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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
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Subject: Re: Highway Hypnosis
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 13:46:44 EDT
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> Hard exercise definetly affects one's mental processes.
> I asked Lon Haldeman about this, he described some
> rather weird things going on in his head after several
> days and thousands of miles with almost no sleep.
> Mountain climbers often hallucinate at high altitudes.

I would be wary of attributing Haldeman's hallucinations to "hard exercise".
I think that if you were deprived of sleep to that extent, you would
start to hallucinate no matter what you were doing.

Hallucinations experienced by mountain climbers just MIGHT have something
to do with the reduced oxygen available to them.

All I am saying is, the evidence available is not enough to support your
claim; at least, not in a scientifically meaningful way.

			Dave Wagner
			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
			wagner@washington.arpa
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