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To increase performance on certain mental tasks, sleep is good, but dreaming while sleeping is better.
In fact, they were up to ten times better at it than those who only thought of the maze while awake between attempts, and those who napped but did not dream about the maze.
A 1983 neurobiological theory of dreaming, called reverse learning, holds that while sleeping, and mainly during REM sleep cycles, your neocortex reviews these neural connections and dumps the unnecessary ones.
Without this unlearning process, which results in your dreams, your brain could be overrun by useless connections and parasitic thoughts could disrupt the necessary thinking you need to do while you're awake.
Unconstrained by reality and the rules of conventional logic, in your dreams, your mind can create limitless scenarios to help you grasp problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake.
Out of each hospital's last 1000 patient's, 900 survived at Hospital A, while only 800 survived at Hospital B. So it looks like Hospital A is the better choice.
The node is lined with tiny hairs called cilia, while tilt away from the head and whirl around rapidly, all in the same direction.
So while symmetry may be beautiful, asymmetry holds an allure of its own, found in its graceful whirls, its organized complexity, and its striking imperfections.
The possessed students might lie, or they might not, but you know there are only two of them, while the other six will always tell the truth.
Neighboring countries' monarchs feared they would share the fate of Louis XVI, and attacked the New Republic, while at home, extremism and mistrust between factions lead to bloodshed.
All nuclear radiation is ionizing, while only the highest energy electromagnetic radiation is.
While these functions are essential to our survival, we need to compensate for the fluid loss.
While water is the healthiest hydrator, other beverages, even those with caffeine like coffee or tea, replenish fluids as well.
Fruits and vegetables like strawberries, cucumbers, and even broccoli are over 90% water, and can supplement liquid intake while providing valuable nutrients and fiber.
Schools of fish exhibit complex swarming behaviors that help them evade hungry predators, while a lone fish is quickly singled out as easy prey.
While the school of fish is elegantly twisting, turning, and dodging sharks in what looks like deliberate coordination, each individual fish is actually just following two basic rules that have nothing to do with the shark: one, stay close, but not too close to your neighbor, and two, keep swimmming.
On each subject, one index finger was covered in the new painkiller while the other remained untouched.
In English, the subject normally comes first, followed by the verb, and then the object, while in Japanese and many other languages, the order is subject, object, verb.
And while any language needs consistent patterns to function, the study of these patterns opens up an ongoing debate between two positions known as prescriptivism and descriptivism.
Grossly simplified, prescriptivists think a given language should follow consistent rules, while descriptivists see variation and adaptation as a natural and necessary part of language.
But while the debate between prescriptivism and descriptivism continues, the two are not mutually exclusive.
While optical storage media are cheap and removable, they have even slower latencies than magnetic storage and lower capacity as well.
And while this approach has merits, I have come full circle.
Now, while I've had a few spicy moments with sharks on the sardine run, I know they don't see me as prey.
My hope is that in the future, I will have to search much, much harder to make photographs like this, while creating images that showcase our respectful coexistence with the ocean.
The first group was asked whether Mahatma Gandhi died before or after age 9, while the second was asked whether he died before or after age 140.
Both numbers were obviously way off, but when the students were then asked to guess the actual age at which he died, the first group's answers averaged to 50 while the second group's averaged to 67.
So while we may be awed by hidden messages in everything from books, to pieces of toast, to the night sky, their real origin is usually our own minds.
In a basic graph, the circles representing the objects are known as nodes, while the connecting lines are called edges.
In the simultaneous mode interpreters instantaneously translate a speaker's words into a microphone while he speaks.
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