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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by s__s on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:58PM (#31801681)
I have a newborn and every night while falling asleep all I hear is his cooing and laughing on replay.

It’s sort of like when you play a lot of Tetris and you can’t stop seeing the falling bricks as you fall asleep.

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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by throwaway3neu94 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:34PM (#31802033)
On two occasions, once after skiing for a week and once after playing flight sims an entire Saturday, I had an intense (and very nice) feeling of gliding down a (glide)slope as I fell asleep.
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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by Cthulhu_ on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:42AM (#31810252)
Lucky you, I get visions of running on the school yard and tripping over, lol.
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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by someweirdperson on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:36PM (#31802046)
> It’s sort of like when you play a lot of Tetris and you can’t stop seeing the falling bricks as you fall asleep.

Never noticed this from any single-threaded activity. But once I played two games in parallel for a few hours (two instances of wow) that had a direct impact on trying to fall asleep. The task-switching tried to check my other self, but there was no other instance to switch to.

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