Sleep: Defragmenting the Mind
Perpetually fascinated by the subconscious, this intrigues me:
- Rats deprived of sleep die faster than rats that are deprived of food
- Some sadist actually implemented and tested the aforementioned bullet to the point of death.
- Memory consolidation takes place (defragmenting)
…if our brains did what they do during dreams while awake, we would be diagnosed as mentally ill. Yet we enter into this cousin of delirious insanity every night. “Do we go mad at night to prevent ourselves from doing so in the day time?” Hobson has asked. “Or do we go mad because the brain temporarily gives up certain of its controls in order to regain them, in better order, when sleep ends?” - Harvard sleep researcher, J. Allan Hobson
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