Why do we need to sleep? In all of human biology, few questions are more persistent – or more mythologized – than this one. Almost as puzzling as sleep itself are sleep disorders like narcolepsy and insomnia, which make us wonder why some of us need so much more sleep than others do. David Rye, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dreams’
Deciphering Sleep: Our Interview with David Rye
December 17th, 2012 
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Posted in Feature Stories, Featured 
Tags: biochemistry, biology, consciousness, dreams, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, sleep 
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Science, Pseudoscience, and Souls
April 24th, 2012 The Connectome This article, Near Death Explained by Mario Beauregard, doesn’t actually explain what out-of-body experiences are. What it does is propose non-scientific answers derived from fallacious reasoning. Which is intensely frustrating, because Beauregard is writing about an awesome topic: What happens in our brains when we have out-of-body experiences (OBEs)? I mean, who wouldn’t want to know that? What makes [...]
Posted in Feature Stories, Featured Tags: consciousness, dreams, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology, science to the rescue! No Comments »
Podcast 2 – Consciousness, Dreams & Drugs
March 6th, 2012 The Connectome On the second Connectome podcast, Ben muses about three of the hottest topics in neuroscience today: what “consciousness” might be, how it relates to dreams, and how drugs can play some strange tricks on that relationship. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. Here’s a direct link to download the mp3. Enjoy, and feel free [...]
Posted in Featured, Podcasts Tags: consciousness, dreams, drugs, neurochemistry, psychology, senses, sleep 1 Comment »Brain Scans & Lucid Dreams
October 28th, 2011 The Connectome The brain activity of lucid dreamers – people who become aware that they’re in a dream state – shows some interesting similarities with that of people who are awake, says a new study. By studying the brain activity of lucid dreamers under electroencephalograms (EEGs) and fMRI scans, researchers have found that activity in the somatosensory [...]
Posted in Brain News Tags: consciousness, dreams, EEG, fMRI, neurophysiology, senses, sleep, technosophy 2 Comments »
