Скачать или смотреть How to recover sleep lost — with sleep specialist Stephanie Romiszewski

We feel that we need to recover when we haven’t slept enough. That we need to recover like for like… Four hours recovery sleep for a four hour sleep debt.

Actually, it’s not that simple…

Firstly, you’re never going to recover some of the stuff you lost from not sleeping.

Lastly, if you try to recover from sleep debt too much consistently over time. For example, you don’t think you’re sleeping enough at night so you spend a lot of time outside of your usual sleep opportunity, perhaps by going to bed early or by lying in or napping…

If so, you actually start desynchronising from your natural sleep wake cycle.

This leads to confusing your brain and building a pattern we often see as chronic insomnia.

So, sleep debt is not quite as simple as we first thought…

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0:00 - Can we recover sleep debt?
0:34 - What we feel about sleep debt
0:48 - Can we recover the sleep we lost?
1:19 - What happens if we are regularly trying to recover sleep?