Comments on: Science says sleep good http://dreamstudies.org/2007/11/28/science-says-sleep-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-says-sleep-good the dream studies portal Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dungan http://dreamstudies.org/2007/11/28/science-says-sleep-good/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Dungan Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:35:14 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/2007/11/28/science-says-sleep-good/#comment-183 right. of course, i'm not postulating that dreaming is the "purpose" of sleep.... only that - at least for mammals - it is certainly in the mix of what I would call "benefits." right. of course, i’m not postulating that dreaming is the “purpose” of sleep…. only that – at least for mammals – it is certainly in the mix of what I would call “benefits.”

]]> By: Sleepy http://dreamstudies.org/2007/11/28/science-says-sleep-good/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Sleepy Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:48:13 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/2007/11/28/science-says-sleep-good/#comment-182 "In the meantime, the search (for the benefit of sleep)continues. The answer, experts say, may turn out to be something obvious or something not yet dreamed of." That this is the only mention of the word 'dream' in your New York article on the purpose of sleep...well, I guess it's either a bad reductionist pun, or the accidental irony of the writer's unconscious. Either way it kinda gave me the shivers. "There is something tremendous out there," Dr. Rechtschaffen said,"and we just haven't found it yet" Maybe sleep scientists will someday find the meaning of it all. Besides all that meaning, I mean. “In the meantime, the search (for the benefit of sleep)continues. The answer, experts say, may turn out to be something obvious or something not yet dreamed of.”

That this is the only mention of the word ‘dream’ in your New York article on the purpose of sleep…well, I guess it’s either a bad reductionist pun, or the accidental irony of the writer’s unconscious. Either way it kinda gave me the shivers.

“There is something tremendous out there,” Dr. Rechtschaffen said,”and we just haven’t found it yet”

Maybe sleep scientists will someday find the meaning of it all. Besides all that meaning, I mean.

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