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The Brain's Secret For Sleeping Like a Log

Posted by Soulskill on from the light-exercise-and-a-fifth-of-rum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why can some people sleep through anything? According to this article in Wired Science, some lucky people have an extra helping of a certain kind of brain static that essentially blocks out noise and other stimuli. These 'sleep spindles' can be detected via EEG, and show up as brief bursts of high-frequency brain waves; some people naturally produce more than others. The researchers say these spindles are produced by the thalamus, the brain region that acts as a waystation for sensory information. If the thalamus is busy producing sleep spindles, sensory information can't make it through the thalamus to the cortex, the perceptive part of the brain."

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  1. Can't sleep by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clown will eat me.

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  2. Re:Not so awesome as you might think by Emonair · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two words for your wife... cattle prod

  3. Re:I used to have trouble falling asleep by daveime · · Score: 4, Funny

    And after carefully reading the instructions, and inflating to the correct PSI, they lived happily ever after. The End.

  4. Try not by laron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do. Or do not. There is no try.

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  5. Re:I used to have trouble falling asleep by YourExperiment · · Score: 3, Funny

    tl;fa

  6. Oh... God help me by RulerOf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do. Or do not. There is no try.

    On behalf of everyone here at Slashdot, I would like to personally thank you for putting Yoda and masturbation into one line of text.

    This awful image in my head.. MAKE IT STOP! :-(

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