Whenever I read a book, I start feeling sleepy after a while no matter how interested I am in the topic. I have also heard others to have similar experience. Why does this happen?
In: Biology
I have a baseless hypothesis that, because so many of us had our parents or someone read is to sleep as kids, we kind of get sleepy from reading. I wasn’t really read to, because I have four younger brothers and two crazy parents, but I love reading. It tends to keep me up. But my son’s mom was read to every night, and she could never read more than one or two pages before being asleep.
It’s funny–I’ve thought this for 15 years now, and I’ve even said it out loud, but writing it out just now makes it seem like a stretch. Reading and being read to are very different, brain-wise. Or are they? We *do* tend to subvocalize, and language is language…
Oh boy.
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