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  • your optimistic because your too tired to disagree with anyone lol

  • Another sign that stupid people are happier.

  • This study's experimental procedure would also ended up depriving participants of REM sleep (dreams) which in an fMRI would resemble a waking state in the brain.

  • the study must only be examining short term sleep deprivation. Continued loss of sleep is known to result in irritability as well as a long list of negative mental and physical symptoms

  • So strange, last week i'd been awake for over 30 hours and i did feel it, and i thought exactly this. I've just stumbled on this by accident.

  • So when you're sleep deprived you're happier but stupider. Great.

  • I get ten times more bitchy and depressed when I don't sleep!

  • Bull shit.

  • When I don't sleep I get really depressed. Huh.

  • When I'm depressed I sleep a lot...

  • @ 3:02

    I use linux. Fuck you. Seriously. My god I'm drunk. Seriously. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh.

  • This is a truly ignorant interpretation of scientific data. I'm going to use it in my university courses to teach my students how *not* to interpret scientific data. Briefly: (1) The "optimistic" people that the researchers identified were people who sleep fewer hours, but did *not* necessarily feel deprived of sleep. (2) There are at least hundreds of studies that have shown actual sleep deprivation to have a wide variety of negative health & behavioral consequences,

  • i wanna motorboat you

  • @RealityGrapple Good to know. I suppose judgement and emotional reaction can effect each other.

  • All my wildest ideas come late at night and then in the morning i realise how stupid they are.

  • thats so interesting.... ya....

  • 0:27 (insert reason why cenk and ana are the backbone of the show here)

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  • ana, you should go all night long. itll make you optimistic.

  • All I get from this is that you get bad att assessing an outcome of a situation if you're deprived of sleep. What does optimism have to do with anything? Is optimistic really the correct descriptive term, I'd much rather go with "shit". When I'm deprived of sleep I am usually quite shit. Yes, that sounds just about right.

  • @Frefflica optimism has everything to do with it because they scanned the areas in the brain that are responsible for optimism and cynicism specifically. you literally become more aware of positive outcomes than you do of negative ones, when you have less sleep.

  • I got three and a half hours of sleep last night MY LIFE IS SO AWESOME OMG!!

  • my stepfather hasn't been sleeping for 20 + years and he's so positive and optimistic. I sleep like a baby and wake i have bitch moments . . . . .

  • i understand, when you dont sleep you think " how nice its gonna be to get home and take it easy and then just sleep"

  • I find I am better at selling credit cards and such when I work an early shift and have very little sleep under my belt. But under enough sleep, my body language is less optimistic and since body language is a big part of the sealing the deal, I don't do as well.

  • yeah, makes you optimistic... optimistic that you'll get some sleep soon

  • This is weird, After about 36 hours of no sleep, I experienced a near "spiritual awakening" and was incredibly optimistic, then I got really pissed off at EVERYTHING

  • Um. No.

  • This is ABSOLUTE CRAP! My Mom is UBER sleep deprived and she's pissed off all the time.

  • this study is 100% true. when i'm sleep-deprived, i'm way more optimistic that i will fuck up anybody who messes with my tired, grumpy ass.

    unfortunately, i'm a middle-class american. which means i'm perpetually sleep deprived; i'm too busy earning enough taxable income to support the plutocracy's tax cuts to actually contribute to economic growth, but thats ok, the outlook is great!

  • It'll fuck up your judgment but not necessarily make you more optimistic.

  • @claytonemoorejr no, watch the video again.

  • I doesn't for me! I have extensive experience with this. This is a load of shit. LOAD OF SHIT!!!!!!!!

  • 100% true, I'm much more active and optimistic, if i haven't slept a night! I always wondered why i'm more active when i haven't slept, now i know thanks!

  • So, guantanamo bay detainees must be the most optimistic bunch on earth.

  • More like sleep deprived people are generally more motivated...

    DUH

  • These findings are BS. I'm pessimistic as hell when I haven't gotten enough sleep.

  • get more sleep.

  • anyone remember when this show was hosted by some guy named Cenk? Anyways, he was awesome.

  • I lose sleep, and I'm actually more financially conservative...

