Peter Attia· MD
what I find amazing about that by the way is how slow that frequency is you're basically you could be this could be only happening once a second right that's right and that's why it got a terrible rap for 20 or 30 years because it actually looked not dissimilar to some aspects of coma that's how slow those brain waves were so sleep scientists were you know understandably fooled into thinking that deep sleep was a time when the brain essentially was just doing nothing now we realize the exact opposite is true because it's during that deep sleep that you get essentially information transfer within the brain it's a file transfer mechanism and the way to think about this is let's see it's like a long wave radio if you're in the city you tune in to FM which is shortwave radio you can pick up a bunch of signals then the further you drive out into the desert let's say here in California you just lose those channels because then range from the tower is so short that you just lose that range but if you go on to sort of you know the long wave radio stations you can still pick up stations for hundreds of miles why because the carrier frequency of those radio waves is much slower and so the distance over which you can transfer information is much further deep sleep is a brain state of long distance information transfer