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Sleep, Dreams And The Night

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Sleep, Dreams And The Night

Why you dream, why you twitch, and what your brain does while you're gone.

7 episodes ~28 min

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01
The Game That Rewires Your Sleeping Brain
Playing Tetris for too long causes your brain to keep playing the game even after you close your eyes.
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02
The Color of Sound That Boosts Memory
Pink noise is the secret frequency that synchronizes your brain waves for a deeper, more restorative sleep.
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03
The Animal That Never Truly Goes to Sleep
Dolphins survive by shutting down only half of their brain at a time, keeping one eye open for sharks.
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04
The crop circles that appeared overnight
Some are hoaxes. Some are not.
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05
Your memory rewrites itself every time you remember
The more you recall something, the less accurate it gets.
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06
Why We Dream
After a century of sleep labs, MRI scans and theories, nobody knows what dreams are actually for.
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07
The Crimson Mirror That Turns Animals Into Stone
A Tanzanian lake with the pH of ammonia and temperatures reaching 140 degrees remains a graveyard for anything that misreads its glass-like surface.
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