http://vexen.vox.com/library/posts/tags/nightmares/page/1/ en Vox Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:50:07 +0100 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss nightmares http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/some-notes-on-sleep.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/some-notes-on-sleep.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/some-notes-on-sleep.html?_c=feed-rss-full Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:50:07 +0100 <p>I&#39;m slowly finishing&#160;the wonderful book &quot;<em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0781760038/vexencrabtree">Neuroscience</a>&quot; </em>(Bear, Connors and Paradiso), all about the brain, and thought I&#39;d share three of the random things I&#39;ve noted:</p> <p>&#160;</p> <ul> <li>To quote from a book by James Horne entitled <em>Why We Sleep</em>, &quot;Many people feel that, despite 50 years of research, all we can conclude about the function of sleep is that it overcomes sleepiness&quot;<br /></li> <li>Some animals (but not Humans) can die from lack of sleep.<br /></li> <li>Us humans&#160;spend about 1/12th of our lives dreaming.<br /></li></ul> <p>I&#39;ve added these to <a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/d/biology.html">&quot;<em>The Biology of Dreaming</em>&quot; by Vexen Crabtree</a> (2005).</p> <p>I haven&#39;t got a page about the biology sleep in general, just about <a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/d/index.html"><em>dreaming</em> and <em>nightmares</em> and <em>dream analysis</em></a> and the like. On the same website is a dream diary containing dozens of my most epic and fascinating dreams, although I (unfortunately) haven&#39;t been having them for a few years now. Too busy!</p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/some-notes-on-sleep.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c6673100cd97164d594cd5?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> dreams sleep psychology dreaming biology nightmares neuroscience neurology night terrors