Andrew Huberman· PhD
But one of the reasons why we have such a grogginess, it's called sleep inertia when we wake up out of the wrong state which is deep slow wave sleep, is because-- I liken it to like a washing machine cycle.
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But one of the reasons why we have such a grogginess, it's called sleep inertia when we wake up out of the wrong state which is deep slow wave sleep, is because-- I liken it to like a washing machine cycle.
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that starts to happen around 30 to 40 minutes for most people but by cutting your nap off at 20 minutes you still get these nice benefits from a good chunk of healthy non-rem sleep but you're not going so far into the cycle so deep into your
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