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The Best Sleep Podcast Ever: Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Better, Hacking Sleep, Sleep Cycles, Insomnia, Sleep Apnea & More

Ben Greenfield Life

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How to Enhance Sleep

The other thing we tested in our lab is deep sleep stimulation. This is where I actually got my start doing transcranial direct current stimulation when I was working for the Naval Research Labs and Air Force Research Labs. And later it became known that you can play sounds that entrain this delta brainwave. It's basically like a whooshing sound at 1.2 hertz, which is the oscillation of your slow wave brainwaves. When we play these tones at just the right time and intensity during sleep, we could increase the delta wave sleep, the slow wave sleep. Oh, wow. That's what I'm trying to do now. Can you do it in sleep space?

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