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!

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