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Overcoming insomnia, with Prof Guy Leschziner

Instant Genius

CHAPTER

How to Tell if You Have Paradoxical Insomnia

A lot of people experience what we turn paradoxical insomnia, which is when they feel that they have slept very little or slept very poorly. But a recording of their brainwaves shows that they have actually slept a very good amount. This phenomenon is responsible for many of the weird and wonderful things that we see in clinical sleep medicine like sleep paralysis or hallucinations at night. If you are unable to sleep when you want to sleep and waking up feeling very bad then it suggests that you have a problem with your sleep.

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