Blog Post #4

I read the article "What? Me Biased?" The article pretty much summed up how we as humans think unconsciously and are more often than not biased. An example they used was comparing the British actress Kate Winslet to the Asian-American actress Lucy Liu. Researchers showed that many people think of Winslet, who is not American, more of an American than Liu just by looking at their faces. They also went on to make reference as to how crucial the 2008 Presidential election was in American history, voting in our first African American President. I found it interesting to relize just how biased we are on a day to day basis, and it's more often than we think.

I found it crazy how much information our senses take in-in just one second! I also read up on the different sleep stages, and our our body almost like loses consciousness. I wish I could get more sleep on a regular basis, and I found out just how much it affects me when I don't get the sleep I need. I think this is what surprised me the most, too. I never realized the different things that you should do in order to get enough sleep, and what all affects you when you don't get enough sleep. I think that perhaps I can make my lifestyle better if I start to get a better sleep pattern.

I agree to why we dream what we dream (to satisfy our own wishes, to file away memories, to develop and preserve neural pathways, to make sense of neural static, or to reflect cognitive development) considering these are the categories all of my dreams would fall into. Overall, I rather enjoyed this section, because I could more directly relate to what they were talking about.