Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved
It is one of life’s great enigmas: why do we sleep? Now we have the best evidence yet of what sleep is for – allowing housekeeping processes to take place that stop our brains becoming overloaded with new memories.
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CrazyNeutrino said:
Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solvedIt is one of life’s great enigmas: why do we sleep? Now we have the best evidence yet of what sleep is for – allowing housekeeping processes to take place that stop our brains becoming overloaded with new memories.
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What a terrible article, especially the lat section, “Protecting what matters”.
No wonder I stopped my subscription years ago.
I sleep so i’m not (so) tired during the day
me ancestors did it because’s little light at night
gets cold too sun ‘round otherside planet
so not fall of a cliff find’t danger, or get’t frostbite
there too energy conservation restin’ may
and if I quiet others can rest’n sleep too be what
yeah’n consolidate experience I no doubt
into wetware mentalese hopefully stayin’ it work
but’d caution puttin’t construction on that
culture hijackin’ I mean ya’s better off makin’t up
sleepin’ for your own reasons’n‘re private
maybe you elevate wakefulness got’t backward
that there isn’t any mystery, not a tiny bit
writ here dumb rhyme ‘cause unrhyme not do it
transition said:
I sleep so i’m not (so) tired during the day
me ancestors did it because’s little light at night
gets cold too sun ‘round otherside planet
so not fall of a cliff find’t danger, or get’t frostbite
there too energy conservation restin’ may
and if I quiet others can rest’n sleep too be what
yeah’n consolidate experience I no doubt
into wetware mentalese hopefully stayin’ it work
but’d caution puttin’t construction on that
culture hijackin’ I mean ya’s better off makin’t up
sleepin’ for your own reasons’n‘re private
maybe you elevate wakefulness got’t backward
that there isn’t any mystery, not a tiny bit
writ here dumb rhyme ‘cause unrhyme not do it
Samuel Taylor Colleridge covers it well in The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. my favourite poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dtjlPNxk_k
Sorry, that was not a good version, incomplete, and proly best to read the entire poem, which I did know by heart when I was young, and before I washed most of it away with booze.
bob(from black rock) said:
Sorry, that was not a good version, incomplete, and proly best to read the entire poem, which I did know by heart when I was young, and before I washed most of it away with booze.
Funny expression “by heart” why not “by memory”?
bob(from black rock) said:
bob(from black rock) said:
Sorry, that was not a good version, incomplete, and proly best to read the entire poem, which I did know by heart when I was young, and before I washed most of it away with booze.
Funny expression “by heart” why not “by memory”?
because the word, memorise solved that problem.
roughbarked said:
bob(from black rock) said:
bob(from black rock) said:
Sorry, that was not a good version, incomplete, and proly best to read the entire poem, which I did know by heart when I was young, and before I washed most of it away with booze.
Funny expression “by heart” why not “by memory”?
because the word, memorise solved that problem.
Wonder why it took so long?
bob(from black rock) said:
it has been around since we had a word for memory.
roughbarked said:
bob(from black rock) said:Funny expression “by heart” why not “by memory”?
because the word, memorise solved that problem.
Wonder why it took so long?
sibeen said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solvedIt is one of life’s great enigmas: why do we sleep? Now we have the best evidence yet of what sleep is for – allowing housekeeping processes to take place that stop our brains becoming overloaded with new memories.
more…
What a terrible article, especially the lat section, “Protecting what matters”.
No wonder I stopped my subscription years ago.
I thought it was a reasonably good article myself.
A bit over-hyping of the featured research, but not excessively so.
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
bob(from black rock) said:
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
How about “germs” or viral life forms? if so I wonder if they dream?
bob(from black rock) said:
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
mollwollfumble said:
bob(from black rock) said:
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
I suspect that the answer is “no”. Not only do worm species exhibit an internal circadian rhythm, I remember recently reading that even some single-celled creatures have an inbuilt circadian day-night cycle.
Which has existed since our planet formed I imagine unless it was tidally locked at some point in the far distant past
bob(from black rock) said:
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
Insomniacs.
bob(from black rock) said:
Are there any other living things, apart from plants that don’t sleep?
Yes. Fungi don’t sleep. Plenty of animals (jellyfish, scorpions) don’t sleep. Most simple organisms don’t sleep.
Fair to say that sleep is a minority activity among lifeforms generally.