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Kat Duff

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in Minneapolis, MN, The United States

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http://www.thesecretlifeofsleep.com

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Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy

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James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Barry Lopez, Virginia Woolf, Marilynne Rob ...more

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Kat Duff is author of "The Alchemy of Illness" and the forthcoming "The Secret Life of Sleep." She lives in northern New Mexico, and works as a counselor and child forensic interviewer. Duff has been a fan of the essay form ever since reading Joan Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" in high school. ...more

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Sleep Cycle May Originate in Ancient Oceans

What do we humans have in common with ocean plankton – specifically the marine ragworm, Platynereis dumerilii? Melatonin. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory recently discovered that melatonin, the hormone that regulates our sleep and waking cycles, also regulates the rising and falling of Platynereis larvae. (1) The Platynereis dumerilii are centipede-like worms that produce Read more of this blog post »

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	The Secret Life of Sleep 3.43 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alchemy of Illness 4.38 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Heart of Healing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“we experience dream events as real in the moment. Neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás went so far as to state that dreaming “is consciousness itself in the absence of input from the senses.”3”
― Kat Duff, The Secret Life of Sleep

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“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.”
― Kat Duff, The Secret Life of Sleep

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“Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.”
― Kat Duff

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