- Whats going on in your brain while you sleep that makes sleep so important? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5i8o8e/whats_going_on_in_your_brain_while_you_sleep_that/ 14 comments askscience
- Your call is important to us. Please stay awake (follow up to the sleeping Comcast employee) http://news.com.com/your+call+is+important+to+us.+please+stay+awake/2100-1038_3-6087747.html?tag=nefd.top 3 comments reddit.com
- Charlie Brooker: Sleep is underrated - According to experts, it is as important to your health as exercise, nutrition and not being set on fire http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/26/charlie-brooker-sleeping-lessons 63 comments worldnews
- WatchOS 9.4 will finally bring the important change that „wake-up alarms are no longer silenced with cover to mute gesture to avoid accidental cancellations during sleep“ https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/21/watchos-9-4-features-apple-watch/ 118 comments apple
- Sleep may be just as important to heart health as diet and physical activity, research finds https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/health/sleep-heart-health-wellness/index.html 14 comments health
- SOLUTION TO THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT AND THE SLEEPING BEAUTY PROBLEM - The Importance of Perspective Reasoning https://www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com/perspective-consistency-and-the-solution-to-the-doomsday-argument-and-the-sleeping-beauty-problem/ 3 comments philosophy
- Resistance exercise may be superior to aerobic exercise for getting better sleep: Resistance exercise may be superior to aerobic exercise as a way to get better sleep, and sleep is important for cardiovascular health, according to new study. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944460 20 comments science
- A look at Lebron's daily routine: "Sleep is the most important thing when it comes to recovery." https://www.balancethegrind.com.au/daily-routines/lebron-james-daily-routine/ 26 comments nba
- Giroud on his failure to score at World Cup - "My 0 goals doesn't stop me from sleeping. In street people tell me: even if you haven't scored, you have been important. We might not have been world champions if I scored. Statistics can be used for anything & everything. I was decisive in another way" https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/i-was-decisive-another-way-giroud-defends-goalless-world-cup 293 comments soccer
- 'Western society is chronically sleep deprived': the importance of the body's clock - The 2017 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded for the discovery of how our circadian rhythms are controlled. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/06/western-society-is-chronically-sleep-deprived-the-importance-of-the-bodys-clock 682 comments worldnews
- New findings suggest that sleep plays a crucial role in flagging and storing important memories. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/?8dpc 3 comments reddit.com
- Best podcast I’ve heard on the importance of sleep and being productive. Episode 1109 on Joe Rogans podcast. Matthew Walker. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?mt=2&i=1000409857303 17 comments productivity
- TIL Some of the important decisions in WW2 could not be made because Hitler was sleeping (and he liked to sleep uptill noon). On D-Day invasion, the german officers couldn't get further command from Hitler, because of strict orders not to wake him up for any reason. https://www.history.com/news/d-day-hitler-germany-defenses-miscalculations 7 comments nottheonion
- Psychologists are trying to figure out why we don’t go to sleep (even when we want to) - As bedtime approaches, it’s likely that both biology and self-discipline are important players in your struggle to turn in. https://www.popsci.com/why-you-stay-up-too-late 9 comments science
- The frontal lobe remains active during sleep to filter sounds based on importance, hence your ability to wake up for an alarm, even when a movie or music is playing. (sciencedaily.com) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/04/980430044534.htm 4 comments science
- The most important race you don't know about yet --- There's a sleeping giant in Texas politics that could help Democrats beat Rick Perry, the "Marlboro Man" governor http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/05/texas_perry_white 5 comments politics
- If pulling an all-nighter, don't follow with an important decision, suggests a new brain imaging study. Researchers found a 24-hour period of sleep deprivation significantly impacted individuals' decision-making processes by dampening neural responses to the outcomes of their choices. https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/media/news-all/pulling-all-nighter-dont-follow-important-decision 35 comments science
- Meeting your daily step goal really does work to prevent important illnesses. Taking more than 8,200 steps a day – the equivalent of walking around four miles – was found to protect against the likes of obesity, sleep apnoea, high blood pressure and major depressive disorder https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02012-w 112 comments science
- Study identifies new links between REM sleep disturbances and drug relapse: it is important to pay attention to REM sleep improvement, complementary to current practice focusing on non-REM sleep interventions, and melanin-concentrating hormone neurons are central to REM sleep regulation https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/study-identifies-new-links-between-rem-sleep-disturbances-and-drug-relapse 20 comments science
- The brain's ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer's disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to new research. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits and opens a path to potential Alzheimer's therapies. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1009994 15 comments science
- Social connectedness, sleep, and physical activity associated with better mental health among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. More screen time activities, including social media , as well as witnessing racism in relation to the coronavirus, emerged as important predictors for negative affect. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/social-connectedness-sleep-physical-activity-associated-better-mental-health-among-youth-during-covid-19-pandemic 7 comments science
- New longitudinal research has been shown that sleep is even more important from ages 14-21 than previously understood. It has also been noted than sleep deprivation is one of the main catalysts for exacerbation of mental illnesses. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210305-why-teenage-sleep-is-so-important-for-mental-health 304 comments science