  • When I first got insomnia I fell into a 6 mouth depression wasn't to optimistic.Plus how is not focusing on the negitive aspects of your life a good thing,sure it can be when things are out of your power to improve.But when I look at the negitive parts of my life it gives me motivation to improve them.I don't get better at guitar by not looking at my mistakes and saying I am awesome.

  • When I first got insomnia I fell into a 6 mouth deperation

  • I'm calling B.S. on this study. I feel suicidal/homicidal when I'm deprived of sleep.

  • @Illyria23alyssa You should really get that checked my friend

  • "Sleep Deprivation Makes You Optimistic - study"

    There's also a study which shows that sleep deprivation makes soldiers perform almost as if they're drunk. No doubt people will use this to say crap like "see, see! Science says one day chocolate is good, then bad the day after, haha!".

    Yeah but being drunk may make you uncoordinated, being optimistic doesn't contradict the studies showing that uncoordinated movement is common among drunks.

  • i think students , and workers across the world can all atest to the fact that they feel cranky after they dont get much sleep. this is a bunch of crap.

  • this is true. i stayed awake for 10 days...went for a drive and was so optomistic i actually saw heaven. oh yea i died.

  • The less you sleep, the more optimistic you will be about getting some sleep.

  • Damn... Wes Clark is so full of it. TYT is really starting to blow.

  • Are they optimistic or just with poor judgement though?

  • truth

  • sounds like a crappy study that revolves around the general I.Q. versus how the brain actually works while sleep deprived

    most people hope or thing things will go their way, and being less able to comprehend their individual situations means they are more likey to think positively about their situation.

    If an extremely intelligent individual or pessimist was sleep deprived it would have little to no effect on their general life outlook, aside from them being upset at being tired

  • Sleep deprivation makes my cranky and angry at the world.

    I'm calling bullshit on this "study".

  • Who carries out these studies and why are the resources not being used for something more worthwhile? Still waiting on that cure for cancer, eggheads. Bottom line, I can get little to no sleep at night and in the morning I am a grumpy bastard from hell until I get some coffee or a strong cup of tea. I'd wager that most people are the same. These scientists may have qualifications but I'd not trust most of them with the common sense to be able to sit the right way round on a fucking toilet.

  • @DoctorKandosii You know, it's with knowledge of such tests that medicine and drugs are developed.

  • I'm calling bullshit.

  • Another apparent worthless study.

    Thanks for nothing.

  • LOL! This is the biggest lie I think I've heard. Being sleep deprived makes me depressed at everything and cry about everything. I'm sad and want to curl up into a ball and disappear. I basically have chronic depression when I sleep,

  • Sure, cause the last time I woke up after a 3 hour sleep, head pounding, reeking of Holsten, I thought to myself "gee wilikers, I bet it's gonna be a super swell day today!"

  • I get insanely grumpy when I don't get my sleep...

  • Whenever I'm sleep deprived, I get cranky.

  • I've noticed that it's vaguely pointless to listen to these guys talk about anything other than politics. They're almost never correct on the science.

  • Ehh, I get less than 6 hours of sleep MOST of the time n i am not optimistic, n I hate spending my money on useless junk. I almost never spend money. I guess I'm just too cheap n responsible.

  • I am one of those people that needs their sleep and would likely die within 72 - 96 hours without sleep. Living on the low left end of the bell curve evolutionarily I envy those that require less and are sustained by the lower right of the bell curve. I wish I could occupy their territory and relocate them to mine. The lucky bastards, lol.

  • @zoxovox Lern2Science

  • Seems like they must be talking about a short window of time, a couple of hours, where this may be the case after which the study is no longer applicable. I would like to see the exact definition of "optimistic" they are using since it is synonymous with words like trusting... which is synonymous with believing, confiding, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, unquestioning, unsuspecting. Same reason why it is used for training, discipline and torture in the military amongst other places.

  • From experience, I'll say you get a subtle buzz after skipping sleep for one night... but after 2 nights shits gets awful.

  • @rushindulen I agree.

  • I like how West doesnt give a fuck about this.

  • Not sleeping makes me depressed and pissed at everyone.

