Links: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

• An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play - New York Times
  sleep loss makes you more reckless, more emotionally fragile, less able to concentrate and almost certainly more vulnerable to infection.
  (tags: sleep insomnia health science)
• Sleep Drugs Found Only Mildly Effective, but Wildly Popular - New York Times
  Unsurprising : "While under the influence of most sleep medications, people have trouble forming memories. When they wake up, they may simply forget they had trouble sleeping."
  (tags: insomnia sleep health science drugs)

Comments

[Marco]

On sleep and $4.5 billion spent on it: "Your dreams miss you" is not a big thing to most people. So what? If I can only sleep. If we don't dream, we don't replenish our psyche with it's life blood. I'm a cyber friend of Lauren Cerand. We've visited your gallery a few times when in the city.