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Originally posted by thisisnotaname
Could our actions be it's thoughts and our deaths it's words? Would do you think about looking at it this way?
Originally posted by RedParrotHead
reply to post by thisisnotaname
This is highly unlikely. If the earth was actually alive/sentient we would be more like a virus, or maybe cancer.
Originally posted by Tea4One
If we're the world's thoughts it must be the most psychotic being in the universe who is slowly killing itself for something that is irrelevant to itself.
During sleep our brain is, in fact, extraordinarily active. As it turns out, much of that activity helps the brain to learn and remember. Sleeping is involved in the learning and memory process in several important ways. Let’s look at 3 of them.
Sleeping helps people recover forgotten skills
A study conducted by The University of Chicago concluded that sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks. It also helps people recover knowledge they thought they had forgotten over the course of a day.
For example, in one study, after learning how to play a video game much of that skill was lost within 12 hours. Amazingly, after a night’s sleep those lost abilities were restored. Why does this happen? It’s a consolidation process that brain goes through while we are asleep.
Hello, polyphasic sleep
One of the ways to force your brain into REM sleep and skip the other phases is to make it feel exhausted. If you’ve gone 24 hours without sleep, you might notice that you drift away into dreams straight from being awake. This because your body goes instantly into REM sleep as a protection mechanism. The way to hack yourself into entering REM sleep without being exhausted is to trick your body into thinking you’re going to get a tiny amount of sleep. You can train it to enter REM for short periods of time throughout the day in 20-minute naps rather than in one lump at night. This is how polyphasic sleep works....