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Sleep is a vital bodily function -- even if no one knows exactly why we do it. There's a lot of sleep research, but not a lot of solid answers for the origins of sleep. But that doesn't mean we're not learning cool stuff about sleeping all the time. Here are just a few tidbits of research on the topic of sleeping. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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Filed Under: brain, circadian clock, daytime nap, lucid dreaming, napping, sleep


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    CK20XX (profile), 9 Jun 2014 @ 6:46pm

    I certainly am never going to wear lucid dreaming headgear as a replacement for shows and games unless I can alt-tab out of it as needed. It's not like it would make the experience more immersive anyway; people have been using the power of imagination to totally immerse themselves in the worlds of others for centuries.

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    Rekrul, 9 Jun 2014 @ 9:30pm

    The few times I've managed to have lucid dreams, by realizing that I'm dreaming, I invariably wake up a few seconds later. Realizing that I'm dreaming seems to be an almost instant kill-switch for my dreams.

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    Michael, 10 Jun 2014 @ 5:13am

    How do all these people take naps during the day? Perhaps if they had a job, they could afford better medical care and live longer.

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