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Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India
Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India

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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

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Denise Levertov on Making Art Amid Chaos and the Artist’s Task to Awaken Society’s Sleepers
Denise Levertov on Making Art Amid Chaos and the Artist’s Task to Awaken Society’s Sleepers

“I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.”

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Tell Me What to Dream About: An Illustrated Ode to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Tell Me What to Dream About: An Illustrated Ode to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

Because who doesn’t want to be eating teeny-tiny waffles surrounded by teeny-tiny animals?

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What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works
What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works

How a neurological nightmare illuminates the wondrous workings of the brain-body connection.

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Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity
Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity

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Sleep Demons: Bill Hayes on REM, the Poetics of Yawns, and Maurice Sendak’s Antidote to Insomnia
Sleep Demons: Bill Hayes on REM, the Poetics of Yawns, and Maurice Sendak’s Antidote to Insomnia

“Sleep acts … more like an emotion than a bodily function. As with desire, it resists pursuit. Sleep must come find you.”

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The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do
The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do

What your brain’s chemical lullaby has to do with how screens are making you perennially tired.

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Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

“Something nameless hums us into sleep… We feel dreamed by someone else, a sleeping counterpart…”

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Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized
Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized

The early bird gets the Pulitzer … sort of.

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