dasha

my compannion and i were reading the economist and an article regarding dream sequences struck our attention. the article primarily explained the relevance of non REM sleep worked in symbiosis with retaining knowledge. based on growing dendrites(those little things at either end of synapses) that are reduced during certain patterns of sleep. they have been testing sleep deprivation on fruit flies and found that the "mutant" flies were in fact not learning anything. their hopes are to derive a way of maintaining these "dendrites," thus creating a way to control the intellegence of society...Additionally, being a smarter more productive society, with a lower life expectancy.