrictions

Start With Lifting The Restrictions Chapter 6

2021-10-16

Chapter 6 Library

Sham Shui Po, outside the Municipal Building on Po Po Road, a yellow taxi slowly pulled into the parking lot Area.

"Hey, here we are, there are 110 mosquitoes. This is the nearest large library in front of us. I heard that it was newly opened a few years ago."

In the driver's seat of the taxi, a squat middle-aged taxi driver leaned sideways, pointed to the building outside the window, and said to Yang Chu, who was sitting in the back row.

"Thank you!"

Yang Chu glanced at the building outside the window, took out a 100 yuan and a 10-dollar Hong Kong dollar from his wallet, handed them to the other party, and opened the car door from the rental car. The car got on and off.

All the way into the Municipal Building, up to the second floor, to the destination of his trip, Poon Road Public Library in Sham Shui Po.

Yang Chu is ready to look up the books to see if he can find a solution from these books.

He did not choose to seek medical help or other professionals for help. Hong Kong Island is a capitalist society. With less than HK$1,000 left in his pocket, he can be found in some high-end clinics and professional The medical staff are not even qualified to make an appointment.

Let's take a step back and say that even if he can contact some suitable institutions and professionals, let's not talk about whether he can solve his sleep problem, but it is certain that he will become a research and experimental object in a short period of time.

Of course, in the face of life and death, there is nothing that cannot be compromised.

It's just that there is no way out in the end, Yang Chu will not easily let others dominate his destiny.

He actually doesn't know why he thinks this way——

There are already many things missing from previous life memory in his mind, and the trajectory of his life that he can remember in his previous life has changed. got a little blurry.

Fortunately, the logic of thinking and behavior, and even a lot of knowledge that has been learned is still preserved.

When faced with these problems he encountered, his brain consciousness can make judgments and choices based on the current situation.

As for whether this choice is correct and effective, and whether it can solve the current problem, there is no way to think further.

Moreover, these slightly mixed thoughts were actually just fleeting thoughts that passed by Yang Chu when he was sitting quietly in the back of the taxi just now.

Poon Road Public Library has bright and clean windows and a good environment.

The library doesn't look too big, with four or five employees working with brooches on their chests.

As soon as Yang Chu entered the library, he quickly glanced at the various sections on the bookshelf, and quickly found the biological and medical areas.

There are not too many books, about the size of four long rows of bookshelves, and there are new and old books on the bookshelves. It can be seen that in addition to purchasing, some of them should come from private donations.

Most of these books are in traditional Chinese, and a few also have one or two in simplified Chinese among them, and a large part of them are in English, but Yang Chu doesn't seem to be under too much pressure.

Yang Chu quickly swept across the rows of bookshelves, and quickly stood on one of the bookshelves, pulling out a book from above.

The title of the book is "The Most Familiar Stranger", and the subtitle is a journey of self-knowledge and potential discovery.

Yang Chu glanced at the catalogue, turned over a few pages hastily, and felt that he should be able to read it, so he put it on the bookshelf at hand and continued to look for other books.

He picked up two more books, called "Efficient Rest Method" and "Concentrated Sleep Method". After looking at the catalogue, he could intuitively find what he needed and put them in front of him. on the bookshelf divider, keep looking.

"Can't sleep?"

Just as Yang Chu was carefully selecting books, a gentle voice suddenly sounded beside him.

Yang Chu turned his head to look and saw a handsome young man with earphones in his ears, who was pushing a pile of books on a stroller past him.

Appears to be library staff.

"Yes, I can't get enough time to fall asleep." Yang Chu casually echoed.

"I often can't sleep at night."

The handsome young man said with a shy and gentle smile on his face as he put a few books on the next shelf. , "If you want to try to sleep well, you can take a look at this book—"

Said, the handsome young man handed an old book in his hand to Yang Chu.

Yang Chu took the book and glanced at the title "Why We Sleep", which seemed to be what he needed, and nodded lightly: "many thanks!"

"You're welcome!"

The handsome young man laughed, pushing the books on the trolley and walking towards the other bookshelves.

