The Physiology Of Sleep

The Physiology Of SleepIt was four o'clock in the morning. Private David S. bent over a wash basin to clean up, glanced casually into the mirror above the basin – and received the shock of his life. He saw cobwebs on his face, a mass of clotted dirty material clinging to his cheeks, nose, chin. He tried to brush the stuff off, but it stuck fast. Then he looked down at his hands, and noticed with horror that they were covered with cobwebs too. "I called for help," he later said, "a...