Our Brains Would Let Us Walk Around While We Sleep
Great. Our brains don't shut off even when we sleep. True, they're used when we're dreaming and also those awful times when we're just drifting off to sleep and jerk awake. (That's called a hypnic jerk. See? You learned something today.) But I for one always thought that my brain rested at night so it could get ready for rousing my kid out of bed (actually, fighting is more like it), slicing fruit and pouring Cheerios for his breakfast, showering, making sure he's getting dressed, signing on to the computer to see what's going on at work, making sure he's getting dressed, making his lunch (easy -- he eats only Goldfish, go figure), warming up the car, making sure he's getting dressed, and finally, getting him in and driving to school, then to the grocery store, and on to work. It's amazing I have any brain left at all. And that doesn't count making sure my husband stops exercising long enough to take the garbage out. Ah, it'...