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![]() It is not clear how this device affects the sleep patterns of the user. In most biofeedback devices, the user interacts in a more conscious level with the machine.
I foresee a rewriting of the Christmas classic:
...mama in her kerchief, and I in my Napcap
Biofeedback training seeks to familiarize yourself with patterns in your body's activity that are not normally conscious. A thermometer is a simple example of getting information about your body state that you cannot access easily yourself. Biofeedback lets you learn to change body states; without the feedback, you would be operating blind, that is, without true information.
The napcap, however, seems to be able to impose a sleep rhythm on the user.
The comment about the reason for sleep is interesting, too: there is a lot of discussion about why animals sleep, and whether or not prey animals sleep less than predators. There is a well-established relationship between daily sleep and size; small mammals like bats sleep about 20 hours per day, chipmunks 15 hours. Elephants sleep about 4 hours per day; pilot whales about 5. See The Phylogeny of Sleep for an interesting discussion. See also the technovelgy item cold sleep from novels by Robert Heinlein. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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