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Old 08-26-2007, 01:18 PM   #10
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It is interesting that the dolphin sleeps with only one half of its brain at a time so that it can still swim and breathe. This suggests that the benefits of sleep are mainly physiological and that dreams are merely side-effects of those physiological changes.

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