186. The psychology of sleep

The Psychology of your 20s

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Mental Health, Self-improvement, Fitness, Education, Relationships, Science, Social Sciences, How To, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Sleep is one of our most vital functions but how many of us actually know that much about it, the links to our physical functioning, mental health, relationships and overall wellbeing. What about some of the strange experiments they've conducted to investigate dreams or how long we can go without sleep? In today's episode we take a deep dive into the psychology of sleep, including:

Why we need sleep?
What actually is REM sleep?
The Russian Sleep Experiment
Sleep debt
Sleep as a form of self sabotage
Revenge bedtime procrastination
The impact of blue light and screens in the bedroom
How to improve your sleep hygiene and more

Listen now for when you want to maximise your shut eye!

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