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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Need Less Sleep?
I wonder if my brain is deceiving me because it feels like I'm getting a whole extra amount of focus for free. It's not as though your sleep need has decreased it's that your brain is hit the overdrive switch to say we need to keep you awake because food is in short supply. So subjectively you feel as though I don't need as much sleep because I'm wide awake and those two things are quite different. But we are at least understand the biological basis of what you're describing.
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