  • Well ... sample size of one here, but when I get sleep deprived, I revert to more automatic behaviour and thought processes. My ability to think my way through an issue or engage in any abstraction or induction is minimal. I just become a mindless machine. Give me sleep, I can figure things out and be more creative, connecting the dots, so to speak. Lack of sleep, I'm very unpleasant to be around. We are all unique pieces of work.

    Sincerely ... Walter Garbotz, Ontario, Canada

  • Mmmm I dunno if I believe this. I have had insomnia before and when that happens I start to panic and get upset that I can't sleep....when I'm very very tired though I for whatever reason find everything and anything hilarious lol.

  • @pazomblez true as hell, I has depression cause I lacked alot of sleep

  • I was VERRRRY skeptical at this at first, but I guess when you think about it as TOO optimistic then this makes sense as brain functions not working right.

  • @TheIronweasle Is it optimism or zombie trance...  -ism...

  • this is definitely BS...over the long term sleeping less than you need to each night makes you more vulnerable to all sorts of stressors, makes anxiety harder to deal with, and depression more likely to set in.

  • @pazomblez

    this is a well established fact...and as disrxt says the research refers to short-term deprivation.

  • glenn beck must be sleeping way too long

  • I really think it can go both ways. If you're generally a pessemistic person, chances are sleep deprivation will enhance that negativity; likewise, if you're by default an optimistic person, sleep deprivation might enhance that positivity in your judgment. In short, whichever way we tend to lean, we will habitually lean; and if our judgment is clouded by lack of sleep, we'll most likely not be as perceptive to any contradictory evidence as we would be if we were thinking with more clarity.

  • Who knew. More sleep makes you smarter. Everyone

  • Yeah I do that with procrastination; thinking I can get an over abundance of things done the night before. Wes is Jr I suppose?

  • Yeah I do that with procrastination; thinking I can get an over abundance of things done the night before.

  • wes clark comes off smarmy as fuck. ugh. he needs to go away. 

  • I don`t know about anyone else, but when I am really tired I laugh at everything.

  • @dhebert111 medical residency has changed laws about shifts to not exceed 30 consecutive hours because reserch found that a brain sleep deprived after 24 hours functions comparably to a brain with a blood alcohol level of 0.1. illegal to drive (0.08) yet legal to operate on someone. your giddyness when sleep deprived can probably be thought of the same uninhibited laughter that people can have when under the influence of alcohol...

  • @tyrannosaurusinf14 A lot of doctors use a drug called Provigil, it`s a non addictive safe drug, that lets you stay up for 40 or so hours without side effects. It doesnt make you jittery or anything like that, and if you do want to sleep while you are under the effects you are able to. It`s good for them because a lot of the time they have to drive home after a 30 hour shift and it saves lives.

  • I wasn't very optimistic about almost failing my exam today because I couldn't concentrate...

  • Are you shitting me?! Sleep deprived = Angry at everything for me.

  • @RelativistSlayer Ditto.

    Sleep deprivation makes me extremely irritable, negative and the littlest things will tick me off. Basically it makes me a bitch

  • @RelativistSlayer Anger =/= pessimist.

    Hitler, Genghes Khan, William the Conqueorer. All optimist. All pretty anger.

  • @RelativistSlayer case in point? haha

  • @RelativistSlayer omfg me too every lil thing tht goes wrong i wanna punch tht person in the face

  • @RelativistSlayer They're talking about judgement not emotional reaction

  • Sleep deprivation also triggers episodes of mental illness for bi-polar people.

  • @TheInquiringOne yes specially on "Study" and scientific topics.

  • I'm not optimistic after I'm sleep deprived ...I'm just an asshole/

  • @skimaskradio i'm one all the time. could be the narcolepsy. could be i'm just an asshole. meh.

  • the dude in the middle has nothing interesting to say, He is just awkward after someone else gives their opinion.

  • Yeah, I'll be optimistic that I may lay my head down on a pillow soon...

  • BULLSHIT!!!

  • This must be what affects Cenk. He is always way to optimistic about Democrats and the American system. He gets enough sleep to call out mouth breathing Republicans, but he does not get enough to slam Democrats. He has the false idea that they are wanting to do good, but are just bad at bargaining and are powerless in situations -- which is totally not true since they actually agree with the GOP on far more than they disagree. My recommendation: Cenk, get some f-ing sleep, bro.

