For most of us, sleep is nothing but a compulsory action that we have to do at least once a day, but for scientists who study it, the mysteries of sleep contribute to a plague of questions with hard to decipher, often inaccessible, answers. Questions such as what function does sleep serve and is there an internal mechanism controlling our sleep are among various possible questions that researchers in the field continue to scrutinize but in this particular paper we will examine the stages of sleep, their physiological differences and a number of the theories behind Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.
January 20, 2010
William ‘The Mutilator’ MacDonald
William MacDonald was originally born in England and migrated to Australia. He committed his first murder in Brisbane sometime in 1961 when he befriended a man by the name of Amos Hurst outside the Roma Street Transit Centre. They headed to one of the local pubs and after a lengthy drinking session headed back to the soon to be victims apartment where they drank more. Eventually MacDonald straddled Hurst and began strangling him; Hurst was so intoxicated he never even realised what was happening to him. Hurst’s cause of death was actually listed as accidental and had MacDonald not confessed to the crime he would not have been charged with it.