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- Sleep experts Girardin Jean-Louis and Rebecca Robbins debunk 13 more myths about sleep. They talk about the effects of hitting snooze, how to deal with jet lag, and the importance of sleeping positions in getting a good night’s sleep. They also explain the dangers of sleep apnea - in fact, it can be life-threatening if left untreated.
Jean-Louis is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami. His research primarily focuses on sleep and circadian health. He was previously a professor of population health and psychiatry at NYU Langone Health. You can learn more about his past work here: med.nyu.edu/faculty/girardin-...
Robbins is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate scientist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her work involves designing behavioral interventions to improve sleep and circadian health. You can learn more about her work here: www.rebecca-robbins.com/
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0:00 Intro
0:42 It's better to be a morning person than a night owl
1:30 Sleeping positions don’t matter
2:31 The cure for jet lag is not sleeping all night
3:25 Hitting snooze will give you extra meaningful rest
4:34 Napping makes up for lack of sleep at night
5:03 Taking melatonin will make you fall asleep immediately
5:56 If you pulled an all-nighter, sleep as soon as possible
6:51 Dreams only last for a few seconds
7:47 If you snore, you have sleep apnea
8:56 Insomnia means you can't fall asleep
9:34 If you can fall asleep anywhere and at any time it means you're a "good sleeper"
10:26 More sleep is always better
11:11 Nightmares and night terrors are the same
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"Wake up as late as you possibly can" is the only part I choose to take away from this video.
🤣🤣🤣 Same
Funny joke. You are also the reason why doctors hate their job they learn to tell important info and yet you immaturely reject for "comfort"/freedom, when your comfort gets less and less because of lack of sleep then you will regret not fixing your sleep schedule earlier now of course if you ain't a student or don't need to wake up early then sure stay up later and wake up later to get enough sleep
@@meh6513 it not that deep brudha
@@meh6513 it’s a joke
@@scrums4748 And? Nothing wrong with throwing some facts out just cause somebody made a stale joke.
Average person: "He died peacefully in his sleep"
Sleep doctor: "He suffocated to death due to untreated sleep apnea"
Good one here
Underrated comment!
Average person: This comment made me laugh
Laugh doctor: .
I remember not being able to breath in a dream one time and it was the farthest thing from peaceful. Since then I never sleep on my back.
why did i picture it in my head lol
There is also paradoxical insomnia where someone thinks they’re awake but are actually sleeping most of the night
I get this so much, it’s very annoying, I am sleeping full 10 hours but feel like I’m awake the whole time
@@numodumo6094 I’m so sorry to hear that, you should see a sleep specialist to figure out why that is happening!
It feels nice my brain completely memories a you tube video and then when I sleep I get the dream then when I say to myself in the dream it’s time to go sleep I wake up then sleep again
Oh so thats maybe why hours go so unusually fast sometimes at night
I feel like that a lot. My sleep is definitely screwed and I don’t know how to fix it. When I wake up I don’t feel like I just slept usually like you said, I also wake up either to an alarm or whatever reason before I get up and I go back to sleep and that’s the only time I can or ever will dream; after I wake up and then fall asleep again. At my old job I use to have to drive peoples cars and one time I almost fell asleep at the wheel on the highway in someone’s car. I couldn’t believe it afterwards cause I’m the kind of person who would do anything to not mess up someone else’s belongings such as someone’s car. I’m always extra careful.
Thank you for debunking the myth about night owls. For years, I have been patronised for sleeping and waking up late. This has made feel bad about myself and I ended up internalising the notion that I simply have bad habits or a bad lifestyle, which inside, I truly did not believe about myself. This society IS in favour of early birds and it will always be a continuous struggle for night owls to navigate and compromise their schedules and plans. In an ideal world, our society should function to serve both kinds!
I definitely resonate with this. I even reached a point where I felt guilty sleeping in on weekends
I felt the exact same way. Still do sometimes. I get the feeling that others in my life think I’m lazy because I sleep till noon most days. But then I’m up later than them and getting work done at hours when they just don’t see it.
I was lucky to have a second shift job for 30 years!
@@Couchlover47 But they are. A victim of a screwed up work culture. One of millions actually. Many workplaces enforce unreasonable working hours for nigh owls to handle. Like, why do you need me to be at work at 8:00am even though I'm not seeing any clients, I'm not opening the shop or taking any phone calls at that time anyway? If anything, night owls are much less productive in the morning, so you're actually sabotaging your company if you expect them to be up early for no good reason. I'm a night owl myself and when I worked for a company like that, I'd always be slow, groggy and unpleasant in the morning, and I'd only start waking up after 11:00am or so. Thankfully I left that company and found a job where I can come in at 10:30, eat breakfast, catch up on emails and start work at 11:00. My productivity increased through the roof. My boss is clearly happy, because I'm constantly getting praise and bonuses, I'm happy, the customers are happy, everyone's happy. And all it took was shifting my work schedule to my natural waking hours. But a lot, and I mean a LOT of employers still don't understand that. They think "If I'm up, you're up" and won't hear an argument to the contrary.
@@B3RyL Not to mention school. I'm a night owl as well, and when I was in school I wouldn't be tired until around 12pm.
My school would start at 7:30, but I had to get up around 5:30am to have enough time to shower, eat, get fully ready, and walk 20 minutes to school. I need about 8-10 hours before I feel well rested, so most often I would fall in the habit of snoozing the alarm a lot, rushing to get ready just so I could be on time, and I would sleep in class a lot. It really killed my productivity, what little I had with my ADHD Inattentive, which I was led to believe is fake and a sign of laziness.(definitely not fake). It was super stressful and demotivating, but it really wasn't my fault. I really wasn't remotely tired until midnight. In fact, it's 4am right now as I'm typing this.
