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Science of Sleep

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Sleep Cycle

The sleep cycle lasts about 90 minutes. You go through it again and again, with the period o dreaming getting longer and longer. Can you explain why some people are mourning people? It disgusts me. I could explain that, but i wouldn't want to. Because on the exponn an oikid is sitting opposite thee's thees. And then other things have been shuffled in by evolution afterwards,. The then they od reinforce. So those essential functions like memory consolidation would feedback and say, ye, there's a really good reason why you need that period of immobility so that you can process information without being overloaded by all the new stuff coming insirichard.

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