"Sleep"

This AP story had me worried for a little while. I envisioned my overzealous friends waving copies of this study under my nose (like relatives flagellating a tobacco user with copies of NIH reports.)

Here's the gist of the story. A group of German researchers who'd obviously been chugging a little too much 3 a.m. Mountain Dew decided to study the effects of sleep on creativity. The results? Shockingly, subjects who had gotten more sleep were less likely to perform like zombies on math exams the next morning. Whoda thunkit?

Naturally, this scientific study made me a bit uncomfortable. "What?" I said to myself in shock and taken-abackness. "Is it possible?! Can it be that there is a scientific reason for me to get more sleep? Never!"

Then I spotted this cute little line:

History is rife with examples of artists and scientists who have awakened to make their most notable contributions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the epic poem "Kubla Khan" after a long night of rest.

I nearly laughed aloud. Well, now we know what kind of creativity-enhancing sleep the Germans are talking about, don't we?

| Posted by Wilson at 0:55 Central | TrackBack
| Report submitted to the Frivolity Desk