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Understand Night Wakings as a Sleep-Architecture Transition
If you wake around 2–3 a.m. with racing thoughts, recognize it may reflect the normal transition from early-night slow-wave sleep to later-night REM-dominant sleep.
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“one of the reasons they'll wake up suddenly at 2 or 3 a.m. is that they're undergoing this transition from kind of one form of sleep to another. ... and that heart racing emotionally laden thoughts is characteristic of where they supposed to be in the sleep architecture cycle.”
Andrew Huberman · How to Control Your Inner Voice & Increase Your Resilience | Dr. Ethan Kross · Nov 25, 2024 · 1:13:18 · open ↗
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