Sublime

Sleep researchers believe evolution wired us for bi-phasic sleep patterns: a major nighttime chunk (likely interrupted in primal times by security or family issues) along with a mid-day siesta, well-timed to correspond with a natural circadian rhythm dip that we all experience in the afternoon hours.

two neuroscientists by the name of Magoun and Moruzzi discovered that we have a thing called the Reticular Activating System in our brains.

Put most simply, he borrowed my brain. We do this for one another all the time. Current research clearly indicates that we are not walled-in, freestanding individuals. Our human brains—in fact, most mammals’ brains—are built for co-regulation.

I often wondered what would happen if a teacher could really get inside the student’s head. To accomplish this, I played games with my students, had them talk out loud before they made a move and after I made mine, and wrote down their thoughts. To my amazement, I was soon seeing problems that I never imagined they possessed.

One was the fact that our father’s neocortex genes seem to be suppressed during development so that the neocortex we have is determined by our mother’s genes;

Built into our human brains from birth is an intense need for attention and understanding from our parents.