Can You Fake Sleep?
If you were sleep deprived, could you just fake that you got more sleep the night before? Science has some interesting answers. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking...
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Imagine you wake up thinking I had a wonderful night’s sleep, I feel fantastic and I’m going to get up immediately. If you’re anything like me, that never happens. No matter how much sleep you get, there’s always that niggling voice inside your head [just a little bit more], the snooze button, more alarms, and you thinking about how tired you are. But simply thinking you got a good night's sleep can improve your brain function. In a recent study researchers told participants that those who spend more than 25% of their time asleep in REM sleep have better cognitive functioning. Last week I mentioned when we sleep, we cycle through stages of light and deep sleep. The first and second stages are light sleep and we can be woken up easily. When you ...
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Imagine you wake up thinking I had a wonderful night’s sleep, I feel fantastic and I’m going to get up immediately. If you’re anything like me, that never happens. No matter how much sleep you get, there’s always that niggling voice inside your head [just a little bit more], the snooze button, more alarms, and you thinking about how tired you are. But simply thinking you got a good night's sleep can improve your brain function. In a recent study researchers told participants that those who spend more than 25% of their time asleep in REM sleep have better cognitive functioning. Last week I mentioned when we sleep, we cycle through stages of light and deep sleep. The first and second stages are light sleep and we can be woken up easily. When you ...
