Why do we sleep? What are some functions of sleep and dreaming? Be sure to include specific examples to support your points. Describe a dream, identifying both the manifest content and possible latent content of the dream. Why is sleep important psychologically and biologically?
打个比方就好比每天晚上你的电脑或者手机要进入维护模式,进行磁盘碎片整理(memory 的转移和索引),安装固件更新漏洞补丁(增强免疫系统功能)之类的,喝醉昏睡过去大概就等价于强行拔掉电源——虽然两种情况电脑都黑屏了,但是第二天重启的时候立刻就会知道区别很大。而熬夜晚睡则相当于长期运行内存效率低下、没有补丁的“裸奔...
Well, of course, we're primed by science fiction and pop culture to really want to personify these things, but it goes a little bit deeper than that. It turns out that we're biologically hardwired to project intent and life onto any movement in our physical space that seems autonomous ...
Biologically speaking, cutting the skin releases “feel good” chemicals, such as endorphins. These chemicals give the cutter a sense of relief. They feel better for a time, but this chemical release wears off. Oftenpeople that self-harmneed to cut deeper and cut more frequently to experience ...
We seem to be biologicallypredisposed toward kindness. Yet, as our cognitive capacities and our social world grow more complex in the process of development, our behavior, kind and otherwise, becomes increasingly conditioned on both internal and environmental circumstances.For example, with ...
This has very little to do with politics. What we are looking at is an act of self-harm. What really interests me here is the mirror, in which everything appears back to front. In very different circumstances, Michael Taussig describes a ‘colonial mirror of production.’ During the ...
Do we focus on kids never trying drugs, or on preparing them to stay away from “abuse” rather than “use”? My question about addiction is perhaps most what I see as a non-drug-addict (as you rightly elucidate, there are plenty of my behaviors that mirror those of addicts, but I ...
"The aversion to that word [choice] in our community stems from belief that if we can't prove that our gayness is biologically determined, then we won't have grounds to demand equality," said Ambrosino. "I think this fear needs to be...
Depression Reveals the Truth: We Live in the Abyss Posted on November 17, 2014 by wallowinmaya [Epistemic status: Just poetry, written in a nihilistic mood. Don’t take it so seriously.] When you are in the midst of a deep depression it’s impossible to do anything other than lie in...
That’s why we are all here, this is a planet that runs of ’cause and effect’ .. what we do, think and feel has an affect on what happens to us. We are self-creating entities. I smile because I am very good at self-creating my own problems. Gotta smile. In the meantime,...