Your Brain Has A Sleep Switch (Do THIS To Turn It On) : 1380
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Your brain has a built-in switch that controls deep sleep but for most people, it’s turned off.
In this video, Dave Asprey exposes the hidden factors blocking your deep sleep. He shows how small changes to posture, meal timing, and lighting can reactivate your brain’s sleep control center so you sleep deeper, recover faster, and wake up refreshed, all in 6.5 hours a night.
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Timestamps
00:00 – The Hidden Sleep Switch Nobody Talks About
01:35 – The Root Causes of Bad Sleep
02:13 – The Invisible Force Ruining Your Sleep
03:48 – The Worst Sleeping Positions (and Why)
04:30 – Correct Setup for Side and Back Sleepers
06:23 – Why Food Timing Destroys Deep Sleep
08:29 – The 3-Hour Rule
09:33 – The Circadian Rhythm Problem in Modern Life
11:30 – The Brain’s Master Clock
12:30 – Mimicking Nature with Morning and Evening Light
14:20 – Proof That Light Manipulation Works
15:05 – How to Reset Your Circadian Rhythm Step-by-Step
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| 1:03.4 | Your brain has a switch that controls deep sleep. And right now, it's off. And that's why you |
| 1:09.4 | toss internal night. You wake up at 2 a.m. and you feel exhausted even after eight hours in bed. And for now, it's off. And that's why you toss internal night, you wake up at 2 a.m. |
| 1:11.5 | And you feel exhausted even after eight hours in bed. |
| 1:14.4 | And for years, I had the same problem, like five minutes per night of deep sleep. |
| 1:20.0 | I tried expensive supplements and sleeping pills. |
| 1:22.9 | Nothing worked. |
| 1:24.1 | In fact, over the last two decades, I spent about two and a half million dollars |
| 1:29.4 | reversing my age and working on solving some of our biggest problems, including sleep. And now, |
| 1:35.3 | I sleep six and a half hours per night, but I get 90 minutes of deep sleep and 90 minutes of REM, |
| 1:40.3 | like most people don't get an eight hours. It's because I discovered a sleep switch that no doctor ever told me about. |
| 1:46.5 | And once I learned how to flip it on, I started to sleep like a baby and I could go to sleep whenever I wanted to. |
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