{"id":4124,"date":"2018-07-22T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/while-we-sleep-our-mind-goes-on-an-amazing-journey\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:06:27","slug":"while-we-sleep-our-mind-goes-on-an-amazing-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/while-we-sleep-our-mind-goes-on-an-amazing-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good if breezy review of our current understanding of sleep. Most interesting factoid: turns out that fetuses dream for about a month continuously, starting at about 26 weeks.<\/p>\n

Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose, dimming our consciousness. For a while, we become almost entirely paralyzed. We can\u2019t even shiver. Our eyes, however, periodically dart about behind closed lids as if seeing, and the tiny muscles in our middle ear, even in silence, move as though hearing. We are sexually stimulated, men and women both, repeatedly. We sometimes believe we can fly. We approach the frontiers of death. We sleep.<\/p>\n

Around 350 B.C., Aristotle wrote an essay, \u201cOn Sleep and Sleeplessness,\u201d wondering just what we were doing and why. For the next 2,300 years no one had a good answer. In 1924 German psychiatrist Hans Berger invented the electroencephalograph, which records electrical activity in the brain, and the study of sleep shifted from philosophy to science. It\u2019s only in the past few decades, though, as imaging machines have allowed ever deeper glimpses of the brain\u2019s inner workings, that we\u2019ve approached a convincing answer to Aristotle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/08\/science-of-sleep\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good if breezy review of our current understanding of sleep. Most interesting factoid: turns out that fetuses dream for about a month continuously, starting at about 26 weeks. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose, dimming our consciousness. For a while, we become almost entirely paralyzed. We can\u2019t even shiver. Our eyes, however, periodically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-14w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}