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Learning Challenge: Sleep Science

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https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/12/02/lucid-dreaming/ I'm typically a sucker for science podcasts and articles especially those medical or chemistry related. Sleep studies are such a fascinating mystery that I would love to participate in for research both on myself and in general.  My father struggles with insomnia and sleep apnea, of which I can't be sure he's had all of his life of developed it later in life. I definitely have sleeping problems. I can't be sure it's one thing exactly or if it's just because I have the typical college student sleeping schedule. The article I read was a transcript of an interview with sleep researcher from Harvard, Berkeley, Northwestern, and Mayo Clinic (we got the big boys out here). The discussion was quite lengthy to read but I was completely immersed in the topic range. The interview caught my eye because it presents how memory if a function of sleep. However, once you dive in, the experts touch upon a wide ...