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Do We Dream All the Time?

April 16, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

What are dreams for?  Are they garbage processing by the brain, as Francis Crick declared?  The royal road to the unconscious, as some Freudians believe?  Or are they something more interesting, an intermediary between conscious and unconscious biological intelligence? Recent research out of one of the more innovative sleep labs in the world, guided by […]

Sleep For Sex

April 9, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Better Living Through Sleep Sleep and sex regenerate people. They are made for and need each other. Humans cannot survive lacking the internal rebuilding of sleep; we cannot survive without sex. Less appreciated is how sleep and sex enhance the pleasure and creativity of both. Among the thousands of ways that happens, here are five […]

Amazing Ambien (3/19/12)

March 19, 2013 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

The Rock Star Drug Steve Tyler of Aeorosmith took it to sooth an aching foot.  He fell off the stage.  One Calgary man claimed it made him take a bottle of vodka out of the fridge, down it and drive directly into other cars – all while he was asleep!  My patients have woken with […]

“Awake” – In dreams begin realities (3/2/12)

March 2, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

La Vida Es Sueno Is life a dream? Or do realities begin in dreams? “Awake,” NBC’s new drama, premiered on  March 1st, 2012. One night police detective Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, survives a horrific car wreck—but not his family. He becomes conscious and finds he’s living two distinct realities. In one his son […]

Sleeping with art – is the museum the new cool place to sleep? (10/31/11)

October 31, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Should I Sleep at the Museum? Even without beautiful dreams, sleep can be a thoroughly aesthetic experience. Ever since two children got locked in the Metropolitan in the E. L. Konigburg’s “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basel E. Frankweiler” (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Nights-at-the-Museums.html#ixzz1c00VVRtc), people other than guards and thieves have been spending overnight in museums.  Most have […]

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