  • @TheInquiringOne I said no one cares about your opinion, doesn't mean I'm not going to tell you that. Yes a new program that has always done partial news and partial pop culture "fluff" stories. If you don't like it move onto the next video. I happen to have fun responding to stupid comments such as yours, but you've turned out to be pretty boring with your A B C's with points you seem to be rather good. Don't worry I wont waste anymore of my life on you.

  • I am often sleep deprived and go to meetings the next day. I do feel much more optimistic in those meetings, but fried, lol.

  • I've noticed that as an insomniac, when I have bad bouts and get almost no sleep, I stop caring about things I should car about. Money being one of them, and how I spend my money. And work. If I haven't slept at all, I say fuck it, and don't go to work. But then if I'm on maybe 2 hours of sleep or something I prefer not to drive. Rather not die going to work because my reaction time is so badly impaired, and I zone out.

  • This makes no sense. You have a better outlook when you get no sleep? That's fucking retarded.

  • This is bad pop psychology. We don't even know why we sleep - though the newest ideas may finally have a clue - sleep is the 2nd half of a daily digestion cycle. We wake and begin eating and digestion. Then during sleep we stop eating, and finish digesting using the digested food for growth and repair, then prepare waste out and wake and repeat.

  • @TomHendricksMusea ah, well, they want to talk about it because its interesting, but are unqualified to make those kinds of observations. give them a break, its the internet, and people like yourself can add a valuable 2 cents to help.

  • I just lost £250 gambling and I had very little sleep.

  • @TheInquiringOne You can have you opinion but no one cares. You don't go to a comedy show and then bitch that the guy told too many jokes. The show has never stuck to the serious stories so you're complaining for the sake of complaining. I never claimed anyone cared about my opinion. I'm not the one getting upset about the show following the same format it always has.

  • what a shitty study!

  • Meh, don't what everyone's complaining about, they give a new point if view to the show

  • Not optimistic delirious

  • I have CFS and i'm physically unable to sleep. And im not optimistic at all. I'm rather sad or pessimistic. So i don't quite know how to feel about this study

  • If you're sleep deprived you're awake more and you can't spend as much when you're asleep.

  • Maybe this is why people stay at crappy unrewarding and overly stressful jobs forever.

  • I don't like the guy in the middle. I don't know why exactly. And Ana is more talented and intelligent than both of them.

  • @mathforphysics It doesn't look like they fit in somehow. I know what they're trying to do with Cenk away on MSNBC and everything, I think they just need to keep trying. Something about this is just off and it doesn't compare to the rawness and spontaneous quick wit Cenk has and the flow Ana brings to the show. These guys are like dry toast. They have the personality of a roof shingle! It's like new paint over old paint. You can tell the old paint was there. That's all I have to say.

  • @TheInquiringOne The Show isn't supposed to be all serious. They have always said that it's supposed to be half and half. Some people like these stories. If you aren't interested here's an idea DON'T WATCH THEM.

    p.s. no one cares what you think.

  • the study was based around RISK, calling this "optimistic" give the meaning a to wide perimeters

  • Sleep deprivation leads to poor judgement, which could err on the optimistic side. Hmm... not sure if that's optimism or delusion...

  • Why do I feel that companies are going to exploit this by flashing a bunch of lights in your house?

  • "Optimism is cowardice."- Oswald Spengler

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  • misleading title

  • so optimism is lack of jdugement (induced for example by sleep deprevation)

    but my anecodotal experience is totally the other way round - less sleep means less feeling of well being means less confidence

  • another stupid story.

  • Lol how am I supposed to relate to this? I've been freaking depressed over all the school work I've been having and depriving myself of sleep for it. I think it's just bad wording. Sleep deprivation impairs your judgment, it doesn't make you more optimistic.

  • When you're sleep deprived you just care less about the outcome of your actions, I wouldn't call that "optimism".

  • old news.

    there are drugs and vermin that do the same.

    It has been used in therapy of clinically depressed.

    first you get cranky but after a full night you get a high, it is "ment" to make you take more risk and power up short-term to resolve the situation.

