Andrew Huberman· PhD
the reason I find this interesting is because I'm going to guess you are having sleep likee States but you are not fully asleep how would I Define a sleep-like state what we've learned is that your brain the way it sleeps isn't on mass it's not as though your entire brain sleeps different territories of your brain can sleep in different ways and what we've also known and there's some argument even individual brain cells seem to have a period where they go into sleep and these individual neurons will start to show what look like these beautiful big powerful deep slow waves in terms of their firing rate at least in terms of those neurons firing away I bring this up because if that means that your brain can have local sleep rather than Global sleep if you are in global sleep you're out like a light you are a sleep but perhaps these Lial States the reason that they give these benefits is because you are still awake not Global sleep so if you're in global sleep you're asleep but you're awake so you're not in global sleep but you may be having local sleep