Neuroscience
This week's Science Times in the New York Times has a series on sleep and dreaming, including articles on sleep deprivation, nightmares, and sleeping pills.
1888 woodcut, French astronomer Camille Flammarion
- Does Sleeping Face-down Induce More Sexual Dreams?
It's a common experience for us to incorporate sounds we hear while we're sleeping into the narrative of our dreams. The real car alarm outside becomes a police siren in our exciting chase through dreamland. Given the way activities and sensations...
- Not Such A Bad Night's Sleep
From 'The Archives', first published in the Digest 2/2/2004 For the 33 percent of Americans who suffer from insomnia, a good night's sleep is no more than a dream. Part of the their problem could be that they overestimate how long it takes...
- You're Feeling Very Sleepy
Just thinking that they’ve not had much sleep could interfere with the daytime functioning of imsomniacs, regardless of whether they actually had enough sleep or not. Twenty-two students (average age 21 years) with primary insomnia were recruited by...
- Olfaction, Memory, And Sleep
From today's New York Times: Scent Activates Memory During Sleep, Study Says By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: March 8, 2007 Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering...
- Dreaming
Several news organizations are publishing reports about a forthcoming paper in the Annals of Neurology concerning a case study about the loss of dreaming as a consequence of a stroke. One of the authors of the report, Dr. Claudio L. Bassetti, is quoted...
Neuroscience
To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause...
-- William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be
(from Hamlet 3/1)
Jacob's Dream woodcut, Lubeck Bible 1494
This week's Science Times in the New York Times has a series on sleep and dreaming, including articles on sleep deprivation, nightmares, and sleeping pills.
1888 woodcut, French astronomer Camille Flammarion
- Does Sleeping Face-down Induce More Sexual Dreams?
It's a common experience for us to incorporate sounds we hear while we're sleeping into the narrative of our dreams. The real car alarm outside becomes a police siren in our exciting chase through dreamland. Given the way activities and sensations...
- Not Such A Bad Night's Sleep
From 'The Archives', first published in the Digest 2/2/2004 For the 33 percent of Americans who suffer from insomnia, a good night's sleep is no more than a dream. Part of the their problem could be that they overestimate how long it takes...
- You're Feeling Very Sleepy
Just thinking that they’ve not had much sleep could interfere with the daytime functioning of imsomniacs, regardless of whether they actually had enough sleep or not. Twenty-two students (average age 21 years) with primary insomnia were recruited by...
- Olfaction, Memory, And Sleep
From today's New York Times: Scent Activates Memory During Sleep, Study Says By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: March 8, 2007 Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering...
- Dreaming
Several news organizations are publishing reports about a forthcoming paper in the Annals of Neurology concerning a case study about the loss of dreaming as a consequence of a stroke. One of the authors of the report, Dr. Claudio L. Bassetti, is quoted...