Composing New Songs Do you sing in your sleep? Or just write music as you slumber? Barry Manilow does. Often he hears songs for the first time in his dreams. Keeping a recorder next to his bed, some of his biggest hits, like “One Voice,” appeared to him fully fleshed out as soon as he […]
Even zombies need to sleep (7/22/11)
The Eternal Need to Rest Rob Zombie doesn’t want to sleep again. Ever. The creator of “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto,” front man of the noise rock band “White Zombie,” and director of “House of a 1000 Corpses”, its sequels “the Devil’s Rejects”, no less than two Halloween movie sequels and the classic Grindhouse […]
Sleep in a can (7/11/11)
Why Do We Have Relaxation Drinks? Americans are pretty wired up these days, and getting enough sleep is tough. Close to 40% complain of insomnia making them too tired to fully function (http://www.jhsph.edu/healthymonday/2011/03072011_sleep.html), perhaps 5-10% of the population is presently suffering significant depression (http://userpages.umbc.edu/~marcotte/depression%20prevalence.pdf), and many millions more complain of high levels of anxiety – […]
New ways to improve sports performance – without drugs (7/8/11)
Can Active Rest Improve Sports Performance? What’s the difference between the best athletes in the world and the next best? Fame, glory, fortune – and inches, millimeters, and milliseconds. With so many superb athletes so closely matched anything that gives you an edge can help – and when it comes to some championships, that […]
Do sleeping pills work by making us forget? (7/6/11)
How Do Sleeping Pills Work? Insomnia provokes many controversies. One of the more heated at the recent Sleep Research Meeting in Minneapolis was about why sleeping pills work – do they induce sleep? Or do they just make people forget they were awake during the night? Lots of people, including Mike Perlis, now at the […]