The Science of Sleep

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Grab your Baku embroidered pillows, a warm glass of milk and snuggle your bunnies because this week we dive down behind the walls of sleep- exploring the backboards of consciousness as we trounce through its four stages and make careful notation of any glitches we discover along the way.

Topics this week include:
-Brainwaves
-Stages of Sleep
-Memory and Dreaming
-Do rats dream of cheese?
-How to remember dreams
-Sleep Paralysis
-Prophetic Dreams
-Exploding Head Syndrome
-The Astral
-Hypnagogic jerks
-Being stuck in a dream

On the extended show (www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit) we discuss:

-GossamerLights personal experiences with sleep paralysis...
-Childhood dreams
-Mari’s dream world
-Reddit stories of sleep paralysis
-How to die from lack of sleep

Sources:
Randy Gardener:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

Maya:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/maya-Indian-philosophy

Sleep Cycles:
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Understanding-Sleep

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6165862/

EEG and brain frequencies:
http://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/psychology/chapter/stages-of-sleep/

Biochemistry of Sleep:
https://poweronpoweroff.com/blogs/longform/the-neurochemistry-of-sleep

Dream and memory:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534695/

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