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Recent research reveals we dip into a sleeplike state as our brains flush out waste buildup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

“It’s this kind of very sleeplike moment,” said Laura Lewis, an associate professor of electrical and medical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of the study.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

When deprived of this sleeplike period with irritating vibrations that were applied to their tank, the hydras “slept” longer the next chance they got and fell asleep more quickly.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

The baron, Elvira further explains, had begun to experiment on her, inducing sleeplike states and strange dreams.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2015

Therapeutically it can hardly secure an effect which cannot better be secured through the real sleeplike hypnotism.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo