Hanging brain effect Mat: How is the rocking sleep sharpens the mind

must be Architecturally happen there is still some in the bedrooms, but as far as the construction of the Foundation on which we, humans, us beds for the night, there are now remarkable new concepts. One of them-the Rhythmic fall asleep and the rhythm of the night retain. The function of the ideal bed, so the hammock. However, the constancy and the endurance of the swing movement to be able to all the benefits of a rocking sleep, enjoy a decisive factor.

Joachim Müller-Jung

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the reward for The sleepers: it’s Not only easier to fall Asleep and less Waking up, even in sleep, the usual consolidation of memory benefits greatly from it. Determined that everything was now in a Swiss sleep laboratory. The universities of Geneva and Lausanne, the scientists have explored eight of ten volunteers and a variety of mice, the effects of moving sleep. The results of the two studies just published in the journal “Current Biology”. And, even if this relatively small number of study participants is not yet the whole extent of the rocking to sleep benefits can be determined, for example, whether people with severe sleep disorders benefit from the systematic brain confirm investigations in the sleep laboratory, however, what many people had already on their own body in the hammock or in the water bed: The rhythmic motion promotes sleep. And first of all to go to Sleep quickly.

brain waves are synchronized

the participants in The study were the attempt to be made to once bedded, the you – rocked – free-floating above the floor in a cycle time of a complete swing rash every four seconds in sleep. For comparison, they stayed in a second series of experiments, in the same beds, however, this time firmly standing on the ground.

Striking for the researchers, not only to the unique sleep effect. Also, the observation that the subjects woke up in the swing to sleep less, not surprised really. Even if the measured effect was amazingly clear and made it clear that the sensory rhythm stops-perception in sleep (what has been observed in experiments with music rhythms earlier) .