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How Do You Know When You're Awake?
Falling asleep sounds like such a passive process, sertanly not. It involves cascades of so many different neuro transmitters. We start releasing histomen around the time that it goes dark, and that starts to make us drowsy. And then there's seratona and all sorts of other chemicals involved in the process of falling asleep. So i always just find it so fascinating that histomine makes us drowry. And we have to take anti histomines if we have, like, mosquito bites or itches or whatever. Those bites always get reactivated around sunset because of actually what the body's doing is preparing us to fall asleep. I love,