Why do I get so sleepy riding in a car?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever been on a long car trip, you may have noticed that you start to feel sleepy as the car moves. Is it because the seats are so comfy? Is the radio hypnotizing you? Are the floor mats sprinkled with secret sleepy dust? We asked neuroscientist Aurore Perrault to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on this is the moment of um. |
| 0:05.0 | Moment of um. |
| 0:09.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Laura La Rue, the lullaby lady. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, why, hello there. Are you searching for a sleepy time song, a drowsy ditty, a lovely lullaby? You've come to the right person. They don't call me the lullaby lady for nothing. |
| 0:33.0 | You ever heard of Rockabai baby? |
| 0:36.0 | That was me. |
| 0:37.0 | Row, row your boat? |
| 0:39.0 | Me? |
| 0:40.0 | Claire Daloon? |
| 0:42.0 | Okay, that one was Claude Debussy, but he absolutely got the idea from me. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm the Queen of Quietude. |
| 0:49.0 | And today I'm working on my greatest challenge yet. A lullaby for kids who get sleepy in the car. |
| 0:56.0 | You know, the low rumble of the engine, the vibration of the tires on the road, |
| 1:02.0 | it's the perfect setting for a modern lullaby. |
| 1:05.0 | My new muse, I don't know why cars make some people sleepy though, |
| 1:10.0 | and my friend Sanchi was wondering the same thing. |
| 1:14.0 | So the idea is we get sleepy in the car because the car is moving right in a very rhythmic manner. |
| 1:22.0 | What we know is when a baby is... right in a very rhythmic manner. |
| 1:22.6 | What we know is when a baby is in the womb, |
| 1:25.8 | the first first sensorial experience that he will, |
| 1:30.3 | she will experience, is the rocking movements. |
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