Transition from Waking Life to Sleep
Neuroscientists are studying the boundary between sleep and awareness, discovering various liminal states that help explain sleep disorders resulting from faulty sleep transitions.
Sleep is a crucial state that refreshes the brain and body, repairing tissues, clearing toxins, and solidifying memories, although its mechanisms are not fully understood.
You’ve started your journey into sleep, the cryptic state that you and most other animals need in some form to survive.
As one drifts into sleep, the mind can create vivid scenes, such as a cat sniffing cheese, despite being unrelated to reality.
Reseach on sleep transitions can help understand sleep disorders that occur when these transitions go wrong.
Author's summary: Neuroscientists study sleep transitions to understand disorders.
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