And now, after all those years of being forced to work against my natural schedule, I'm tired all the time and have issues feeling well rested even when I get the correct amount of sleep. It's very annoying that we have to conform to an early bird society
they're so experts at sleep that their voices almost made me want to go to bed
I literally almost fell asleep watching this
I'm going to sleep watching this.
Exactly!
You probably aren't sleeping enough
@@pinchpeak5203 who is tho
“The ideal time for napping is 20 minutes,”
Me who sleeps for 5 hours and calls it a nap 🧍🏻♀️
I do the same.
Lol word
same! i feel attacked xD
20 minutes is about the time it takes me to realize that I have to pee and that I can't nap before I do, and then nap-time is over.
Understandable have a nice day.
I really wish this idea of night owls being a real thing was more common knowledge and widely accepted. As a night owl, my ideal wake up time is 8am and then get ready slowly and start work around 10:30-11, finish work around 6-7pm, have dinner, and then do some hobbies until midnight/1ish. But with full time 9-5 work, I have to be up before 7, and have eaten breakfast and be out of the house by 8 to start work at 9. It really doens't work for me and I genuinely believe it's lead to me being depressed and unable to relax because I always feel like whenever I get up late that I'm wasting time.
i feel you
Its only been a day that I realized genetics can define night owls and larks, it was enlightening, I have been living my life thinking being a night owl is the trait of a lazy person or less qualified. I feel so much better now. I feel you.
I don't think that's an example of a night owl .
I’m not sure that if for you waking up at 8am is ideal then you’re a night owl. To me it’s more like waking up at 12 pm, and then being awake till 3-4 in the morning.
thats not a night owl, i sleep at 3-6 am and wake up at around 1-3 pm
These two brings me at peace. The man sounds so kind and gentle I’d feel like I can trust him. And the lady’s tone and energy is literally like a sunshine. They are both amazing and did an amazing job!
This woman needs her own sleeping podcast. Her voice is very soothing.
Her voice sounds like she's doing a commercial for a medicine brand. "Talk to your doctor about x today."
and the dude looks like far cry character
Her voice reminds me of Ivanka Trump. 🙄 Like she’s overly faking it, maybe just another trust fund baby. Not hating, just sounds forced.
Your pfp omg
Matthew Walker x Rebecca podcast
You can tell that she gets enough sleep everyday
She seems so well-adjusted that it makes me kind of angry.
@@wordsmith451 this comment is absolute gold
but he doesn't, look at his eyes.
@@wordsmith451 I think she may also live in UTAH.
DEADDDDDD.
Me: Yes, yes I absolutely agree.
Also me: *watching this at 3:34 am with a terrible ADHD sleep cycle*
I feel the pain 🥺
haha what a funny comment, this doesnt apply to me! looks in the corner of my laptop .... realizes it is 1:45am ... oh.
@@PinkieSugar It happens to the best of us 😂
5:16 here
3:41am 🙈
I'm a nurse, on a rotating roster ( a random mixture of nights, evenings, mornings, never the same days off) hearing about how important sleep, and regular sleep schedules is, hurts me on a spiritual level
God bless you, thank you for helping others !
May god bless you with peace and enough rest.
That's banned in my country because it's so detrimental to health. I hope you find a better schedule:(
I feel you. I work in the 911 service.
@@helmaschine1885 Your country banned the police and medical emergencies services too?? Because those also need workers 24/7.
Rebecca sounds like a professional narrator
She should do a sleeping podcast. Her voice is so soothing
Yes! I want to listen to her podcast!
@@fmsneuroscientist me too!!
Ikr! She sounds like the one in psych2go
I thought the same thing 😊
These people have the most relaxing voices of all time o my LORD
I could fall asleep listening to them
the woman especially would make a great asmrtist!
I would totally watch sleep science ASMR
theory: in order to be a really good sleep scientist, you have to take classes on how to have a calming and relaxing demeanor and speech pattern
@@sethescope I never thought about that actually
As someone that is unable to produce melatonin and has been taking it my whole life (14 years) I can tell you that it’s extremely draining, also for your mental health. I now take 3 mg a night at 20:00/8 pm and it can make you feel groggy, sleepy and sick even. Prioritize sleep, people. I try to do slo but it’s kinda impossible for me
Me and you both I’ve been a terrible sleeper since a toddler, i think it’s done a lot of damage in my school/working life etc. it’s currently 6AM and I can’t sleep
As a long sleeper myself, I found it interesting that every time they mentioned "here's the average, but it you need this amount that's ok too", they always went down in hours (aka short sleepers), but never up (aka long sleepers). Not that it's all that important, I just find it to be much more of a detriment in society than being a night owl/lark, you know? Like, I feel many of the negatives of being a night owl (which I also am) can largely be smoothed over in modern society, but regularly needing 10-12 hours of sleep a night is still seen, not only as "lazy", but also as being a sloth in a hyper speed world.
I know right? I'm also night owl. I also expected them to say something about the people who sleeps more. And they said if you fall asleep right away, it means you don't get enough sleep. But in my case, eventhough I sleep for 9-10 hours, I still will fall asleep right away as soon as I get into bed🤔 I never get enough sleep. So what is our problem?😕
Agreed.
