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1 posted on 07/14/2008 3:42:05 AM PDT by Schnucki

If sleeping soundly boosts memory then why is it so difficult to remember dreams?

2 posted on 07/14/2008 3:44:36 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)

Sleeping soundly 'boosts memory'

Does it matter that I need a six-pack to be able to sleep soundly?

3 posted on 07/14/2008 3:51:02 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)

How does one go about cashing in on these studies? I knew this 30 years ago.

4 posted on 07/14/2008 4:00:28 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko

These results are PROFOUND!

Upcoming studies:

Sleeping soundly significantly reduces tiredness.

Sleeping soundly increases risk of snoring.

5 posted on 07/14/2008 4:02:25 AM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)

To: Schnucki; All

Another bit of bogus science. The alternative hypothesis, which they ignored, is that if you are sick, maybe the illness affects both sleeping and memory.

There are fact suggesting that my alternative hypothesis is at least as good as their jump to conclusion that you just need to sleep better. One of the tests folks might get for chronic Lyme is a SPECT scan to show whether or how much the bugs have invaded the brain.

I really hate it when supposed scientists jump to a blame-the-patient idea, in this case the patient should just take care to sleep better; especially when so many auto-immune diseases (currently in epidemic status) have associated sleep disorders.

Keeping a healthy person from sleeping might have the same result as encountered by somebody with lupus, or the pains of arthritis. But, the fix is no where near as easy.

6 posted on 07/14/2008 8:19:09 AM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)

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