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Work From Home and the Pandemic
Pandemic and associated shift towards working from home might have affected rem sleep. Rem sleep is the cognitive or mentally restorative part of sleep. There's a lot of research out there that mild stress actually increases rem sleep. We typically do see as a response to mil stressers associated with working from home. And being in the middle of a pandemic could certainly explain that increase. But we're seeing things that like, lots of people are saving 90 plus minutes a day by not commuting - which woull be associated with an increase in REM sleep.