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Causes

I've alphabetized the common causes of insomnia, they were unordered and haphazard before. On second thoughts, I migrated this information to it's own article for expansion.

Parkfarm mob 23:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't need its own article. I think it needs to be moved back. If everything about insomnia had its own article there would be no article for insomnia itself. 194.81.151.68 16:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should caffeine be replaced with stimulants to account for amphetamines etc. cyclosarin 17:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics for Insomnia

"The average American gets 7 hours of sleep, instead of the 8 to 10 hours recommended by doctors. Children however are recommended more than 8 hours." This statement has nothing to do with insomnia. Anyone care to comment? josta59 16 May 2007

No sleep

33 years withouth sleep. --85.226.6.231 22:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed links

I removed two links. The first was to a blog with loads of advertising and "content" that was repeated verbatim on dozens of other sites, i.e., a classic link spam site. The second link was to a web site recruiting people for sleep-disorder--releated clinical trials. Whereas this site is not spam, it is not encyclopedic. Ljosa 13:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So which is it? Can people stay up forever or not? What happens if you miss delta sleep? What happens if you miss REM sleep? If stages 1,2, and 3 don't matter, and you can miss 4 with no ill effects, and you can miss 5 with no ill effects, and there is no 6, than SURELY there is no ill effect of not sleeping at all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.157.219 (talk) 17:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Popular Culture

Does this section really contribute to or improve the quality of this article at all? Considering the sheer number of works where characters have some form of insomnia or its used as a joke, such a section seems unwieldy and useless. I propose it be removed. Collectonian 13:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In studying other high quality medical related articles, not a single one includes this sort of section. Since no one has objected to my proposal over the last 5 days, and looking at the formats of better quality articles of a similar nature (such as the formerly featured article clinical depression, I have removed the section entirely. Collectonian 13:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Proposal

I have no idea why there is a separate article discussing causes for insomnia. Maybe it was an attempted fork, or someone just didn't realize there was a main insomnia article. Regardless, the information within that article, if it is good, should be merged into this article and that one deleted or redirected here. Collectonian 06:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather not.--Rory666 09:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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	I have no idea why there is a separate article discussing causes for insomnia. Maybe it was an attempted fork, or someone just didn't realize there was a main insomnia article. Regardless, the information within that article, if it is good, should be merged into this article and that one deleted or redirected here. [[User:Collectonian\|Collectonian]] 06:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)		I have no idea why there is a separate article discussing causes for insomnia. Maybe it was an attempted fork, or someone just didn't realize there was a main insomnia article. Regardless, the information within that article, if it is good, should be merged into this article and that one deleted or redirected here. [[User:Collectonian\|Collectonian]] 06:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

			I'd rather not.--[[User:Rory666\|Rory666]] 09:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)