The rise in your cor body temperature that helps wake you up and bring you out of sleep. And then once we've fallen asleep, we need to continue to drop our cold corbody temperature to stay asleep - which is why we recommend a cool bedroom temperature. But as we're starting to get closer to our natural time of waking up, if we allowed ourselves to wake up naturally,your cor body temperature actually starts to increase again. Hence that three part so of stanza, that you need to a warm up, to cool down to fall asleep. You need to stay cool to stay asleep. And then you need to reverse engineer that trick, which is you need to warm to wake up
Renowned sleep scientist Matthew Walker discusses everything you need to know about what a better night’s sleep can do for your life, and how to prioritize and perfect the way you sleep. Walker breaks down how to identify when you need more sleep, how to deal with insomnia, the best devices to track your sleep, and some unconventional sleep hygiene tips, including why it’s never a good idea to count sheep. Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California-Berkeley, and is also the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. He has published over 100 scientific research studies on the impact of sleep on human brain function, and he is the author of the 2017 book,
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. --
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