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What Influences When We Wake Up Or Sleep?

If you find going to sleep a breeze then you have probably not put much thought into what influences when we go to sleep and when we wake up. If, on the other hand, you have trouble going to sleep, then you have probably lain in bed for hours pondering that exact question. Interestingly, there are two...

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What Happens With Our Brain When We Sleep?

For most of our history, humans have thought of sleep is a time when the brain is turned off. That when we went to sleep our minds went blank and mental activity stopped. It certainly appears that way when you look at someone who is asleep and it is easy to see why the ancients thought this way. However,...

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What Happens When We Sleep?

Pretty much every single night, we all go through an incredible change: we go from being fully conscious and spend hours each night in a semi-conscious states, drifting through a strange dream state, moving through cycles of brain activity. As we wake in the morning, we barely remember the hours we have...

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What Are Sleep Patterns Affected By?

In the past few decades we have come to learn more about sleep. One of the major discoveries was that rather than being a single period of identical activity, sleep is characterised by a number of different periods and patterns. The two major divisions are between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and...

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Overcoming Sleep Deprivation #3

For some people, getting to sleep can be a total nightmare, an awake nightmare. Insomnia and sleep deprivation can become cyclical and cumulative, meaning they become harder and harder to break, but do not despair, there are ways for you to break the cycle, there are ways you can fight back and finally...

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Overcoming Sleep Deprivation #2

For some people, getting to sleep can be a total nightmare, an awake nightmare. Insomnia and sleep deprivation can become cyclical and cumulative, meaning they become harder and harder to break, but do not despair, there are ways for you to break the cycle, there are ways you can fight back and finally...

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Overcoming Sleep Deprivation #1

For some people, getting to sleep can be a total nightmare, an awake nightmare. Insomnia and sleep deprivation can become cyclical and cumulative, meaning they become harder and harder to break, but do not despair, there are ways for you to break the cycle, there are ways you can fight back and finally...

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Nodding Off - Why Do We Do It?

For most people, falling asleep is just a natural part of life, something that comes fairly easily, for others, it can be a real struggle, something that defines their life, so what makes us fall asleep, or not, as the case may be?The major influence is the levels of neurotransmitters in two specific...

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How Your Bedroom Affects Your Sleep

Your sleeping environment can have a massive effect on the quantity and quality of your sleep. There are several key variables that make a major difference, most importantly light, noise and  temperature. As long as you are aware of them and make an effort to control these variables you can ensure...

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What Are Sleep Patterns Affected By?

In the past few decades we have come to learn more about sleep. One of the major discoveries was that rather than being a single period of identical activity, sleep is characterised by a number of different periods and patterns. The two major divisions are between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and...

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How Humans Sleep

We have an interesting and varied sleep. Even though most of us look pretty much the same all night, there is actually a lot going on beneath the surface. In 1968, two researchers called Allan Rechtshcaffen and Anthony Kales discovered the different sleep phases and stages. Through a number of different...

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How Does The Brain Switch From Awake To Sleep?

Sleep is something pretty much most of us take for granted, in fact, most of us never even think about it most of the time, but when you do start to think about it, you realise what an amazing process it is. The brain suddenly switches from being wide awake and conscious into this unusual semi-conscious...

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