Weird Sleep Question

Jeff said:

In a couple different spots Ian King has mentioned an odd thing
regarding sleep. Whenever he talks about sleep requirements, he
usually makes mention that it is best to get however many hours of
sleep you need earlier in the day. By that I mean, he stresses
specifically that falling asleep before midnight (specifically
midnight) is more beneficial than falling asleep afterwards. He makes
mention that the couple hours of sleep before midnight are more
beneficial. What the hell is he talking about?

"Q: I have always heard that 1 hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2
hours of sleep after midnight. What is the basis of this old adage?
Sleep is an active, highly organized sequence of events and
physiological conditions. Sleep is actually made-up of two separate and
distinctly different states: 'non-rapid eye movement sleep' (NREM
sleep) and 'rapid eye movement sleep' (REM sleep) or dreaming sleep.
NREM sleep is further divided into stages 1 - 4 based on the size and
speed of the brain waves generated by the sleeper. Stages 3 and 4 NREM
sleep have the biggest and slowest brain waves and it is hard to wake
people up from Stages 3 and 4 sleep. Large spurts of growth hormone are
secreted during stages 3 and 4 NREM sleep. Because of these and other
characteristics of stages 3 and 4 of NREM sleep, this type of sleep is
thought to be particularly restful. If we go to bed at, say, 10 or 11
PM, we will perceive that our most restful sleep occurs before
midnight. However, the main point is that the type of sleep that we
believe is most restful occurs in the first few hours of sleep --
whatever the clocktime of the sleep might be."
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joanne

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In a couple different spots Ian King has mentioned an odd thing

regarding sleep.>

Hey dumbass, The lion king was a f'ing cartoon. You take advice from an
animated lion?

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Weird Sleep Question>

Only weird people have weird sleep.