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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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Can You Oversleep?

I'm often asked whether or not we can get too much sleep. I want to get back to the contour of a perfect night's sleep, but I'm intrigued by this idea that people can't over sleep. Is there anything to that? And how does one determine how long they should sleep on average? On average, yeah. But most people, if they consistently deprive themselves of sleep so that they're only sleeping four, four and a half hours a night, build up cognitive deficit in their sleep.

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