The Science of Micro Sleeps

You could have fallen asleep up to five times during this podcast and not known about it. The science of sleep is really like it's difficult to work out isn't it Mark? There are a bunch of sleep researchers around the world and they work very hard. But it's hard for them to be sure that almost anything that they're telling people really is reliably the story of sleep. It's all good stories with a little bit of data but when you get down to something like claiming that well people dream 30% of the night how do you really know? I think people can dream outside REM sleep which was thought previously to be the benchmark for when you were dreaming. And so we don't