Sleep Pressure and Wake Drive

The most cited sleep publication ever is from Alexander Borbe, he's a Viennese officer who introduced a completely world changing model called the two process sleep and wake model. And what that model basically represents is that during the day, from the moment you wake up until the moment you next have an opportunity to sleep, you are building up sleep pressure. So we don't get, however, if you think about it, you don't wake up in the morning and get sleepy and sleepy as the day goes on. That's not how that works. We'll come back to polyphasic and by modal sleep in a little bit because that's interesting, but it's a little bit

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