Andrew Huberman· PhD
the lack of REM sleep tends to make people emotionally irritable. It tends to make us feel as if the little things are the big things.
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the lack of REM sleep tends to make people emotionally irritable. It tends to make us feel as if the little things are the big things.
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the lack of REM sleep tends to make people emotionally irritable. It tends to make us feel as if the little things are the big things. So it's very clear from laboratory studies where people have been deprived selectively of REM sleep that our emotionality tends to get a little bit unhinged. And we tend to catastrophize small things.
And that almost always maps back to a deficit in REM sleep. So REM sleep seems to be where we uncouple the potential for emotionality between various experiences.
And indeed, the REM deprivation study show that people become hyper emotional. They start to catastrophize.
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