This was a very interesting chapter for me, simple because it is about something i excel greatly in. It i also very cool how our brain is like a different person. You are sleeping but there is so much more going on.
One thing that i thought i new but really didn't is what is sleep? What does sleep really do for us? i just asumed that when you sleep you are recharging your batteries (I am just kidding but you probly get my point), but sleep is so important to letting your brain restore it self, and letting our limbs get a rest from carring us around. I didn't know most of your growing happens while sleeping but i guess it makes sense just never really need to think about it before i took this class.
Before this chapter i really didn't know much about REM sleep, to tell you the truth i did not know it meant rapid eye movement. With that i did not know that this type of sleep is responsible for dreams. Also i did not realize how important dreams/REM sleep is to humans. It made me laugh thinking if i don't get REM sleep i could become psychotic, I never thought of it as that important.
Another thing i found intresting about this chapter is the circadian rhythm. Our bodies synchorize every 24 hours basically like the earth. Its just like earthly climates, in the morning ourbodies heat rises, as the sun is rising to heat up the earth. I think its cool for those people who are earth lovers.
I learned alot about sleep and our two-track mind and such. It all is so benificaly for the rest of your life understanding your self.
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I found the idea that without REM sleep you can become psychotic rather humorous as well. I mean, some people go crazy because of reoccuring dreams or night terrors and others because they don't dream enough. It's funny that something so good for you, can also be so bad if it isn't regulated.
ReplyDeleteBefore this chapter I never really thought about sleeping either; I didn't know there was that much to it. I also didn't know why we dreamed but I always knew they didn't mean anything because alot of my dreams are mearly impossible to be true. I think it is interesting that when people are dream deprived they go psycho and hallucinate things.
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