- [BETA TESTERS WANTED] Stressed? Anxious? Trouble sleeping? Do you love nature? Want to calm down, feel better, and relax? Sky Tripping Meditations (iOS/tvOS) helps you catch a breath. Join our beta team, and access valuable tools. Help shape an important mental wellness tool. Link in comments. https://testflight.apple.com/join/h9am3psf 7 comments apple
- Report: Coronavirus infected scores of children and staff at Georgia sleep-away camp | The finding that children 'might play an important role in transmission’ is likely to fuel debates about whether to reopen schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/31/georgia-children-covid-outbreak 44 comments politics
- Two separate studies suggest that exercise, a good night’s sleep, and a “cognitively active” lifestyle could be far more important than we realized in resisting dementia. Patients (n=105) who remained physically and cognitively active had 55 percent slower rates of cognitive decline. https://www.inverse.com/article/62173-preventative-measures-dementia-study 9 comments science
- A lack of sleep may lead to feelings of anxiety, even among healthy people, suggests a new study (n=172), which found that “deep” or slow-wave sleep is important because slow-wave brain oscillations offer an “ameliorating, anxiolytic benefit” on brain networks associated with emotional regulation. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/11/21/a-lack-of-sleep-causes-anxiety-but-dont-worry-about-it/ 42 comments science
- New research shows for the first time that important immune cells called microglia - which play an important role in reorganizing the connections between nerve cells, fighting infections, and repairing damage - are primarily active while we sleep. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0514-0 3 comments science
- Sight is important but it is not the only role of the eye. Research has shown that the eye’s role in circadian rhythm entrainment which control sleep wake patterns, is greater than we previously believed. https://www.chronobiology.com/the-eyes-role-in-circadian-rhythm-entrainment/ 13 comments science
- Sleep may be a key reason why your personality traits play an important part in how long you are likely to live, suggests a new study (n=3,759) which found that certain personality characteristics are more likely to sleep too little, or too much, and these have known links with various health risks. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/01/researchers-identity-sleep-as-a-key-reason-why-personality-traits-predict-longevity/ 4 comments science
- Having a regular, age-appropriate bedtime and getting sufficient sleep from early childhood may be important for healthy body weight in adolescence, according to new research. Those who had no bedtime routine at age 9 had shorter self-reported sleep duration and higher BMI at age 15. https://news.psu.edu/story/550559/2018/12/05/research/regular-bedtimes-and-sufficient-sleep-children-may-lead-healthier 115 comments science
- Women who have been sexually assaulted or harassed are more likely to suffer from poor sleep, anxiety, high blood pressure, and symptoms of depression. While the findings cant prove the events are behind the greater likelihood of such health problems, researchers say it highlights an important link. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/03/sexual-assault-victims-more-likely-to-have-anxiety-and-depression-study 366 comments science
- During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift. A study reveals that when we sleep, the neural connections that collect important information are strengthened and those created from irrelevant data are weakened until they get lost. http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/s0896-6273(18)30072-2 4 comments cogsci
- During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift: a study reveals that when mice sleep, the neural connections that collect important information are strengthened and those created from irrelevant data are weakened until they get lost. http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/s0896-6273(18)30072-2 5 comments science
- Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep - During deep sleep, older people have less coordination between two brain waves that are important to saving new memories, a team reports in the journal Neuron. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep 4 comments science
- Why Dreaming May Be Important for Health - A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that people who spent more time in rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep — the phase when dreaming occurs — had lower fear-related brain activity when they were given mild electric shocks the next day. http://time.com/4970767/rem-sleep-dreams-health/ 6 comments science
- Neuroscientists identified a neural circuit in the brain that regulates REM sleep, the phase of sleep when dreams occur. The new study also showed how REM sleep controls the physiology of non-REM sleep, the other major sleep phase commonly believed to be important for memory consolidation. http://www.medicaldaily.com/our-dream-state-rem-sleep-influences-memory-consolidation-during-other-sleep-phases-358498 102 comments science
- Can we learn to rid ourselves of our implicit biases regarding race and gender? A new study indicates that sleep may hold an important key to success in such efforts. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150528142903.htm 5 comments science
- The key to learning and memory in early life is a lengthy nap, say scientists. The scientists suggested the best time to learn may be just before sleep and emphasised the importance of reading at bedtime. Experts said sleep may be much more important in early years than at other ages. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30776745 19 comments science
- Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it: According to researchers at the University of Montreal, the regions of the brain below the cortex play an important role as we train our bodies' movements and, critically, they interact more effectively after a night of sleep. http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20140821-learning-to-play-the-piano-sleep-on-it.html 3 comments science
- Rape Is Not Natural: Even though I hate to even drive traffic to this guy’s blog, it's important to see just how dangerous his words are. What message does he send to impressionable young men? Go ahead and rape that girl you want to sleep with…it's natural. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/rape-natural/ 9 comments reddit.com