Part 1: What is sleep really for? 🤔
Welcome to the first part of our "Master Your Sleep" series.
In this segment, we dive into the essential question: "What is sleep really for?"
Join us as we explore the vital role sleep plays in our health and well-being, based on insights from neuroscientist Andrew Huberman. Let's unlock the secrets to better sleep together!
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So let's talk about sleep. Sleep is this incredible period of our lives where we are not conscious. We might dream, we might twitch, we might even wake up, but in sleep, we are only in relation to things that are happening within our brain and body. Outside sensory experience, in most cases, can't really impact us, and yet, sleep is this tremendously important period of life because it resets our ability to be focused, alert, and emotionally stable in the wakeful period. We can't really talk about wakefulness, focus, motivation, mood, and wellbeing without thinking about sleep, and that's why we're devoting this entire month to the discussion about sleep.
Now, we also can't talk about sleep and think about sleep without thinking about wakefulness because it turns out that the period that we call sleep and the period we call wakefulness are tethered to one another. What we do in the waking state determines when we fall asleep, how quickly we fall asleep, whether or not we stay asleep, and how we feel when we wake up the next day. Today, we're going to talk mostly about how to get better at sleeping, and the reason for starting the conversation that way as opposed to just diving into a lot of biology about sleep is because first of all, there's a lot of information out there already about the biology of sleep.
We're gonna touch on a little bit of this, things like stages of sleep and sleep spindles, melatonin, and dreaming, but I think that by now, most people are aware that getting a really good night's sleep on a consistent basis is critically important, but most people don't know how to do that. In fact, I'm guessing that very few of you out there are consistently getting seven to nine hours of really terrific sleep, waking up feeling rested and like you're ready to attack the day, and being able to go through the day feeling focused and alert without dips in energy or focus.
So if you're like most people, which includes me, you have some challenges with sleep at least every third or fifth night or so and maybe even more often. We're really gonna go tool-heavy today and talk about tools that can help you fall asleep, sleep better, and emerge from sleep feeling more rested, and we're gonna do that by grounding our discussion of tools in peer-reviewed studies, mostly from the last 10 years, although some even more recent than that. We're gonna start by discussing what is sleep and what governs the timing of the onset of sleep, in other words, what makes you get sleepy at a particular time of day.
(Stay tuned for tomorrow's Part 2 of our Sleep Series!)
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