A scipe scientist wants to know, why do some people make weird noises as they're falling asleep. What can we do to stop them from doing it, or what can they do to stop doing it? It o on tough one. So when my favourite weird noises at night is a phenomenon called catatrenia, which is a prolonged expetory moan. There's also soniloquy, which is sleep talking, which can be sort of gibberish, orn, fully formed sentences that people have no idea what they're talking about. A these things can be treated. Often there's underlying sleep problems that are causing them. If you can figure out the underlying sleep problem
Have you listened to Part 1 yet? No? Go on, git. Go do that.
Now if you have, this Part 2 is a bonanza of problem solving from neurologist and somnologist Dr. W. Chris Winter. He'll cover: if you should be taking sleep supplements or pills, sleep talking, apnea, why sleepiness makes us hungry, narcolepsy, the difference between insomnia and sleep deprivation, how to lucid dream, the dangers of shift work and some tactics to lull yourself to dreamland without any medications. ALSO: I share a family secret: my mom's insomnia buster -- newly dubbed the "Sleepy Fancy Nancy" -- that has literally never failed me.
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