Atif Sayyed’s Reviews > Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams > Status Update

Learned about how lights affect our Superchiasmatic nucleus-Our 24 hour biologically coded cycle in our body. How alcohol affects the sleep and how REM sleep is degraded due to alcohol. How Caffeine affects Sleep.

Learned about Narcolepsy and the stages of Narcolepsy. narcolepsy has 3 stages 1) daytime sleepiness 2) cataplexy 3) sleep paralysis.

Read about Lucid Dreaming and what it is. Learned about some of the severe types of sleep disorders, one of which is named Sonambulism-which is also called Sleep Walking. Sleepwalking happens in deep NREM sleep as when you wake the person, he is not able to recall any dream. However, it is treatable and harmless. However after reading Kenneth Parks case in 1987 it gave me a chill.

Whats the purpose of our dream? Why we dream about a painful event but we do not feel the pain as we felt at the time of that event in the past? These interesting questions are been answered here.

How sleep improves Motor Skills has been explained by Matt Walker.

And How sleeping before a game increases the chance of winning the game and increased performance.

All of this Matt has explained with scientific facts. Stage 2 NREM sleep causes improved performance. and this sleep occurs in the last 2 hours of the morning (eg: between 5 am to 7 am if you sleep at 11 am).