“I sleep, but my heart is awake,”
+..neo-kraut +.. Gong and Can... +.. Desert psych rock shoegaze Purpur by ZAHN + Deep Fried Grandeur by Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo + Friends in Dark Places by The Black Drumset The results were staggering. For one month, beginning at dusk and ending at dawn, Wehr’s subjects were removed from every possible form of artificial lighting—even the gentle glow of a luminescent clock. During the first three weeks, they slept as usual, only for about an hour longer. (After all, he reasoned, like most Americans, they were probably sleep deprived.) But at week four a dramatic change occurred. The participants slept the same number of hours as before, but now their sleep was divided in two. They began each night with approximately four hours of deep sleep, woke for two hours of what Wehr termed “quiet rest,” and then slept for another four. During the gap between their first and second sleep, Wehr’s subjects were neither awake nor fully asleep. Rather, they experienced a c...