TRUE. I need about 9 hours a night, more if I'm sick or really run down. I don't sleep with an alarm clock anymore because I go to bed every night at the same time, and I consistently wake up at the same time every morning after a full 9 hours.
Agreed. People with chronic illnesses and/or physical disabilities, like myself, also need more sleep simply because our brain and/or our body is working more / using more energy due to the illness and/or disability. Additionally, though -- I do recommend fellow long sleepers get assessed for sleep apnea, as the need for extra sleep despite sleeping more than 7 hours could have a more physical cause. & it's better to be safe!
I am not sure if 12 hours is really normal if you are healthy, fit and have no other conditions that your body is working on fixing.
9? Sure, that seems to considered still in the range.
But over that? I would guess that more often than not there is a different reason than biorhythm for that. Sickness, Fitness issues, to high cortisol levels, depression, etc plenty of things that might stress your body more and make it want more sleep.
I desperately need these two to tell me its gonna be alright on loop
Right? These voice could stop wars 😅
@@NadiaSeesIt true that
Some people are meant to be in their profession and these two have the voice to be in this path. I love it
I think they were purposefully talking gently either because of who they encounter everyday or because you might be watching this when you should be sleeping lol
Nah she sounds too fake nice, like she's talking to a child all the time
@@PalpatinesPlumber projection
She has such exaggerated mouth movements making smacking ass noises every word
@@PalpatinesPlumber She has a wonderful soft, but clear voice, everything is pronounced neatly and it's really calming but it also raises respect. She sounds more like a great educator - a knowledgeable college professor invested in sharing the knowledge.
Seeing that picture of sleeping positions where the person has a cushion and/or pillow under or between their legs does help make feel a tad more normal with me stuffing an extra pillow between my legs when I sleep. Really helped to keep my legs from 'falling asleep' because of poor blood circulation around that area.
If you're a side sleeper, absolutely put something between your legs if it feels more comfortable. You can end up with poor sleep and chronic hip problems if you don't. I'm slender, I don't have thunder thighs, so I need support there. If I can't have it, then I have to sleep on my back, or do the 3/4 stomach/side combination, which isn't great for neck and back.
Bottom line is, humans are built for bipedal locomotion and height. Everything horizontal is an afterthought at best.
I wake up around 11am-12pm to get ready for work.
I clock in by 2:30pm
I clock out at 11pm
I get home by 11:30pm
I stay up until at least 4am-5am
Repeat.
I love how informative and inclusive this was for early bird AND night owls! Soothing and reassuring!
Edit: does any one else needs background noise when sleeping?
I like to use rain sound with thunderstorms on youtube.
I prefer to sleep with as little noise as possible. The quieter the better. Also I get up at 11 am
Clock in by 1:15pm
Clock out at 11:45pm
Get home at 12:40am
Stay up until 3:00-3:30am if I stay up later I am too tired the next day.
I also use background noise. My great grandmother used to have this sound machine for sleep and when she died my mum took it. I started using that when I was probably about 10 to help me sleep. I would play the brook sound on it. Then it broke and I started using CZcams videos. For the past few years I’ve been playing this one video of an open window in New York at night. I like it for multiple reasons. One, it drowns out my tinnitus. Two, it hides the bumps in the night so they don’t scare me. Three, I find it calming hearing that there are other people nearby when I’m trying to sleep so if anyone tried to murder me other people would hear. Four, I often can’t sleep because of my anxious thoughts so I like to imagine I’m this random person in New York and I imagine what my room looks like. It also just seems to soothe me.
@@rachelcookie321 can I get the link to this? I need so much noise to fall asleep. Used to listen to trains, rain, thunderstorms, binaural beats, alpha waves, fans, coffee shop ambiance, etc and they all work at first but then they stop working after a few weeks and I have to find something else. Silence is too loud for me to sleep lol
I need so much noise to fall asleep. Used to listen to trains, rain, thunderstorms, binaural beats, alpha waves, fans, coffee shop ambiance, etc and they all work at first but then they stop working after a few weeks and I have to find something else. Silence is too loud for me to sleep lol also what kind of job do you have because I would love this schedule. The only time I enjoy mornings is when I've been up all night and I watch the sunrise. I feel so alive then and productive and then I'm asleep by 7 lol
@@emmontesantilli4351 did it work? I posted a comment but sometimes comments with links get removed.
As a night shifter, I can confirm this world is absolutely built to force a morning-day productivity schedule. What a world it would be if everything was open all the time and the people who were more productive later could work those shifts. Imagine what a boost in productivity we'd see across all types.
It's so sad for us. I'm also a night person, and the only night jobs are cash registers or factory line work. I tried to apply for factory ones but they told me I'm grossly overqualified and told me to "go get a high paying desk job", but working in the day is so horrible for me. I'm really tired and I feel kinda groggy the whole time. Covid lockdowns have been the best thing that happened to me because we get to work at home I've been napping in the day and doing my work at night when my colleagues are asleep. They start work in the morning and everything is done. lol.
Contracting work, you can work whatever hours you want as long as you get the work done and make a few meetings here and there you're good to go. Also, positions like a security guard, nursing, doctors, paramedics, police etc all have night shifts.
@@KryaDiere not necessarily true, there are a lot of overnight shifts in IT. i currently work as an overnight cybersecurity engineer and i would not trade it for a day shift.
As a teen I was a night person, but as my circadian rhythm "grew out" of it (teens just naturally get tired later) I became a morning person. Not entirely, I still find myself the most mentally productive towards the end of the day.
The reality is, the majority of people are "morning/day people" due to well, biology, meaning the majority of society will accommodate that.
