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#SLEEP EXPERT FULL#

#SLEEP EXPERT FULL#

To avoid that, it's best to limit your nap to 15 to 20 minutes or if you can really commit to the nap, rest for a full sleep cycle of 90 minutes so that you are waking as your body is cycling into a phase of lighter sleep, suggests McGinn.Ī power nap of 10 to 20 minutes can boost your energy and alertness without the feeling of sleep inertia when you wake up, says McGinn. "When we enter stage three of sleep, at around the 30-minute mark we are in a deeper stage of slumber so when you wake up from a nap after 30 to 60 minutes this is where you wake up feeling really sluggish," explains the sleep expert. Throughout that time we are cycling through stages of light and deep sleep phases," tells McGinn. "If we look at an adult’s sleep cycle, a full-cycle lasts for around 90 minutes. This can happen depending on how long you napped for," says Alanna McGinn, founder of the Good Night Sleep Site and host of This Girl Loves Sleep podcast. It feels like you have a ‘sleep hangover’. This is the transitional state between sleep and wakefulness where there is still a desire to return to sleep. "When you wake up feeling groggy after taking a nap, it’s what we call 'sleep inertia'. "Those struggling with insomnia would be much better served not napping, and building their 'sleep pressure'-or the urge for nighttime slumber-so that when their bedtime comes around they are optimally tired and stand the best chance of getting nighttime sleep," tells Dr. You essentially dream while you’re awake.She also recommends avoiding naps altogether if you are experiencing insomnia.

The alcohol has been blocking REM sleep so long, and the pressure for deep sleep has built up so much, it has spilled over into wakefulness.

When an alcoholic stops drinking alcohol, they’ll often develop delirium tremens.

Marijuana certainly puts people to sleep quicker, but its debatable whether it’s naturalistic sleep.

This is where you have really intense dreams.

The brain develops such an appetite for dream sleep, that you’ll get a REM sleep rebound effect if you stop smoking for a period of time.

The brain is very clever, and builds up a clock count of how much dream sleep you should of had, but have not been getting.

Cannabis is very good at blocking REM (dream sleep) – alcohol also blocks REM sleep.

Joe has noticed after he stopped smoking cannabis for a short period of time, he had very vivid dreams.

These are the stages of sleep that one half of your brain will resist going into when you’re sleeping in a foreign environment.

In stages 3 and 4, that’s where a lot of body replenishment takes place.

Non-REM Sleep (of which there are 4 stages, stages 1-4).

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