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You Can’t Sleep While Traveling Because Your Brain Acts Like a Dolphin’s

Source: Smithsonian

Sleep researchers found that when you try to sleep in a new place, half of your brain stays alert to danger. Find out why poor sleep in strange surroundings is due to fear.

This entry was posted in Facing Fear and tagged Health & Medicine, Science & Nature on July 1, 2016 by Marianne Rafter.

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