Having more businesses open at night would force more people into night shifts. There's already quite a few jobs out there that are overnight, shift work jobs for those types of people. There isn't a "need" for an increase in jobs for night owls, because the majority of adults aren't like that.
@@KryaDiere the office I work in has night/evening shift workers, 4-12. gotta find a sector that operates 24/7 (like trades and logistics, shipping never stops)
Her voice, tone, pronunciation, annunciation, crystal clear & smooth delivery is just perfect.
No likes, no buts, no umms, no filler words.
Just flawless.
I wud pay thousands to take speech and voice lessons from her.
Go to Harvard and study medicine
But when she talks you can hear all the spit on her mouth and her voice is nice but that’s all I can focus on
I think being a teacher who gives lecture is what contitutes in this level of speaking skills.
I don't find her voice perfect at all, because of the sibilant. I hate when people talk like that, it's driving me crazy.
The lack of no filler words may be a result of this being edited/retakes.
it cannot be stressed enough how beautiful their voices are!!! they should do sleep stories, that would help my sleep onset insomnia 😂
her calming voice puts me to sleep
Found the fix to my snooze problem; set it to every 20 minutes so I can take at least 3 ideal naps in the time it takes me to get up. Thanks!
No lie, I already have three alarms set at 20 minute intervals and I was like “you know what, I guess I’m good then.”
Genius
Yo fr
Ha! Genius!
😂😂😂
As a person who sleeps almost every night for his entire life, I approve this message.
Thanks for the likes :D
That’s some dedication right there
Wow what a streak
Wow I appreciate your commitment!!
who are you master?
almost?
I didn't think there were identifying characteristics for sleep researchers, but I 've changed my mind; they fit the profile. I feel like both of them just radiate gentle, cozy vibes: perfect for bed-time sleepiness.. and their research.
Prob my top 3 FAVORITE video on this channel of all Times. Thanks for inviting those 2 amazing people for the video on the field of expertise they have. They are both stunning.
I like how harmonious and in-sync these two are.
Yes
these two are cool, like the other side of the pillow
I think there's more going on here
It's so satisfying
They absolutely got enough sleep, that’s why!
Imagine her reading you a bedtime story
That will be awesome
Simp
@@bobtheagent9087 omg bob shut up
I’d fall asleep right away
@@HzizsVynryn yeah same
Good to know that my routine of always leaving waking up until the absolute latest possible time so that I get more sleep is actually a GOOD thing 😂
Example: I have work at 8am I know it takes 25mins to drive there and that it only takes me 10mins to get dressed etc. So I set my alarm for 7:10 which allows me ten minutes to wake up and check my phone etc then get dressed grab a muesli bar for breakfast and then travel to work!
Bleh, screw that. If I have to be somewhere at 8am, I'm up at 6am so I can have 2 hours to ease into the day, eat a nice breakfast, take a long shower, or just generally chill. I used to do the last minute wake up throw myself into the shower and drive half asleep to work thing, but it sucks.
It's a blessing to hear this, thanks for sharing 🤩🖖🏾
I like these two a lot. A bunch of the other experts they've had on here sound so snarky and smug when they're debunking things, and it really puts me off. These two were so nice!
I agree
The others are snarky because they don't get enough sleep
@@monicawalls8184 I was literally just about to write this 😂👍👍👍
Agreed
If you spend a day as a medical professional you'll see where they're coming from
It's interesting how dreams are non-linear. For instance, I've had dreams where the sound of the alarm was incorporated in the dream but not as an ending. It was some place in the middle.
Me too like I can literally hear the conversation going on in my dream and its not even the end of the dream
He said dreams are a reflection of our day. Every single dream I can remember is about fighting to the death. I don't get it.
@@willek1335 it could be that you're stressed about something going on with you
I was dreaming that I was at my dentist office arguing with my dental hygienist and dentist, and all of a sudden I could hear a moose calling. My mom was staying over, and snoring next to me. Her snoring sounded like a moose call, and it invaded my dream lol 😆 I teased her pretty hard the next day lol
As a lucid dreamer, I can assure you that dreams are weird and wonderful things... I can also assure you that the human mind does NOT really process time in any consistent manner...
Your alarm goes off while you're dreaming... Your brain CAN take that sound and incorporate it anywhere it decides "to make sense of it"... AND even that does NOT have to make any kind of logical sense to you or me. Remember he said "Dreams are emotionally substantive, so you'll tend to remember things like a loved one dying horribly"??? Well, emotions don't always make logical sense either...
Falling asleep in front of a TV playing has taught me, that there's no legitimate sense of time in my mind... I can wake up to the very conversation I thought I was having in my dream HOURS AGO... AND then sit there wondering what the HELL was going on in the "Idiot Box" when I was chasing some horrible monster between then and waking up... Time doesn't mean much of anything, so trying to track the TV programming or trying to make any sense of dream incorporation from the outside world influences is best faced as a playful pass time unless you LIKE driving yourself batty.
SO even that lucid dreaming is being able to "realize the dream is a dream" and take agency rather than wake up, it doesn't mean you entirely control all aspects of the dream.
Think the episode of HouseMD when House gets shot at the beginning of the show, because he's wrestling through a differential diagnosis (like usual) but {spoiler alert} it's only at the end of the show that he realizes he's dreaming and can force himself to wake up and demand a katamine treatment to help the pain in his leg... It's not quite that out of whack, because (as you get "better skilled") you really CAN do some crazy things in dreams that you'd ordinarily never even think to try... BUT most of the time, in the dream, even though you know it's YOUR dream, your brain has already created and inherently "bought" the reality as-is... Whatever physics you've got in there, you still have to conform... You may or may not be able to fly unaided, and it's not universal (for instance)...
