Yahoo! News - Study: Sleep Essential for Creativity
For the first time, scientists say they have proved what creative minds have known all along: that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day, and that the right answer may come more easily after eight hours of rest. .... Scientists at the University of Luebeck found that volunteers taking a simple math test were three times more likely than sleep-deprived participants to figure out a hidden rule for converting the numbers into the right answer if they had eight hours of sleep. The findings appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
Remember this during crunch time...
If you're 6'1" then I'm 5'4":)
Karissa, I don't always take my own advice, which is one reason I keep posting the reminder!
Amy, I saw that as well! They measured people before going to bed, and then after waking up in the morning and they really were about an inch taller!
So does that mean I'm 6'1"?
:^)
YAWN! I like sleep:)
Here a little factoid...people about an inch taller after a good night's sleep. Our spines are squashed by the weight of gravity during the day. However, at night when we sleep we're no longer vertically under the force of gravity and so our spine expands. It's like an accordion! We're our tallest in the morning and then our backbones compress and we shrink about an inch by bedtime. I saw a this story on ABC's Nightly News a couple weeks ago.
Oh, the cultural thing... Reminds me of the jealousy I felt when I learned that the French get a mandatory vacation--it's in their laws somewhere. :0
Thank you, Dr. Jerz, for reminding me once again that sleep is an essential thing... you seem do remind us at least once a semester :^)
I've been seeing this report mentioned everywhere -- from the morning news on TV to the paper to the blogosphere. Everyone seems to need more sleep. We're a society -- why can't we figure out a way to stop killing ourselves over work and start relaxing more? I notice that the study was performed in Germany -- where they have vacations almost 1/3 of the year. Not so in our country, where you get two weeks if you're lucky. (I wonder if this cultural difference impacts their study?)