A walk through the stages of sleep| Sleeping with Science, a TED series

Understanding the science of sleep can become very overwhelming and confusing. This video created by Matt Walker, a brain scientist trying to understand sleep, does a great job explaining what is going on in your brain during this time. We spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping, yet many of us do not actually know what happens during this time. I found the addition of the artwork to be helpful as well. Creating visuals when discussing an information heavy topic, can really help people better understand.

6 tips for better sleep| Sleeping with Science, a TED series

Another video done by Matt Walker discussing the science of sleep can be seen above. Walker lists tips for better, Regularity, Temperature, Darkness, Walk it out, Monitor alcohol & caffeine, and Wind down routine.

 

Laurie Frick is an artist who tracks her sleeping patterns and turns it into art. At first, Frick felt embarrassed to leave social events early to say it was past her bedtime, but through her work she realized that sleep affects everything about you. To get her sleep results she wears and EEG headband, this records her data every night. To create Frick’s drawings, she places her data into an Excel spreadsheet.

Each horizontal line represents one night of sleep. Each chart, and drawing, shows roughly a month of sleep. Frick also uses different colors to show the different stages of sleep. For example, she translates light sleep into white, and folds up sections on the piece to create a three-dimensional effect.

Frick taught me about light sleep, which she calls trash sleep. She states how light sleep is the bridge between being awake and being asleep. Sleep and art combined create a new way for people to try and understand what their mind does when their body is asleep. Frick says that art is a way to talk about sleep, to look at it. It’s not so tech like medicine or health, it is part of who you are. Frick’s artwork has many viewers, including myself, interested in conducting their own sleep data in order to better understand their future.

If you would like to view more of Laurie Frick’s works on exploring sleep, please feel free to click the following link. PechaKucha__Laurie Frick

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/music-happiness-neuroscience.html

This website shares the top ten happiest songs, that overall boost your productivity. It states how music is closely linked to ones emotions. I greatly believe in this statement, I am constantly listening to music and can agree that different music effects my mood. Everyone has varying tastes in music, which Dr. Jacob Jolij addresses. He states “Music appreciation is highly personal and strongly depends on social context, and personal associations. In that respect, the idea of a ‘feel good formula’ is a bit odd”. The public surveyed to generally contain songs of tunes that are slightly faster than your average song, written in a major key, and either about happy events or complete nonsense.