Of course, when I can fly (like Superman) in a dream, it's an awful lot of fun! (among other things... tongue firmly planted in cheek)... ;o)
Thank you for this! Very informative and love your personalities!
Love how both nod and agree with each other, great video guys!
I want him to read a book. Like old history book. His voice is so soothing
Everyone is commenting about Rebecca’s voice, I’m glad to see some love for Girardin too!
Yess! His voice is very soothing. I don’t like how she pronounce “s” haha
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asmr plz dadddy
I think they both have soothing voices but he doubles down with that delightful melodic accent *chefs kiss*
“Avoid alcohol and stimulants, don’t hit the snooze button”
You might as well ask me to sprout wings.
Buddy you spoke my mind better than I would have
As someone with ADHD and depression, and works the night shift, I'm 100% screwed.
@@feraynironmane8101 ADHD night-shifter here. It at least lets me have music on to ground me and block out other distractions while I work. Whiskey puts me to sleep and coffee wakes me up (and focuses me, hello stimulant).
@@laner.845 plus, the dosage is easy to understand. If the last dose wasn’t enough, try another one!
@@wordsmith451 Some nights it's a one-coffee night, sometimes it's a two-coffee night. Some mornings it's a one-whiskey morning and others it's a two-whiskey morning. ^_^
I grew up with a condition called ‘Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome’ so have gone through many sleep management practices. I remember once being subscribed some very strong melatonin supplements. It really messed with my mental alacrity the following day and was definitely too high of a dose. Less can be more. Don’t over do it. You want the minimum that can work for you and focus on practicing good ‘sleep hygiene’.
It shocks me how unregulated melatonin is in America. I live in New Zealand and take melatonin every night and I need a prescription from the doctor so I can get it. One time we bought a huge tub of melatonin from America that my dad’s work mate brought over for me since it was cheaper. We stopped doing that because the doses were too high and we couldn’t find one low enough for my prescription. They can get such huge doses so easily!
Never been diagnosed formally, but I've long suspected I've had that. Always been that way my whole life. I've just kind of learned to function with it and it doesn't get in my way (mostly).
I have both those types of insomnia, nightmares, and night terrors. I suffer from PTSD, as well as bipolar and social anxiety disorder. I've read that PTSD causes nightmares and night terrors in all stages of sleep, not just REM. they started when I was a kid, but have gotten worse the older I get. I'm 31. Life is not good to me, so the more I live, the worse my sleep is.
Do a research on EMDR therapy and how you can get it in your country. It is an amazing therapy for ptsd and healing from it!
She has such a soothing voice
Like checkkk
@@jamesvelazquez1004 haha thanks man
She seems kinda fun to be with.
Sounds like psycho to me
right
Yep, I hate when people act like waking up very early is the key to good health and successfulness. If you can't help your schedule then you have no choice of course but if you are lucky enough to choose it, then there isn't reason to force yourself to become an early bird.
I am sorry but, as a night owl, who literally goes to sleep around 1 to 2am, and used to feel more focused at night, feel the great need of changing that. I have done some days of sleeping and waking up early and let me tell you, those have been the best days for me, in energy and productivity. I remember one time I slept three days in a row at 8-9pm and after the third day, even my memory got better. I could remember easily what I did those three days, to the slightest detail, I mean I could remember quite well, compare to when I slept late. I am talking about in summertime when I could sleep the 8 hours no matter what time I went to sleep. Nights are meant to sleep, naturally, our bodies need darkness when tire, and that is at night and we need daylight and sunlight to do things. I mean, the sun is energy, literally. Flowers get it from it, and we get some too. I feel you because I still go to sleep late, but recently I feel my body is begging me to change that. I will listen and act accordingly. Take care of yourself, and I will encourage you to implement what is naturally better, getting ready to sleep and sleeping when is dark outside and waking up when the sun goes up. Tech and human inventions had damaged our sleeping schedules. 200 hundred years ago, not sleeping at night, was not a big problem as it is today. Society was adjusted to what was natural, but now we have disrupted what is natural.
@@luissanchez2428 😴
@@luissanchez2428 TeCHnORoGy BAd
I've been doing an internship for the last 3 months and had to get up at 5:30 am every morning.... I swore to myself that I will never choose a job where I have to get up this early ever again 😂 I can't remember the last time I felt so tired the whole time and it really caused me to have a bad mood😒
@@luissanchez2428 Maybe you are not an owl then? I feel the best when I sleep at midnight or a little bit later and wake up at 10 am. Not when I try to sleep with the sun.
She speaks like shes trying not to wake someone up; so gentle.
I’d like to see what these two have to say on biphasic sleep whether it’s beneficial or not; would be interesting.
Is it me or Rebecca's voice is just crystal clear , loud . She could easily be a narrator or a podcaster or a voice actor or even the next Siri.
Edit:well its just my opinion btw
The American accent is kind of annoying.
It’s creeping me out
5:59 "now hopefully you're not pulling an all-nighter"
Students: haha you bet 🤓
My work flips my schedule all the time.. I have to force myself to stay awake so I can sleep at a time that'll have me get up for work at the right hour. x.x
Literally me watching this at 1am as I finish a 4000 word report😂😂😂
i love the way these two bounce off one another. so much intellect and care in that room
i have sleep apnea but i don’t snore. the doctor conducting the sleep study actually had to wake me up in the middle of the practice because i stopped breathing for more than a few seconds. checking up on yourself is important. my parents would get upset that i would sleep immediately after school but realistically im not breathing at night.
