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When we would go back to the physiological signals we had recorded during the night, we would often see numerous awakenings and a severely fragmented
sleep
structure.
These awakenings were too brief for the subjects to regain consciousness and to remember them during the next morning, but they may nevertheless have a profound impact on how restful our
sleep
is.
That is the call that chimpanzees make before they go to
sleep
in the evening.
"He's got to
sleep
sometime."
I'm a video game addict, and it's not because of a certain number of hours I have spent playing, or nights I have gone without
sleep
to finish the next level.
With the aid of her case manager, she moved back into her apartment but continued to
sleep
on the floor for several nights.
And even if I loved the bands, all I wanted to do was to go back to my tent and have a sleep, because I'd just feel completely wiped out, and I was really jealous of people that had the energy to go and party hard at the festivals.
But there’s one opportunity: after each hour, it goes to sleep, forming itself into a flat triangle and resting for a few minutes before it begins eating and growing again.
What if you could make your
sleep
more efficient?
As a
sleep
scientist, this is the question that has captivated me for the past 10 years.
The circadian rhythm dictates our energy level throughout the day, and only recently we've been conducting a global experiment on this rhythm, which is putting our
sleep
health and ultimately our life quality in jeopardy.
Because of this, we aren't getting the
sleep
we need, with the average American sleeping a whole hour less than they did in the 1940s.
Most of us know that poor
sleep
is linked to diseases like Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.
And if you go untreated with a
sleep
disorder like
sleep
apnea, you're more likely to get many of these illnesses.
But did you know about
sleep'
s impact on your mental states?
Poor
sleep
makes us make risky, rash decisions and is a drain on our capacity for empathy.
When
sleep
deprivation literally makes us more sensitive to our own pain, it's not so surprising that we have a hard time relating to others and just generally being a good and healthy person when we're sleep-deprived.
Scientists are now starting to understand how not only the quantity but also the quality of
sleep
impacts our health and well-being.
My research focuses on what many scientists believe is the most regenerative stage of sleep: deep
sleep.
We now know that generally speaking, there are three stages of sleep: light sleep, rapid eye movement or REM and deep
sleep.
In light
sleep
and REM, our brain waves are very similar to our brain waves in waking life.
But our brain waves in deep
sleep
have these long-burst brain waves that are very different from our waking life brain waves.
When we don't get the deep
sleep
we need, it inhibits our ability to learn and for our cells and bodies to recover.
Deep
sleep
is how we convert all those interactions that we make during the day into our long-term memory and personalities.
So in way, deep
sleep
and delta waves are actually a marker for biological youth.
I even shifted my circadian component by changing my meals, exercise and light exposure, but I still couldn't find a way to get a deeper night of
sleep
... that is until I met Dr. Dmitry Gerashchenko from Harvard Medical School.
Dmitry told me about a new finding in the literature, where a lab out of Germany showed that if you could play certain sounds at the right time in people's sleep, you could actually make
sleep
deeper and more efficient.
When we detected that people were in deep sleep, we played the deep-sleep stimulating sounds that were shown to make them have deeper
sleep.
We learned that we could accurately track
sleep
without hooking people up to electrodes and make people
sleep
deeper.
We're continuing to develop the right sound environment and
sleep
habitat to improve people's
sleep
health.
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