The Brain's Secret For Sleeping Like a Log

Posted by Soulskill on Monday August 9, 2010 @03:31PM 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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Can't sleep by PPH · 2010-08-09 16:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Clown will eat me.

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Re:Not so awesome as you might think by Emonair · 2010-08-09 17:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Two words for your wife... cattle prod
Re:I used to have trouble falling asleep by daveime · 2010-08-09 18:00 · Score: 4, Funny

And after carefully reading the instructions, and inflating to the correct PSI, they lived happily ever after. The End.
Oh... God help me by RulerOf · 2010-08-09 23:15 · 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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