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Sleep is essential for brain functionality and overall health but understanding how sleep delivers its beneficial effects remains largely unknown. Sleep researchers are exploring new and unbiased approaches that can take sleep to a systems level. In one such approach, referred to as 'systems genetics', inferences about biological phenomena can be made by linking together several levels of information from DNA to phenotype via gene expression, proteins and metabolism at the level of a population. Systems genetics offers a global and interconnected view of biological phenomena and is therefore considered critical towards predicting disease susceptibility.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180809141231.htm
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Sunday August 12 2018, @03:18PM (2 children)
I've done CADCAM in my sleep. Then I realized I was dreaming, and kept trying to find a way to save the file such that I would be able to access it in the waking world. When I got to work I had to start over from scratch.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @08:06PM
I once pulled of an improbable speed run in Quake, having binged the game for days on end before finally going to sleep. The dream's visuals were perfectly matching their IRL template of the epoch, sparsely textured polygon graphics rendered on a CRT in 800x600. In my dream, there was no doubt in my mind that this is how the real world was supposed to look.
I never got into speed runs IRL, not my cup of tea.
(Score: 2, Funny) by anubi on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:52AM
Yup... I remember having this dream about taking two or more microphones, digitizing their output simultaneously, storing the whole shebang in memory, at least 2048 samples from each... then running goertzels on the resulting data, from which I can beamform as the phase of each frequency comes out ... and by considering both phase and frequency, I can determine the direction of where the sound source that emanated the noise is - with an Arduino.
I even had the schematics of the thing. Then I woke up. Nothing in my hand but my pillowcase.
I still wanna build that thing.
Something go bump in the middle of the night? I'll know where! Unless its a damm cricket. Won't point out crickets because they mostly emit one frequency, and I've gotta be tracking something that emits a lot more broadband noise.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]