Get ready to catch some Z’s as The Two Humans grab their blankies and pillows and head to the bedroom to see what’s so exhausting about sleep.

Episode 45—Sawing Logs and Hitting Hay: The Exhausting Labor of Sleep

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542

IG @introtoanthrowith2humans

Resources:

Akerstedt, Torbjorn

2006 Psychosocial Stress and Impaired Sleep. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment, & Health, December 2006, Vol. 32, No. 6 (December 2006), pp. 493-501.

Breus, Michael J.

2015 Why Do We Dream? Psychology Today, February 13, 2015, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleep-newzzz/201502/why-do-we-dream.

Cleveland Clinic

2024 Night Vision. Cleveland Clinic (website), my.clevelandclinic.org/health/ articles/24309-night-vision.

2024 Sleep. Cleveland Clinic (website), my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/12148-sleep-basics.

2024 Yawning. Cleveland Clinic (website), my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/yawning.

Drerup, Michelle

2022 Why Do We Dream? Cleveland Clinic (website), August 17, 2022, health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-we-dream.

Eagleman, David and Don Vaughn

2020 Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains. Time, December 29, 2020, time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/.

Ekirch, A. Roger

2005 At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK.

Gupta, Sharat and Shallu Mittal

2013 Yawning and Its Physiological Significance. International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research, 2013, January-June; 3(1), pp. 11-15.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

2024 The Science of Sleep: Understanding What Happens When You Sleep. Johns Hopkins Medicine (website), www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-science-of-sleep-understanding-what-happens-when-you-sleep.

Leschziner, Guy

2019 The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep. St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, NY.

McLain, Roberta

2023 Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally “See” the World upon Awakening. Scientific American, December 12, 2023, www.scientificamerican. com/article/why-do-we-dream-maybe-to-ensure-we-can-literally-see-the-world-upon-awakening.

Miller, Kenneth

2023 Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep. Hachette Books, New York, NY.

National Institutes of Health

2024 Why Is Sleep Important? National Institutes of Health (website), www.nhlbi.nih. gov/health/sleep/why-sleep-important#:~:text.

Provine, Robert R.

2005 Yawning: The Yawn Is Primal, Unstoppable, and Contagious, Revealing the Evolutionary and Neural Basis of Empathy and Unconscious Behavior. American Scientist, November-December 2005, Vol. 93, No. 6 (November-December 2005), pp. 532-539.

Quante, Mirja, Sara Mariani, Jia Weng, Catherine R. Marinac, et al.

2018 Zeitgebers and their Association with Rest-Activity Patterns. Chronobiology International, October 26, 2018, 36(2), pp. 203-213.

Reiss, Benjamin

2017 Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World. Basic Books, New York, NY.

Restworks

2024 22 Famous Nappers: How Napping Was These People’s Key to Success. Restworks (website), rest.works/en/article/famous-nappers-in-history/.

Roblin, Sebastien

2017 Puerto Rican Assassins Nearly Caught Pres. Harry Truman in His Underwear. War Is Boring, November 20, 2017, warisboring.com/amateur-assassins-trying-to-strike-a-blow-for-puerto-rican-independence-nearly-caught-pres-harry-truman-in-his-underwear/.

Tucker, Aimee

2013 Mark Twain Bed / Local Treasure. New England, July 22, 2013, newengland.com/yankee/magazine/mark-twain-bed/.

Woolston, Chris

2024 Why Do We Sleep? Researchers Propose an Answer to This Age-Old Question. Washington University (website), January 9, 2024, artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/ why-do-we-sleep-researchers-propose-answer-age-old-question.