When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if … - Shelby Harris

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Shelby Harris

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.

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So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.

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So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.

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So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.

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So you have Sleep Stage One, Two, and then Three
Four. One is a little bit lighter stage of the quiet, non-REM sleep and then Three
Four is really deep, deep sleep. And what you want is, you actually want a number of - you want to go through all of these stages throughout the night.

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So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

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