So if it takes you 15-20 minutes to fall asleep, and the ideal nap time is 20 minutes, do you set an alarm for 40 minutes?
No, I think the point of a nap is to not fall into deep sleep and just staying in the 1st and maybe 2nd stages of sleep which take place in those 20 minutes.
If I set a timer, then I can't fall asleep for a nap.
I do this - set an alarm for approx 40mins as I know it’ll take time to settle into the nap. Works for me!
@@jiminsjams8668 It usually takes me at least 20 minutes to fall asleep, even if I am extremely tired... I'm jealous of anyone who can go to sleep fast!
Lately it takes me 1-2 hours to fall asleep, so naps are out of the question. I can't sleep during the day anyway.
Rebecca literally needs to read audiobooks…..her voice is built for narrating
defunitely built for it... definitely
Would be so much help for insomniac
It's interesting what he says about the time zone and start shifting yourself. When I was on MDI, that's what my Endo always said and it helped significantly with my glucose levels when changing time zones.
Night owl here 🙋🏻♀️
I can EASILY stay up until 3-4AM but when I need to wake up early say at like 8am I feel so horribly sluggish and lethargic and it legitimately takes my body about a full half hour to even find any energy to be productive
that makes sense
Wow, I love that they talked about night owls! I always thought I just had bad habits because that's how people around me treated it :o
You're going to experience that attitude throughout your life.
My profession allows me to indulge my inner night owl-even pays higher. When I discovered I like night shift, I realized it had always been true. As a child,we had few restrictions in the summer and I stayed up most of the night frequently.
But even after working nights for 36 years, even my family just don't really believe it's natural. My mother worked nights even longer, but when she retired she immediately began trying to have a "normal" routine. Not very successfully 😁
Yeah, there's a lot of stigmatisation out there of night owls. It's amazing the mental gymnastics people go through to claim with a straight face that I'm 'lazy' for sleeping 6.00am-2.00pm, when them sleeping 10.00pm-6.00am is perfectly fine.
@@BlueTressym there's potentially some detriment on a psychological level by seeing so little sunlight.
If you are a teenager, it’s even more important that you actually fall asleep later around 11-11:30 pm
@@npip99 you can always use sun lamps :)
The saying may be "the early bird gets the worm," but I always add, "yes, but the early worm gets eaten!" It's a matter of perspective, see? 😆 (I am indeed a night owl; mornings are terrible... lol)
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And the second mouse gets the cheese.
@@dontrend5956 Hahaha! Love it!!! 🤣😂
@@dontrend5956 💀💀💀
We are the bird not the worm lol
I travelled East with a 10 hour difference and landed in the morning. I walked around all day and at around 8pm local time I couldn't I went to bed. I woke up at a little after 6 and had no jet lag whatsoever so I recommend that if you land early, enjoy the day. I have no tips for what to do if you land at night but hope this helps
I loved this. It was informative and interesting and they presented really well together.
What are the possibility of having them read us a bedtime story? Their voices have a very soothing effect
Ma’am you could have told me that my moms life saving operation costed 10 million dollars and I’d still fall asleep listening to you talk.
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This is very helpful and well presented. I had no idea you were supposed to take melatonin 3-4 hrs before bed. I have been taking it directly at bedtime and it feels like it doesn’t help.
I have a variety of sleep issues. Sleep onset insomnia, sleep maintenance insomnia, delayed sleep phase disorder (basically programmed to be a night person in a daytime person’s world- so I feel like I have permanent jet lag) and I had obstructive sleep apnea, but since I’ve started losing weight, that’s cleared up a lot (which is good, because there was one night I was constantly waking up choking and I was terrified of literally dying in my sleep). I also get sleep paralysis. It had been years since the last time I dealt with it, but recently, it happened like three times in one week- the kind where you’re trying to wake up and you feel like you’re going through the motions of getting out of bed but your body isn’t actually moving, or trying desperately to wake up but you feel trapped like the blanket suddenly weighs a ton, or your arms and legs are like Thor’s hammer. Or you think you’ve successfully moved and woken up, only to realize you’re stuck in another dream where you’re trying to wake up. If you get stuck in a position where its hard to breathe, its really scary. I try to sleep on my side with pillows supporting me in a specific way- I started doing that to help with the apnea, but then I realized that if I get “stuck” asleep, its a more comfortable position to be in cause I don’t feel as pinned. Anyway… Watching this after a night with zero sleep, and a day with no nap where my body has decided that even though every fiber of my being is exhausted, my brain didn’t want to sleep. Its probably just trying to get back on track, and 1AM is better than 6 AM I guess… I freaking hate my relationship with sleep.
I also have issues with sleep paralysis, and it mostly shows up during the transition between summer and fall (for some reason, I'm not sure why). What usually helps me is turning on a noise machine, usually wave sounds to help me regulate my breathing and stay asleep. I feel like it lulls my brain to a complete rest instead of it waking up before my body does. Maybe that will help you!
God bmess you, pray God and then the sleep paralysis will disapear
This video was so helpful!
I really appreciate how they debunk these myths without talking down or insulting the people who may have grown up with them
It's a much more kind and gentle reeducation, and you genuinely believe that they just want people to have the healthiest sleep they can
Would absolutely listen to them give a full lecture on the science and study of sleep - they're quite engaging and I feel like I would learn a lot
Shut up
God bless both you and whoever is reading, dont forget Jesus loves you. He died on the cross for our sins and rose three days later. Have an amazing and safe day!
