Archive Gallery: The Science of Sleep
No Rest for the Weary Tips for more restful slumber, decoding how we dream and just a dash of pseudoscience We spend a third of our days asleep, and a good portion of the rest of them talking about it. We had a good night's sleep, a bad night's sleep, we stayed up too late, got up too early, now we're exhausted, last night we wrote a perfectly coherent essay in our sleep... well, maybe not. But Dr. John D. Quackenbos did, or so says a Popular Science article from 1919. Click here to enter the gallery And in true archive gallery form, there's more weirdness where that came from. Putting people into a "frozen sleep" to cure cancer, a bizarre fix for insomnia, a soundproof sleep booth and more. We've also sprinkled in some interesting facts about the effects of sleep deprivation, and what happens when you dream. Enter the gallery...