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  1. EnolaGaia

    Is REM Sleep Simply A Thermostatic Brain-Warming Mechanism?

    This is an interesting hypothesis. A UCLA researcher notes correlations between brain / body temperature and REM sleep, then suggests REM phases may be the body's way of heating a brain that's grown too cold from inactivity. FULL STORY...
  2. EnolaGaia

    Natural Paralysis During Sleep

    I've long known that somehow the brain disengages the body's voluntary motor control during sleep, and I've therefore long suspected that certain sleep disorders and sleep paralysis incidents involved a malfunction in this naturally dysfunctional state. Japanese researchers have now identified...
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    Animal Sleeping Behavior (& Do They Dream?)

    Any ornithologists out there?... i read recently that "swifts sleep on the wing" How do 'they' know that?.... can you think of a way of finding it out?
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