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A Toolkit for Creating the Perfect Morning Routine

The Mel Robbins Podcast

CHAPTER

The Science Behind Sleep Inertia

When you hit the snooze button instead of getting your ass out of bed, you mistakenly create a condition in your brain called sleep inertia. When you drift back to sleep after you've woken up, your brain starts a sleep cycle. And when that alarm goes off again in nine minutes, and you're like in deep sleep? That's because you're nine minutes in to a 75 minute sleep cycle. So tomorrow morning, we're not waking up for somebody else. We're not laying in bed and listening to that bullshit because you get to make a choice.

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