Andrew Huberman· PhD
if I were to deprive myself of REM, I would be hyper emotional, not maybe not as settled with the kind of experiences of my life.
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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.
if I were to deprive myself of REM, I would be hyper emotional, not maybe not as settled with the kind of experiences of my life.
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what all of this research has taught us in some ways is that it's almost as though REM sleep and again it's hyperbolic is the difference between sanity versus Insanity it's the thing that separates those two
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