@@user-oh6xq8lx3z 🧢
It’s because they are highly educated individuals and not people that make their money making content
World need love
Her voice is so relaxing
I find it really annoying, especially the weird sounds she produces with words that contain an 's' or a 't'.
Then go out with her
If I had to sit through a class at university with her as the teacher, I'd probably phase out in less than 3 minutes.
@@50-50_Grind same, its so American, its annoying 😂
She scares me, and I don’t know why.
this looks really useful. thank you
For any suffering from insomnia:
I was an insomniac from my late teenage years through age 39. I'd say any two out of three days I was sleep-deprived.
Around age 39, I started noticing a pressure in my chest...not painful exactly, just pressure. It came and went, and eventually I picked up a pattern. It was most prevalent after I ate, but it definitely wasn't heartburn or anything else that felt digestion related. I then further noticed it was especially after I ate sugary breads (cakes, pastries, etc.). So, I gave up food with high amounts of sugar in them for a week, just to see if the pressure stopped. It did. But what was really interesting is that toward the end of that week, I was falling asleep within 30 minutes of going to bed, and staying asleep.
In the last 4 years, I've eaten maybe 10 servings of high-sugar foods. Zero nights of insomnia. It has absolutely been worth cutting out sugar to never again feel the despair of sleeplessness. I figure I'm not the only one out there who had this issue.
EDIT: It's worth mentioning that I still drink black coffee and sugar-free sodas. Caffeine was definitely not causing my insomnia.
Those “few second” dreams can feel like hours though…relativity is real
I swear to god I’ve had dreams where I will live out every single day in a five year span it’s very disorienting. Those last like an hour for me irl.
Probably why anesthetic feels like it takes two seconds for you when it can last hours, sleep is really weird!
I have the opposite where I accidently fall back asleep for like an hour and I only thought it was like 1 minute
Inception
@@GamerGirlKat94 I love and hate these dreams. I had one once and only once so far, where I lived out a majority of a life. Waking up to my alarm in my own body was SUREAL it took me all day to orient myself and convince myself I didn’t just time travel back and it was just a long ass dream. Crazy how dreams work.
These two are great! They compliment each other really well & they both have such soothing voices!
You know this is cap
@@2muchNATSU what cap
A long time ago... I finished my plant pathology thesis and remember not sleeping and working on the end/bulk for 3 days in a row without sleep. Worst days of my life... the day after, once it was done and submitted... One of the best and proudest days of my life
I've tried to tell people how I wake up in the morning feeling very well rested and wide awake and a lot of people find it hard to believe.
The number one thing that helps me, is going to bed and waking up at the same exact time every single day no matter what. I wake up every single morning with absolute ease feeling wide awake because of this and I love it. So from 9:00 p.m. to about 4:00 a.m. I won't let absolutely nothing disturb this time frame.
I used to wake up like that, but terrible working schedules ruined that. Now I cant even fall asleep when I know I have to get up early in the morning.
Ok grandma
Expert: "You need to sleep in a position that aligns with your spine."
Me who has double scoliosis: 👀💦
Hahaha!! Yeah, good luck with that, eh? I've had the corrective surgery, but I still have a double curve (well, triple if you include my neck), they're just _much_ smaller. Even still I have to use a ton of pillows in order to align things as best as possible to sleep- certainly never going to be straight, though! Lol
I hope your scoliosis doesn't cause you too much trouble- cheers!
I was always a massive sleep wriggler ever since I was a baby
Cut to 25 year old me learning I have mild scoliosis and going "that would explain why my sleep quality shot through the roof once I slept with my legs elevated and tilted through the pelvis..."
Wait, so Is you spine like a snake?
@@shivertron Yup.
I feel you. I've tried a bunch of different positions but my scholiosis gives no shites lmao
I would love to have Rebecca as a mom she seems so reassuring and calm 😂
yes!
Mummy*
@@user-cg3fj3ij8d mummys are dead
Yeah I’d call her my mommy too 🤤
This is a compliment but imo it's a weird compliment
this lady would be great for audio books. listening to her speak is just so relaxing. :D
This is super helpful!
These two are such a mood and the mood is PEACE.
I'm a night person, I can't function in the morning but give me something to do in the evening and I'm super focused.
Owls unite🦉. Don't let those larks moralise sleep schedules!
its funny cuz about 50% of the population is a late day person, yet everyone is forced to wake up so early to go to work
Me too. Hello fellow night owl.
Owls unite! 🦉
Same here, I’m forever hitting the snooze button or sleeping 12 hours on the weekend cause mornings are just soooooo exhausting 😪I like getting up late and staying up late !
Now I have some of the answers for my sleep habit.. thanks so much!
Thankkk youu!! Sooo helpful!!
This is what I was taught: healthiest sleeping schedule is to go to sleep as soon as you're feeling tired and wake up at the same time every day.
Easier said than done. I tried that. I’ll get tired about 9pm, be in bed by 10, can’t fall asleep until 2am. Wake up at 8am. Same thing again. But I’m not working right now. When I start working I think I’m going to age rapidly 😢
After starting to work night shift I kept being told it would mess up my sleep health, but now I wake up naturally without an alarm every day 4 hours before work and I feel good about it. I get better sleep than a majority of the day people I think
True. And people forget sometimes that some of us have no choice than to work night shift. How do you think your amazon orders arrive so fast? And public health, the mailing, people work 24/7. Some people gotta do it, you know. So this dogma of "If you don't sleep during the night your life is fucked up", I don't care at all. Society simply just wouldn't function correctly if everyone slept at night. Most people tend to forget it.
