Was up at 2am (after getting away from the Gate only at 10pm), to man the security desk... after my shift finally finishe at 9am, instead of sleeping, I went off into London because the thought of staying in my temporary work accomodation in Hounslow was so depressing, I'd rather be knackered than there.
Human Stupidity pages by Vexen Crabtree:
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant.
I'm slowly finishing the wonderful book "Neuroscience" (Bear, Connors and Paradiso), all about the brain, and thought I'd share three of the random things I've noted:
- To quote from a book by James Horne entitled Why We Sleep, "Many people feel that, despite 50 years of research, all we can conclude about the function of sleep is that it overcomes sleepiness"
- Some animals (but not Humans) can die from lack of sleep.
- Us humans spend about 1/12th of our lives dreaming.
I've added these to "The Biology of Dreaming" by Vexen Crabtree (2005).
I haven't got a page about the biology sleep in general, just about dreaming and nightmares and dream analysis and the like. On the same website is a dream diary containing dozens of my most epic and fascinating dreams, although I (unfortunately) haven't been having them for a few years now. Too busy!
