Eye Floaters And Flashes
Sleep There are four stages of sleep. Non-REM one, two, and three and REM sleep, where you have Rapid Eye Movements and dream the most. If you know you’re dreaming, you’re lucid dreaming and while some people think that dreams might be how we organize information and cope with life, we really don’t know. Twenty-four…
Hey There! Welcome To Life Noggin! Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, being fully conscious, then realizing you can’t move a muscle. Your chest tightens and it gets hard to breathe. You start hallucinating and a dark figure begins moving towards you. You try to scream for help, but you can’t. Are…
By now, you’re probably used to ‘flu season’ coming around every year. These days, you can often avoid getting sick through vaccines, washing your hands, and avoiding sneezing co-workers. So while influenza can be dangerous, for most people it’s just another part of winter. But a hundred years ago, at the start of 1918, the…
It’s AumSum Time. Why do our Eyes get Dry? Not my eyes. They have a bath everyday. Oh AumSum. Dry eye is a condition in which our eyes lack the tears necessary. To nourish or lubricate them. Most common causes of dry eyes are. Firstly, decrease in the amount of tears produced by one’s eyes….
Hey there! Welcome to Life Noggin! [YAWNS] Gettin kinda sleepy. I’m still gonna do the episode, but wow i’m tired. Many of my human friends out there like hitting the hay after a few drinks. The numbers can differ, but it’s thought that about 20% of Americans use alcohol as a way to fall asleep….
[ ♪INTRO ] In the award-winning movie Sleepwalk with Me, based on the one-man show of the same name, comedian Mike Birbiglia describes the hilarious and often startling things his body does when he’s sleeping. Birbiglia has REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, a sleep disorder that causes people to physically act out their dreams….
How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works With more than 150 million people in the United States (nearly half of the population) requiring some form of corrective eyewear to compensate for visual impairment, chances are you have had your eyesight graded on the 20/20 scale before. If you haven’t, you have probably heard other people saying…
It’s the holiday season, and this year I was lucky enough to travel up above the Arctic circle where I saw some reindeer. Now, while some magical reindeer may pull Santa’s sleigh, your average, everyday reindeer is pretty fascinating, too. So today, let’s talk about the bizarre side of reindeer that you may never have…
Visual intelligence is the concept that we see more than we can process and it’s the idea of thinking about what we see, taking in the information and what do we really need to live our lives more purposefully and do our jobs more effectively. What I ask the people at The Art of Perception…
This video is an illusion. It might seem like I’m moving around, but I’m not. I’m just a series of completely still images flashing quickly before your eyes. Your brain is stitching those frames together to create the perception that I’m moving around like I would be if I were right there in front of…