The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Alcohol and will come onto this blocks your REM sleep you can build up such a hunger for REM sleep that the brain says well tonight I'm gonna forego the non REM sleep I'm just gonna go and feast on REM sleep straight away there's hysteresis in the system maladaptive ly so that's a bad sign when you get hysteresis like that
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if you are horrifically rem sleep deprived or chronically sleep deprived occasionally you can make the transition straight into rem sleep we see this in people who are abusing alcohol heavily who are alcoholics alcohol and will come onto this blocks your rem sleep you can build up such a hunger for rem sleep that the brain says well tonight i'm going to forego the non-rem sleep i'm just going to go and feast on rem sleep straight away
there's hysteresis in the system maladaptively so that's a bad sign when you get hysteresis like that that type of pressure
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