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Insomnia

By The Daily Dish

Mar 2 2010, 2:36 AM ET

by Patrick Appel

I have the same problem as Jonah Lehrer:

My conscious goal is to fall asleep, which then causes my unconscious to continually check up on whether or not I'm achieving my goal. And so, after passing out for 30 seconds, I'm woken up by my perverse brain. (Most animals lack such self-aware thoughts, which is why our pets never have trouble taking a nap.)



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