Sleepwalker Brain, Games & Navigation, Endurance Hunting

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about what goes on in our brains when we sleepwalk, how playing video games might actually help us navigate the world IRL, and the endurance hunting of traditional societies.

Sleepwalker Brain

“Scientists Discover What’s Happening Inside a Sleepwalker’s Brain.” by Rhianna-lily Smith. 2024.
“Shared EEG correlates between non-REM parasomnia experiences and dreams.” by Jacinthe Cataldi, et al. 2024.
“Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement.” by Jaakko O. Nieminen, et al. 2016.
“Parasomnia: what happens inside a sleepwalker’s brain?” Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. 2024.

Games & Navigation

“Playing video games linked to enhanced wayfinding abilities.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
“Sea Hero Quest.” Spiers Lab. n.d.
“5 facts about Americans and video games.” by Andrew Perrin. 2018.
“Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” by Emre Yavuz, et al. 2024

Endurance Hunting

“Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey.” by Kermit Pattison. 2024.
“Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans.” by Eugene Morin & Bruce Winterhalder. 2024.

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0:00.0	Welcome all to Curiosity Daily from Discovery, the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:09.4	My name's Nate.
0:10.4	Welcome back everybody.
0:11.4	We're so excited to have you here with us today. My name is
0:13.7	Callie. Today you'll learn about what goes on in our brains when we sleepwalk,
0:17.8	how playing video games might actually help us navigate the world IRL and the endurance hunting of
0:24.2	traditional societies. All right, let's satisfy some curiosity. It's reported that up to
0:29.0	94% of adults have experienced at least one instance of Parasomia and in case you're wondering of what are supposed to happen when we sleep. Like sleepwalking?
0:44.0	Exactly like sleepwalking.
0:46.0	Or sleep talking or sleep eating, even sleep driving.
0:50.0	Oh wait, no way.
0:52.0	Yeah, it's happened, happened believe or not. Obviously most
0:54.7	parasomials are pretty mild but there are some like the driving that are intense
0:59.1	and can be really disruptive and even dangerous and even minor incidents can leave you
1:04.2	and those sleeping near you, you know, deeply distressed. But as with all things
1:08.5	sleep related, the science has a long way to go before it catches up with the
1:12.2	reality.
1:13.0	However, researchers in the Netherlands have published a study in which they were able to look
1:16.8	at brain activity during these episodes, particularly during non-rem sleep.
1:21.8	Wait a second. I have a couple of questions.
1:24.0	First, I thought all of these things happened when we were dreaming.
1:27.0	Isn't that REM sleep?
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