I'm thinkin' that smaller brains have that gene activated.
The brain is less powerful overall, so being awake more and using more energy from less sleep must have a negative intelligence correlation.
I say that, because I need on average of 10 hours a night to function optimally. That's almost half my life spent sleeping. I'm a terrible, terrible person without sleep. I'm also very VERY easily addicted to anything that relates to dopamine. Food even.
Autistic brains are 45% more active at rest, that further goes into me needing more sleep to get less quality.
__________________ "Compounding these trickster aspects, the Joker ethos is verbally explicated as such by his psychiatrist, who describes his madness as "super-sanity." Where "sanity" previously suggested acquiescence with cultural codes, the addition of "super" implies that this common "sanity" has been replaced by a superior form, in which perception and processing are completely ungoverned and unconstrained"
Everytime i eat i feel sleepy, but i eat a lot. I sleep a lot to and take naps when i can. I also take vitamins before bed and sometimes have to use sleeping pills but try not to.
__________________ "Compounding these trickster aspects, the Joker ethos is verbally explicated as such by his psychiatrist, who describes his madness as "super-sanity." Where "sanity" previously suggested acquiescence with cultural codes, the addition of "super" implies that this common "sanity" has been replaced by a superior form, in which perception and processing are completely ungoverned and unconstrained"
How about going to be later and getting up at the same time as everyone else?
Well, a well-documented problem with people that have high-IQs is insomnia (lack of sleep) so your theory is the exact opposite of what generally happens in reality.
I have insomnia, I just need more rest than normal. Not saying geniuses don't get even a normal amount of sleep. If geniuses got the rest they needed, along with meditation and a super-food diet that they cannot properly regiment and afford from day-to-day, they'd be peak human in multiple fields of science and athletics.
I mean super-perfects, not the phony Leonardo Davinci type polymath. These people have certain genetic overrides that allow them to utilize more energy and this superior nucleotide sequence often does more harm than good due to the stresses and restraints set upon the less-than-spoiled individuals within a capitalistic society.
Although potentially superior, what makes them genius cripples them when not bottle-fed, basically. They get strung out too early in life to even be normally successful.
__________________ "Compounding these trickster aspects, the Joker ethos is verbally explicated as such by his psychiatrist, who describes his madness as "super-sanity." Where "sanity" previously suggested acquiescence with cultural codes, the addition of "super" implies that this common "sanity" has been replaced by a superior form, in which perception and processing are completely ungoverned and unconstrained"