Another interesting topic would be the effect of body temperature on sleep latency and/or quality (or possibly temperature of selected body parts—there is some buzz about the so-called “cooling cap” for insomnia lately, for example).
To me it seems a big breakthrough for being able to trim sleep time down substantially would be some technology that allowed a person to pass through the lighter stages of NREM sleep more quickly so that you could spend the majority of sleep time in slow wave.
Another interesting topic would be the effect of body temperature on sleep latency and/or quality (or possibly temperature of selected body parts—there is some buzz about the so-called “cooling cap” for insomnia lately, for example).
To me it seems a big breakthrough for being able to trim sleep time down substantially would be some technology that allowed a person to pass through the lighter stages of NREM sleep more quickly so that you could spend the majority of sleep time in slow wave.