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Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Sleep Architecture - What Is It?

Rem sleep is the principal stage during which you dream, and so it's a safety mechanism. So cleverly, your brain paralyzes your body so your mind can dream safely y stay in one place. These two types of sleep will then play out in a battle for brain domination throughout the night. And that sort of cerebral war is going to be won and lost every 90 minutes in humans, and then replayed every 90 minutes. The electrical signature of your sleeps are not just the stages and the architecture, but you consider o get an electrical stead of map of their brain activity during sleep. It's so highly replicable from one night to the next, it's almost like a sleep finger

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