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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

CHAPTER

The Complexity of Sleep

Sleep in human beings is broadly separated into two main types. We have non-rapid eye movement sleep or non-rem sleep and we have rapid eye movement sleep, also thought of as dream sleep. And your brain goes on this incredible rollercoaster ride throughout the night. Different stages of sleep perform different functions for your brain and for your body at different times of night. They're all necessary. Otherwise, Mother Nature would have removed anything that was unnecessary long ago.

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