  • So less sleep makes you NAÏVE and LESS RATIONAL.

    More sleep makes you realistic and rational.

    I prefer the last one.

  • huge tits!

  • That's silly.... It's not that one is more optimistic or not,you're just making decisions with less sleep leading to bad outcomes.

  • this video cured my insomnia

  • Complete bull. I was so sleep deprived a couple of weeks ago because of all this study and i have never been so unwell. I couldn't function and I became really sick. I'm 17 years old and I got shingles. Shingles substantially effects the older population and the doctor thought it was really weird I got it. 

  • AH! MY FUCKING EARS! tyt needs to go back to those big ass mics even if they take up 1/5 of the screen

  • His name is Malcolm, douche.

  • Ana you are beautiful. Never leave TyT!

  • That guy in the middle is annoying.

  • i wanna suck Ana's tits

  • This study is 100% true.

  • Ana is such a Fucktard XD.

  • Horrible misrepresentation of the research, it's a short term effect that fades if sleep deprivation is chronic. Next time read the whole fucking study.

  • @disrxt good call

  • @disrxt - totally agree and not only that but they are totally misrepresenting what "positive outcome" means in this study. It has little to do with optimism and more to do with the inability to correctly identify (and stick to) effective strategies and possibly an disruption in the ability to learn from feedback after a period of sleep deprivation.

  • @disrxt agreed, having narcolepsy, i can assure you Ana, that being deprived of sleep does not lead to optimism. Perhaps with a few hours of extra sleep, you might be able to sit through reading the entire study. Sleep deprivation, Ana, leads to ppl experiencing the same effects of 2 many beers-'beer muscles', but only in the extremely short term.

  • @disrxt well said

  • @disrxt correct. when i went through residency CHRONIC sleep deprivation definitely did not make me an optimistic person!

  • uhhhh no I get really depressed when I'm sleepy

  • I had 3 hours of sleep last night, and my cock is about 11 inches long

  • That makes sense. Whenever I miss a night of sleep, I feel like my frustration and anger levels are both half full!

  • Ana looks like even more of an idiot than usual when she sits alongside these two, particularly Wes.

  • Ana, stop gambling before work...

  • Nonsense... It's not optimism if the worries are still there but you are just too tired to care.

    I am OCD & Pessimistic & while sleep depraved, I am less agitated but only because I am too tired... not because the negative thoughts go away.

  • "Pessimist" is what optimists call realists.

  • These scientists need to talk to high school students. High school= sleep deprivation

  • I think increased optimism probably helped out ancestors feel comfortable enough to sleep at a time when a large carnivore might poke it's nose into your cave. Cause if you don't sleep, you'll die anyway.

  • I don't sleep for shit and I'm a pretty optimistic guy.......

  • Marijuana makes me optimistic...but then it wears off

  • How is it surprising that sleep deprivation causes lack of attentiveness? Being inattentive and negligent isn't really the same thing as being optimistic and cheerful. That's why there's so much inconsistency with these types of behavioral studies and what people's actual experiences are, in that they just arbitrarily label something as optimism to make it look like a new revelation instead of using scientific terms.

  • so...republicans never sleep at all?

  • @dagrimmreepa Republicans are not optimism... they are just opportunistic amoralist

  • @BioCapsule I was referring to the part where Anna said that sleep deprivation screws up your ability to properly judge spending.

  • @dagrimmreepa I know... if by republicans you only mean their voting base than I will agree... but if you mean the actually party members which I think are complicit corporate sellout... then there's nothing to do with optimistic or not. :D

  • @BioCapsule Haha, yeah, obviously the normal folk who vote for them... although I'm not sure if "normal" is the right word lol

  • Bullshit. I was sleep deprived for 3 months and I was close to an emotional breakdown in the middle of school

  • Ana, that's not sleep deprivation.. that's called being a woman.

  • this cant be true. if so i would be the most optomistic person in the world

  • When I don't get a good night's sleep, I feel miserable all day and everything sucks. I can't imagine who wakes up exhausted thinking things are going great.

  • Spending a lot!?

    Sleep deprived?

    This is college life 101 xD

  • Bull Shit

  • So...

    ignorance IS a bliss -.-