Health
Discover the political factor that keeps you up at night
New discoveries by a research team from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) promise to create a new revolution in the treatment of insomnia.
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New technology
Humans have been able to communicate in dreams.
In an experiment conducted by neurotechnology developer REMspace, two volunteers successfully communicated in their dreams.
Health
What happens inside a sleepwalker's brain?
Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have taken the first step in exploring a rather complex question: What is happening inside the brain of a sleep…
Health
Intense nightmares can signal dangerous illnesses
Research shows that nightmares that are very intense and sometimes haunting even after waking up can signal the onset of chronic diseases.
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Can snoring people hear their own snoring?
Do people who snore in their sleep not hear their own snoring? Scientists have sought the answer.
Animal world
New research reveals the mystery of jumping spiders' dreams
The researchers discovered that jumping spiders, known for their unique hunting abilities, exhibit human-like REM sleep patterns.
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Why don't we fall off the bed while we sleep?
Some people think that when we sleep, we are completely unconscious and don't know what happens around us. But that is not entirely true.
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People know when to sleep?
The journal Nature published a new study showing that zebrafish sleeps like humans, thus deducing before human ancestors moved away from the marine environment, the slee…
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Explain why a dream of perspiration swells and shakes
Scientists at the University of Bern (Switzerland), when conducting tests on rodents, have determined that dreams are interrupted if the body temperature is too high or…
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This is the reason why we often do blankets when sleeping no matter how hot it is
Herding used to be a very expensive item in BC until the Middle Ages. But this day, the vast majority of us have at least one blanket for ourselves and
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This is how I feel when I'm under shadow and what science says about it
The first time I was overthrown was the winter of 2012. It was when my grandfather had just died, I moved to stay with her to partly relieve the pain.
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Revealing the great lie in the morning in the love story
Turns out, inspiring romantic scenes for movies and novels are just ... slashing.
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7 strange things about sleepwalking
Sleepiness is a phenomenon when a person suddenly wakes up and walks while still sleeping.
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The phenomenon of shadow under the scientific perspective
Certainly everyone once experienced in life feeling startled in the night, awake, feeling around but immobile. That phenomenon is called a shadow. So what is the cause o…
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Decode the shadow phenomenon
Mysterious phenomena like shadows have been explained in the perspective of science, while opening the way to treating sleep disorders.