How to Deprive a Rat of Sleep

The non verbal part of the brain is looking for patterns and anomalies in the world, things that don't fit well with the current way of conceptualizing the world. And those are things you haven't mastered, right? So they don't fit well into your conceptioalization of the world by definition. We know if you deprive people of dreams, that they go insane very rapidly. But anyways, the dream does seem to be an update mechanism. It's like someh as trying to hammer on the door that needs to be let in....