Andrew Huberman· PhD
I go through periods where six hours is plenty as long as I’m getting to bed early enough.
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I go through periods where six hours is plenty as long as I’m getting to bed early enough.
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Similarly, if you're a night owl, you're somebody that really prefers to go to bed around 1:00 or 2:00 AM and wake up around, let's say, 10:00 AM, if you take that equivalent amount sleep and you go to bed earlier, you're going to feel not so good.
for many people who are early to bed, early to rise types, if they go to bed around 9:00 PM, 9:30, and they only get six hours of sleep, they feel great. Whereas if they get the equivalent amount of sleep but go to bed at 11:00 PM or midnight, they feel lousy.
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