The Show Notes: Rabbit Hole of Research Episode 9: Sleep Studies and Dreams

Joe, Nick and Georgia talk sleep, Chianti & fava beans, brain rinsing, They Live, Inception, lucid dreaming, noisy ice, John Wick’s dreams, Nick’s research, Jacob’s ladder, sleep paralysis, and more.

Episode 9 – Sleep Studies

This has no particular format; it’s just correcting or updating anything in the show we didn’t get a chance to fully talk about or things we had on the tips of our tongues and couldn’t get out as we recorded. As always, feel free to comment, and we will address stuff in future shows! Enjoy. 

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Georgia Geis@atomicnumber14 https://www.instagram.com/atomic_number14/

*Both Joe and Georgia have notes below


Say hello and let us know:

Do you take naps?

Can you lucid dream?

Do you have a favorite Sleep or Dream inspired movie or novel?


What we drinking?

Joe- insufficient clearance — Sketchbook brewery

Nick- Matcha Martian —Bean Me Up Roastery

Georgia — Watermelon White Claw


Joe’s Show Notes:

oneirology

(own-I-rology) the scientific study of dreams.


Polysomnography

known as a sleep study, is a test used to diagnose sleep disorders.


Famous Sleep Studies

  1. The Sleepless Elite (2014)
  2. The “Fatal Familial Insomnia” Case Studies (1980s)
  3. The Randy Gardner Experiment (1960s): stayed awake for 264.4 hours (11 days and 24 minutes) as part of a science fair project
  4. The “Sleepless in San Diego” Study (2002)

Sleep paralysis


Sleep deprivation


Sleepwalking killer Scott Falater


Sleepwalker’ Acquitted of Murdering Mother-in-Law After 15-Mile Drive


Lucid Dreaming


Sleep is crucial


Mantis from the MCU


Hormones Makes us Sleepy

Circadian rhythms


Do Other Animals Dream


does lunar phases effect sleep?


Pain receptors in brain?


Staying active during brain surgery, playing instruments


They Live (1988)


“The computer says no”—Little Britain show


Sundowners syndrome


Marvel’s Sleepwalker Character

Marvel’s Nightmare Character


If you die in dream do you die in real life


Georgia’s Tid Bits

Washing Brain During Sleep 

Nightmare On Elm Street: True Story

Jacob’s Ladder:Dreams and Consciousness,Hollywood-Style by Kelly Bulkley

Jacob’s Ladder- Movie

MIT in Fluid Interfaces

New device can control your dreams: Marketers try to hack the brain!

Taking the perfect nap by NPR


Print by Georgia Geis @atomic_number14

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