Thomas Andrillon is a PhD Student at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.
An illustration of awake and asleep. (Courtesy of Michael Halassa, M.D., PhD
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still deeply anchored in our view of sleep today, despite some everyday life experiences and recent scientific discoveries that would tend to prove that our brains don’t completely switch off from our environment. How Your Brain Actually Makes Decisions While You Sleep by Thavam