How Long Does It Take to Fall Asleep?

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Is it possible to tell the exact point someone starts being asleep? Or is it just a gradual blurring of lines into unconsciousness? You can see it on a sleep study. So when you look at the brain activity, what you start to see is a slowing of the brain activity. The eye movements, the character has wakefulness, become slow and rolling. That's how we score sleep. And I thought this meant like I have finally gotten my shit together. But Paul, it looks like it just means we're old and marching ever closer to death.

Have you listened to Part 1 yet? No? Go on, git. Here's a link to it! 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.

And I am currently spending time with my family after my dad’s emergency brain surgery a few weeks back, but put a few extra notes and updates on how we’re doing. Thanks for all the thoughts, friends.

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