Yang Chu casually glanced at the books on the other party's cart, "Why We Born Here", "The Weakness of Human Nature", "Personality Test" and several books on the top were reflected. eye.

After the handsome young man left, Yang Chu didn't pay much attention to it, and was still browsing in front of the rows of bookshelves.

He doesn't get a book and starts reading now, but continuously finds the books he wants from the bookshelf and puts them in front of him.

The current body is still standing and walking, his brain consciousness not only controls the major internal systems of the body, but also controls the movement system. Without the subconscious controlling the body, if he reads A little fascinated, the whole person will not stand, but will suddenly fall down.

He wants to read for a longer period of time, but he still wants to minimize the investment of his brain consciousness in other areas.

"Save Your Sleep", "Wake Up Your Sleeping Brain", "Efficient Brain Work Method", "Second Brain", "Brain Restorative Technique", "Explanation of Consciousness", "Brain Nerve Atlas" ", "Introduction to Brain Science"...

Yang Chu has searched for more than ten books, new or old, from the bookshelf. As long as he thinks it may be useful, or can open up some of his ideas, he will Leave.

Then, holding a pile of books, he walked to the reading seat not far from the bookshelf.

Sit down on the seat with dozens of books in his arms, naturally attracting the attention of many people around him.

But Yang Chu also ignored others' eyes. After sitting down, he straightened his posture and began to read books.

The first thing Yang Chu wants to understand is why people sleep.

He seems to have some memories of this aspect in his consciousness, but it is not clear enough, and many seem to be forgotten.

And these contents focus not on why people sleep, but on the consequences of lack of sleep, the harm of staying up late to the body, and so on.

Dizzy, physically and mentally exhausted, unable to concentrate, unable to remember things, blank mind when thinking, decreased ability to react, difficult to control emotions, more susceptible to disease, more susceptible to cancer, It is more likely to age, feel uncomfortable and so on.

Yang Chu understands the serious consequences of these lack of sleep, but they are far from the answers he wants.

Opening a few books, Yang Chu slowly found some explanations.

It should be said to be speculation and conjecture.

The first argument is that sleep is about maintaining energy.

In the beginning of evolution, animals lacked food. Sleep is to lower the basal metabolic rate, allow energy to be conserved, and restore energy lost during the day, similar to the need for hibernation in some animals.

But this statement seems to be inaccurate now. With the advancement of evolution, energy intake is no longer a problem for humans.

If sleep is to maintain energy, then add enough energy, people can not sleep.

Therefore, sleep must have other meanings besides energy conservation.

The second argument is that sleep is for memory.

Sleep contributes to the repair of nerve tissue, and has a certain protective and consolidation effect on memory.

There is some truth to this statement, and it can be recognized, but it still seems insufficient.

Third Type is effective in removing metabolic waste from the brain during sleep, thereby restoring vitality.

Most of the metabolites in the human brain are discharged from the brain cells into the interstitial fluid between the cells. Another secreted liquid, cerebrospinal fluid, has the function of supplying nutrients to the brain and expelling metabolic wastes. The cerebrospinal fluid flows into the brain along the periarterial space, exchanges with the interstitial fluid of brain cells, and carries the metabolic wastes of the intercellular fluid to the perivenous space, and then drains out of the brain.

The intercellular spaces in the brain are larger during sleep than when awake, which means that cerebrospinal fluid is more likely to enter the brain and exchange with interstitial fluid during sleep. Sleep may prevent the accumulation of toxic metabolites that damage brain cells .

Sleeping is like taking a bath with cerebrospinal fluid to wash away the accumulated metabolic waste. The role of sleep can be described as a real "detox".

Yang Chu still thinks there is some truth to this statement.

Probably not quite, but part of sleep should have this.

In addition, it is also said that sleep is related to immunity, and sleep produces a specific secreted protein with antibacterial properties.

People often feel tired and sleepy during illness, but in fact, the increased need for sleep during illness is due to the release of signaling molecules by the autoimmune and nervous system, not the infectious agent itself.

