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• The opossum dreams more than man. A newborn kitten, puppy, rat, or hamster experiences only REM sleep, while a newborn guinea pig (which is much more developed at birth) has almost no REM sleep at all. Some birds and even fish have been shown to have the rapid eye movement characteristic of the state of dreaming. • In one experiment, monkeys were strapped into chairs in front of a video screen and taught that they must repeatedly press a bar in front of them whenever a certain image appeared on the screen. If they didn’t, they would receive a shock. After several days of intense training which included sleep deprivation, the monkeys were allowed to fall asleep, still strapped to the chair, while their sleep was monitored. Not long after entering the REM dream stage, the animals began rapidly pressing the bar in front of them as they dreamed about the video screen.

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• Elias Howe was trying to invent a sewing machine, but he was having a major problem. He couldn’t figure out where to locate the eye of the needle. The eye of the needle is always located in the end of the needle furthest from the point, but all his designs failed to work properly. He was at wits end and rapidly running out of money when he fell asleep one night and had a strange dream. In the dream he was being led to Did you hear about the family who got stuck his execution. The king had ordered him killed on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? because he could not design a sewing machine. He Apparently, their vehicle would neverwas surrounded by guards who were all never land. armed with spears that were pierced at the head. When Howe awoke, he realized this was the solution to the problem. In short order he had invented a sewing machine whose needle had the eye at the head, now the universal design. • Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a story called “The Traveling Companion” and sent it to an editor. The editor rejected the story saying, “This is an ingenious piece of work but your plot is weak.” Stevenson was at a loss to figure out how to improve the tale. Then one night he re-read the story before falling asleep. In a dream he had that night, he saw his story being acted R out, Lwith O Oa different T D O plot A Ntwist. W When M he awoke, he wrote down the details of the dream Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space and then re-worked the story. The result was Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” • Rudyard Kipling once had a dream in which he saw himself at a formal function in a big hall with rough stone flooring. There was a crowd of people around him and his view was obstructed by a fat man in front of him. A man touched him 1. the sleeve Disneyland on and said,Paris “May I have a word with 2. Frontierland you?” Then he awoke. It was six weeks later 3. thisThe Monorail when dream was fulfilled down to the last detail Kipling attended an official gather4. when Space Mountain ing. the man who wanted to speak to 5. Although Fantasyland him had nothing consequential to say, Kipling was amazed at the fulfillment of the dream.

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• The skin on the back of a cat’s neck is five times thicker than it is on their hind feet. • Dolphins don’t have waterproof skin. Instead, it is actually waterlogged, cutting down on friction as the dolphin swims. • In the 1700s, trappers could get 50 cents for a doe skin, but a dollar for a buck skin. That’s why a dollar is now called a “buck.” • Ernest Ebbitson of England spent 30 years trying to breed a frog with transparent skin in order to avoid the destruction of so many frogs that are dissected each year in biology classes. • When First Lady Jackie Kennedy wore a Somali leopard skin coat in 1962, the price of leopard coats tripled from $6,000 to $18,000 and five years later Somali leopards were declared an endangered species. • Earthworms have no lungs. They breathe through their skin. • The skin of a shark is not covered with scales, but with denticles, which are akin to tiny teeth. A shark can do much damage just by brushing against a human. Leather made from the skin of a tiger shark has up to 10 times the tensile strength of ox hide. • The fur of a polar bear is actually transparent, which reflects light and appears white in the same way that snow is clear but looks white. The skin of a polar bear is pure black in order to absorb heat from the sun which is transferred by the clear fur. • Pig skin has no sweat glands. To keep cool, pigs prefer a dip in cool, clean water. If that is not available, mud will do. Mud also protects them from lice and other parasites. Pigs prefer clean pens, and will always relieve themselves in the corner furthest from where they sleep. • A cow has sweat glands only in the nose. (continued on page 6)

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(cont’d) to kill 2,200 people. There is still no known antidote. Scientists are studying the substance, hoping to discover clues to cystic fibrosis and other neurological diseases. Extracts may one day prove useful as heart stimulants or anesthetics. One hurdle standing in the way of research is the fact that dart frogs caught in the wild and held in captivity gradually lose their toxicity because they are not eating the insects (such as ants) from which they gather alkaloids that they transform into poison.

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• Half the population of the U.S. suffers from insomnia at some point. Insomnia is almost twice as common in women as it is in men. • When deprived of sleep, senses diminish, reactions slow, motor speed decreases, and the memory fails. The body temperature drops, and hallucinations and/or psychosis and paranoia may result if sleeplessness is continued. The body will be completely restored to normal after a period of sleep. • In sleep-deprived people, it is most difficult for them to stay awake between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. • In a sleep lab, volunteers who got eight hours of sound sleep were tested for reaction time on a number of different tasks. The following night they were shorted on their sleep. When the tests were repeated, it was not surprising that their marks fell as their reaction time increased. Following a normal 8-hour sleep, reaction times returned to normal. The following night, they were allowed to sleep more than 8 hours. Researchers were surprised to see that their reaction time decreased after over-sleeping just as it had when they under-slept. • In a sleep deprivation study, subjects were asked to sit in front of a computer screen and press a button each time the letter X appeared. At the beginning of the experiment, the subjects performed flawlessly. But after two nights without sleep, only one in four Xs were noted, and the button was often pressed for the wrong letters. This is due to microsleep sessions, in which the body falls asleep for mere seconds. • Sleep-deprived subjects can perform almost any test perfectly if it’s a brief test. However, severe impairment occurs if tests are sustained, repetitive tasks. (continued next page)

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