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• Five minutes after the end of the dream, 50% of the content is forgotten, and after ten minutes about 90% is forgotten. • Our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake. Blood flow to the brain increases during dreaming. • We usually spend more than two hours each night dreaming. We dream at least four to six times a night. • Babies in the womb dream. Babies born prematurely will spend 10% more time dreaming than full-term babies. • People never snore while they’re dreaming. People never sleepwalk when they’re dreaming. • It’s not uncommon for deaf people to use sign language in their sleep • Those born blind experience dreams involving things such as emotion, sound, and smell rather than sight. They dream without experiencing rapid eye movement. • Chronic use of barbiturates or alcohol can lead to nightmares, especially after their use is discontinued. The same sleeping pills that people take to regulate their sleep can cause profoundly disturbed sleep. • The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper. The paper needed to do an EEG of just one night’s sleep was about half a mile long. Today the information is digitized so no paper is needed. ANIMAL DREAMS • Nearly all mammals have true REM sleep. Dolphins and anteaters are the only mammals who do not have REM sleep. However, with dolphins, one half of the brain will show a typical sleep EEG, while the other half has a normal waking EEG. During the following sleep cycle, the brain halves will be reversed. Continued next page...
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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. IT’S A FACT • Vitamin B complex and St. John’s Wort have been shown to produce more vivid dreams. DREAMING UP AN ANSWER • Making lead shot for shotguns was difficult and time-consuming in the 1800s. Lead was rolled into sheets and the sheets were chopped into bits, or it was drawn into wire and cut into pieces. The resulting shot was expensive and of poor quality. James Watt, inventor of the first practical steam engine, had a recurring dream one week. In it, he seemed to be in a heavy rainstorm but instead of water drops, he was being pelted with tiny lead pellets that rolled around on the ground. Intrigued by the dream, Watt experimented by dropping molten lead from the top of a church tower into a water-filled moat. When he recovered the pellets he found that they were perfectly round. To this day, lead shot is made by the process Watt dreamed up. Continued next page...
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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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
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• 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.
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• A cow has sweat glands only in the nose. • So what happens when you pour salt on a slug? In simple terms, salt over-stimulates the slug’s skin glands, causing them to involuntarily secret large amounts of their bodily fluids, often to lethal extents. Salt causes them to basically sweat to death. The active ingredient in most commercial slug poisons is metaldehyde, which has the same effect on slugs as salt. Metaldehyde will last through rain storms without dissolving.
• 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 is it’s a brief test. However, severe impairment occurs if tests are sustained, repetitive tasks. • The accident rate in industry for night workers is almost twice the rate for those who work only in the day.
• Before the advent of firearms, natives of South America were well known for hunting with poisoned arrows. The toxin was obtained from the skin of a number of brightly colored frogs commonly known as dart frogs. The most notable species is the one named Phyllobates terribilis. The poison manufactured by this frog makes “strychnine look like table salt,” according to one researcher. When the frog is under stress, it secretes an oily white poison from glands in its skin. By tormenting a single frog, hunters could collect enough poison to dip about 50 arrows. The poison would remain deadly for about 6 months. • Found only in Central and South America, dart frogs are one of the most poisonous animals known to man. Just one frog can produce enough poison to kill 20,000 mice. It takes just .006 of an ounce to kill a grown man. A single golden dart-poison frog contains enough poison 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.
• 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.
• Shift workers are 2 to 5 times more likely to fall asleep on the job than employees with regular, daytime hours. • Lab animals subjected to a six hour phase shift of their light/dark cycle every week (which corresponds to a rotating shift system) showed a 20% reduction of life expectancy.
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re 3 kinds of people in this world….those an count and those who can’t. 1. What name was given to the 1959 Cadillac driven by the Ghostbusters? A dog with three legs walks into a saloon in 2. What three inalienable rights are mentioned in the Old West. He hobbles up to the bar and the U.S. Declaration of Independence? MOMENTS IN TIME announces: 3. Name Columbus’ three vessels that sailed The to the History Channel “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw.” New World in 1492. ● On Dec. 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese ● On Dec. 10, 1901, the first Nobel Prizes 4. Name the three good fairies in Disney’s 1959 warplanes attack the U.S. naval base at are awarded in film Stockholm, Sleeping Beauty. Sweden, as Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than Alfred Nobel, the 5. WhatSwedish are the occupationsinventor the Three Men inof a 2,400 naval and military personnel. The dynamite, had directed in his will. It is Tub?
ame Peter Rabbit’s three siblings.that he did so out of moral regret believed hat animals attempted overto cross thea increasingly lethal uses of his ge guarded by a inventions troll? in war.
U.S. declared war against Japan the following day.
● On Dec. 12, 1980, American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays $5 million ● On Dec. 9, 1921, General Motors at auction for a notebook containing engineers discover that leaded gas writings by Leonardo da Vinci. In 1994, “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous reduces “knock” in auto engines, adventures.” Alexandre Dumas, The the book was sold to Bill Gates, founder eliminating the pinging sounds. Ethyl ASRTOCPITRE Three Musketeers of Microsoft, for $30.8 million. Gates has alcohol also worked, and it was cheap since loaned the manuscript to a number with three horns -- however, anyone with an ordinary still A dinosaur Scrambled Word Answer: of museums for public display. could make it, which meant that GM could not patent it or profit from it.
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1. 1.Young Ectomobilepeople dream more than older people. 2. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 2. 3.Women dream more than men. The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria 3. 4.Intelligent people dream more Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather than non-intelligent people. 5. Butcher, baker, and candlestick maker 4. Non-smokers dream more than smokers. Differences: 1. Jewelry rack is smaller. 2. List is missing. 5. Infants spend about half of their 3. Feathers are missing. 4. Pendant is missing. sleep in the REM, whereas 5. Skirt is different. 6. Sign is different. adults only 20%.
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