Articles for tag: importance of sleep, neuroscience of sleep, sleep psychology, Sleep science

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The Enigma of Sleep: Why We Need It and What Happens When We Don’t

Suhail Ahmed

  Every night, nearly every human on Earth willingly surrenders consciousness, becoming temporarily paralyzed, hallucinating vividly, and remembering only fragments of the experience. For something so strange, sleep is astonishingly non-negotiable: miss enough of it, and the body and mind begin to fall apart in ways that are as dramatic as they are invisible. Over ...