Others such as, sleep was originally just a primordial function for organisms to satisfy at the beginning of evolution. As for what this primordial function is, there is no conclusion. Later, in the process of evolution, sleep slowly gained more functions.

Sleeping is to improve brain function, sleep is related to Earth's circadian rhythm, sleep at night is to avoid natural enemies and so on.

From many books, Yang Chu did not get an exact and complete answer.

He doesn't know that there are too few books here, or that there is no such answer for the time being based on human's cognition of themselves and creatures.

But Yang Chu feels he's got something to gain.

Moreover, Yang Chu found a few words in this pile of books that made him feel Interesting.

One is that we don't sleep at all, "awakening" is what we have to do.

Most low-level creatures have neither sleep nor awakening, and are in a state of low perception and low motivation for a long time.

Such as all plants, bacteria, viruses, plankton, even Insect, etc. They outnumber humans and all animals combined. They move day after day mechanically and never wake up. Human beings have awakened from lower biological species, gained wisdom, and gained the active power to control their own lives.

In these books, Yang Chu also learned a lot that he didn't know before --

In mammals and birds, analyzing sleep eye movements can help. Divide sleep into two major stages - REM sleep and non-REM sleep.

REM sleep is characterized by the rapid movement of the eyeballs, but also includes high-frequency, low-swing EEG and reduced activity of EMG. Most dreams occur at this stage.

Non-REM sleep accounts for approximately 75-80% of adult sleep. During non-REM sleep, dreams are relatively rare. Non-REM sleep consists of 4 stages, the first two stages are light sleep, and the fourth rank stage is deep sleep. Each stage of sleep has different characteristics.

There are also many animals that sleep less than humans, such as elephants, which only need two hours of sleep a day.

Some marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, don't even need to put their entire brains to sleep, their left and right brains can take turns resting, so that half of the brain is always present at any time Can be awake for daily tasks. Some small animals don't even sleep much in order to prevent them from being caught by predators.

In addition to these books about the water surface, Yang Chu found something worth trying in some books about the "subconscious mind".

Cultivate a subconscious mind that you can control.

For example, if an ordinary person suddenly sees something flying towards him, or encounters a frontal attack, subconsciously will close his eyes.

But a trained boxer or other fighter has completely mastered this subconscious instinct in the long-term training. When facing an attack, not only will he not close his eyes, but will look Know the route of the attack, so that the body can dodge.

"How is it, you've been sitting for almost a day, have you found the solution you want to sleep?"

A gentle voice sounded again in my ear.

Yang Chu lifts the head to see the handsome young man working in the library, who is standing at the table next to him and looking at him.

It was only then that he realized that it was already dark outside, and it was already night.

Apart from the handsome young man in front of the library, everyone else had already left.

"It's a bit of a gain, but I'll have to wait until I try to find out."

Yang Chu also understood the other party's intention, and the library should be ready to close. This afternoon, he has gained a lot, and for some unknown reason, he has read all the books he has selected, and has also understood bits and pieces.

Close the book and stand up from the desk.

But it was probably due to sitting for too long. Although he kept his heart beating and blood circulation all the time, he still had some blood stagnation in his lower extremities. After getting up, he unconsciously fell to the side.

"Be careful!"

The handsome young man, with quick eyes and quick hands, hugged Yang Chu and said with a slight smile, "I don't think you have moved since you were sitting, and you have to stand a little bit. Get up and do some exercise..."

"Thank you, I'm fine!"

Yang Chu slightly accelerated the beating of his heart, and his body's blood circulation speed increased. The paralyzed state has been removed, and there is no need to continue to support.

"You recovered quickly!"

The handsome young man looked at Yang Chu's recovery in a short time, with a slight surprise on his face.

"I've been sitting for a while."

Yang Chu laughed and asked the handsome young man in front of him, "By the way, where is the restroom?"

Having said that, Yang Chu took another look at the rectangular brooch on the chest of the handsome young man. The brooch was a work card with a few English letters on it-XUXI.

"My name is Xu Xi."

The handsome young man noticed Yang Chu's gaze, still showing a shy smile, and then pointed to the other side of the library, " Just turn the corner."

(end of chapter)