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Here’s some really funny pranks for people sleeping in Japan…

Check out the blood puddle pillows that make you look like you just smashed your head into the ground.

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Want to sleep better? Wear a sleep jammie pant like the one above. As soon as you get home, try to change into something comfortable like a jammie. This will relax you more and make you sleep better.

For bloggers: Yes, it helps to blog in your underwear. My best way is to wake up and go straight to my computer to blog about something right away in my boxers before all my creative energies are swept away by my clothes…

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Here’s some news that might help people live 24-hours straight without sleep! That might be a problem since no one will have to come see Sleepzine to see sleep related stuff… Regardless, read all about the “Get ready for 24-hour living” article from Newscientist.

P.S. Yes, that’s me yawning, probably too much blogging…

Yves is talking about modafinil, a stimulant that since its launch seven years ago has acquired a near-mythical reputation for wiring you awake without the jitters, euphoria and eventual crash that come after caffeine or amphetamines. Yves has been popping modafinil on and off for the past three years and says it is “tremendously useful”. “I find I can be very productive at work,” he says. “I’m more organised and more motivated. And it means I can go out partying on a Friday night and still go skiing early on Saturday morning.”

Modafinil is just the first of a wave of new lifestyle drugs that promise to do for sleep what the contraceptive pill did for sex - unshackle it from nature. Since time immemorial, humans have structured their lives around sleep. In the near future, we will, for the first time, be able to significantly structure the way we sleep to suit our lifestyles.

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It’s probably true that getting enough sleep does help you think better and your brain probably thinks for you while you are sleeping. Here’s an interesting article about sleep and how your brain is still working while you are dozing off.

Dozens of intriguing studies over the past several years show clearly
that your brain is active—very active—during sleep. (Reference 1-7) It’s busy doing something miraculous, something that we can’t even come close to explaining.

Basically, your brain goes on automatic pilot. Without your being aware of it, something inside your head comes alive and starts mulling over all the things you learned that day. It sorts through them, organizes them, considers them, calculates them, decides what’s important and what’s not.

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