Andrew Huberman· PhD
the cerebral war is going to be won and lost on average for the average adult every 90 minutes and then it's going to be replayed every 90 minutes and that creates the standard cycling architecture of sleep
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the cerebral war is going to be won and lost on average for the average adult every 90 minutes and then it's going to be replayed every 90 minutes and that creates the standard cycling architecture of sleep
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So you'll have non-REM, and out of non-REM you'll have stage one, stage two, and then what's called slow wave sleep. And then you will switch over into what's called paradoxical sleep or REM sleep, and you will go through five of those cycles over the course of the night.
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