Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you put your head on the pillow and you turn off the light and within a minute or so you're dead to the world and you're gone I'm exactly I'm worried that you're a carrying a sleep dead now
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
if you put your head on the pillow and you turn off the light and within a minute or so you're dead to the world and you're gone I'm exactly I'm worried that you're a carrying a sleep dead now
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If you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow, you probably waited too long.
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