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The article mentions its difficult to find people that can sleep with an EEG cap inside a loud MRI machine. I'd assume the same would be true for meditation as
by tsumnia 7y ago
The article mentions its difficult to find people that can sleep with an EEG cap inside a loud MRI machine. I'd assume the same would be true for meditation as well.
- gshdg 7y agoOne has to wonder how that affects the validity of sleep studies, or at least their applicability to the general population.
- jacobrobbins 7y agoit would seem likely that if they discover a physical mechanism at work in select individuals brains (electric waves followed by rhythmic waves of fluid) that the mechanism exists in some form in all individuals. I agree it does make for a clear follow up question: "could this mechanism be altered in some ways in people who experience sleep problems?"
- gshdg 7y agoOr even "could this mechanism work differently in people who are unusually easy sleepers / deep sleepers vs. the general population?"
- ChuckMcM 7y agoFor me it is fairly straight forward to meditate even in noisy environments where I could not sleep. But I have no idea how prevalent that is. Certainly many people meditate in dark and quiet spaces (I worry I would fall asleep in such spaces but again, that's just me)
- jshevek 7y agoYes, there are many noisy environments where it is easier for me to meditate than to sleep, and some in which the reverse is true.
- jshevek 7y agoThis was not true in my case. I cannot meditate easily if I hear conversations or erratic noises, but the steady rhythmic nature of the MRI machine integrated effortlessly with my meditation. The staff thought I was sleeping, and said they'd never seen someone sleep through such noise.