Fun facts I have learned from psychology and wished to share:
WARNING: the content viewed herein contains violent and/or sexual references. You are warned.
Fact 1: If you sever a cat’s brainstem from the rest of its brain the animal will still live, breathe, run, climb, and groom. However it will not purposefully run or climb to get food. If you perform this same fun experiment with a human they will only maintain their ability to breath and maintain a heartbeat.
So how do you tell a common housecat from one whose brainstem has been severed?
Fact 2: When humans go into the REM cycle of their sleep males will experience an erection and females will experience increased vaginal lubrication and clitoral engorgement, regardless of whether the dream’s content is sexual (Karacan et al.,1966) That’s right, I have references.
Fact 3: Psychologists have performed some terrible experiments with cats
Fact 4: Individuals who have had their Corpus callosum (fibers that connect the right and left sides of the brain) severed to prevent seizures end up with essentially two separately functioning brains. They occasionally find their left hand unbuttoning a shirt while they are trying to button it with their right hand.
Fact 5: During daylight savings time the frequency of vehicular accidents increases on the day when everyone gets one less hour of sleep and decreases on the day when everyone gets an extra hour of sleep.
Fact 6: one in twenty people who snores is actually suffering from sleep apnea. Basically these poor people stop breathing during sleep and after a minute or so decreased blood oxygen will wake them up enough for them to snort in a small lungful of air. Sleep apnea often makes the sufferers irritable or depressed from lack of sleep. Fortunately there are wonderful snorkeler-looking devices that a doctor can prescribe to keep your airway open at night.
Fact 7: fish do not dream
Fact 8: Horses can sleep standing but must lie down for REM sleep
Fact 9: Dolphins, porpoises, and whales sleep with one side of their brain asleep at a time.
-M
4 comments:
How do you tell a common housecat from the one who was run over on the highway?
- The one on the highway has a better personality.
yeah, keeping you away from the apartment...
now that I'm learning these mental illnesses I keep diagnosing people I know and myself. This is concerning because I've diagnosed myself with every mental issue there is...and given that I have psychologist fear I guess I'll never know
-M
This sounds like psycology 101 with Hodge..hmmm...but interesting.
Also - my brother-in-law has sleep apnea.
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