Andrew Huberman· PhD
There are also data showing that positive anticipation of next day events improves depth of sleep & shortens sleep need.
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There are also data showing that positive anticipation of next day events improves depth of sleep & shortens sleep need.
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positive anticipation of next day events reduces your sleep need and improves the quality your sleep just being excited for the next day can make it such that the 5 hours you got is sufficient
if you positively-- they've done studies-- he has a study that shows that if you positively anticipate next day events, your sleep need is actually reduced pretty substantially.
it really does seem to be that if you are excited about your life, you can get by with less sleep because the amount of quality sleep you get is higher.
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