Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments
Our culture is a sleep-deprived culture. While that is obvious to many, it is helpful every once in a while to call out the larger dynamic, the water we swim in.
Tags:Energy pods, global economic meltdown, sleep deprivation
Filed Under: Sleep Research
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 13, 2008 | No Comments
Continuing with the theme of sleep deprivation, here’s a new article from Science Daily about the collegiate rites of passage into our sleepless culture. College kids are lampooned as being slackers, but they are actually one of the most sleep deprived segments of Western culture.
Ha – I”m amused that I”m writing this post at 11pm, [...]
Tags:sleep deprivation
Filed Under: Sleep Research
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 4, 2008 | No Comments
Check out this amusing and poignant narrative about sleep deprivation and the American Dream as it is practiced in the deep South. The author concludes with a list of facts about sleep deprivation and dreams from the National Sleep Research Project.
Parents might find this statistic particularly interesting: A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours [...]
Tags:Anthropology of Consciousness, sleep
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Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
Check out the English translation of this mainstream piece on sleep and dream research just out of Korea. This article about the benefits of sleep is more holistic than the usual reductionist perspective that comes out of New York. Which is to say, the Korean piece succeeded in mentioning dreaming at all. [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, lucid dreams, sleep
Filed Under: Sleep Research