@@Narusasu98 the thing is that your body needs natural light and vitamin D. Our bodies are designed to be awake during the day, sleeping through the whole day can actually mess up your health. No one thinks your life is fucked up if you work night shift (that I know of), people know someone has to do it but people are still just concerned about your health. I know someone has to work night shift but I’m still worried about their health. Everyone I’ve talked to who works nights has said it affected their health. Until recently, I was sleeping during the day and awake during the night and it definitely affected me, my body was craving sunlight. It would be the middle of the night and I would be crying because I was confused because it felt like it should be sunny but it was only dark since it was night.
I work in aviation and most of my shifts are at night. I have never had a regular schedule, to begin with. I am on shift work for 20 years +. It is slowly biting me in the ass and I have issues with sleeping after the night shift and I snore as if I am destroying the rain forest. This video was very educational.
A life saviour talk
thanks ❤️❤️
I'm a night owl and I keep trying to switch my clock. I can do it with determination, but it takes one night of staying up late and I'm back to being a night owl. I could easily stay up till 4am, but I make myself go to bed around 3. Funny though I just looked at the clock and it's 3:30 am! LOL
Honestly, if you want to be more or a day person, cool shower in the morning. Warm shower in the evening. Make sure to eat meals timed to it as well.
Omg this! I have the same exact problem. Just one late night will screw up a few days streak of "normalcy". Also I find myself most productive/active during 1-5am
@@MilkTeaLessSugar welcome to my side of the world. lol If it wasn't for my partner sleeping I would be vacuuming/cleaning as well. haha
This is 100% me!
@@juniemarin welcome to my side of the world. haha there is something about those late-night hours that are so peaceful though. :)
Rebecca's voice is the kind of voice I need to hear to make me feel that everything is gonna be okay even though I'm in the middle of war and I'd believe her instantly 😂😂😂
Great talk!
Been a stomach sleeper all my life. My mom told me that even when I was a baby, she would put me on my back and I’d flip onto my stomach. Somethings never change.
I am the same! I’ve always read/heard it’s the worst for your back but it’s literally the only way I can sleep
I was a stomach sleeper until health problems started appearing, now I prefer to dleep on my right side with a blanket between knees.
Yeeah stomach gang UNITE
@@francesco5254 Yo yo stomach fist buuuuuuuuump.
@@SkippyJon15 It's actually good if you do it the right way. I use to sleep with the back sligtly tilted on the side and supported by a folded knee. It's difficult to explain but that position gives your back just the perfect natural curvature it should have
Rebecca has such an amazingly soothing voice, i would love to learn more of whatever she has to say if she has her own youtube or podcast
imagine her with an ASMR channel and it's just her talking
man I loved this episode, both of their soothing voices kept me glued to the vid 😮💨🌂
Man I love these two especially Rebecca her voice her tone everything is perfect
Rebecca Robbins has an absolutely amazing voice and diction that have awed me. God, I can listen to her on 7/24.
7/24?
@@akiyachef_5213 7 hours per day because he needs to sleep obviously. Only 24 days, maybe he has another thing to do. 🤣🤣
@@akiyachef_5213I thought it could be 24/7 but I was not sure, and I did not want to check it. So, I just wrote it the way we say in my native language - 7 days, 24 hours-.
@@sertankacar8594 oh ok……I didn’t even thing of that. I get it now
Same
My son had night terrors all his life till he was 8. It affected his behaviour during the day but it turns out he actually had swollen adenoids and tonsils. :/ only diagnosed at 8! Argh! Still feel bad about that- we went to so many doctors over the years and I took a random article I read about the symptoms of enlarged tonsils in children to get his fixed. His sleep has been great since then!
How did you get rid of it?
I'll add one more thing: my body uses nightmares to wake me up if I have to go to the bathroom. 9 out of 10 times when I wake up from a nightmare, it's because I have to go pee.
Love these vids.
My mother who is age 83 still, falls asleep at 5 a.m and wakes up at 2 p.m. It was a problem especially with our dad and we learned as children to never expect her presence at any events or appointments early morning.
I have what my dad and my uncle had - DSPD, delayed sleep phase "disorder". Left to my own devices, the time at which I sleep and wake advances by 4 hours per day. I'm on a 28 hour day. I only get 6 sleep/wake cycles per week. It makes regularly scheduled employment problematic to say the least. I can do 7 but only if I stick to going to sleep in the afternoon.
As a kid we never knew if pops was sleeping, or even home because he worked so much. So part of the morning routine was to go to the peephole in the front door and see if his car was in the driveway. Dude would disappear for days at a time, napping in his office, then come home and be out for a solid 20 hours.
They are both so cute, I could listen to them speak for hours!
Right! Their professional chemistry is stellar.
i want them to read my eulogy
"Ideal sleeping temperature is around 68 degrees"
A Floridian that gets cold at 75 during the day: You what?
As a fellow warn humid climate dweler, I didn't think it would be such a low temperature until i did the convertion to celcius! Omg its so cold!! 🥶 How do you not get sick!!? The lowest i can go is 75. That's just insane
@@AliCirilo Really? That is way too hot for me. I love cold weather. around 60 to 61 degrees is perfect for me. I get hot real easy and real fast.
@@AliCirilo Because people's bodies climatize according to their environment.
68°F is still on the hot side for my Floridian fiancé. He actually does better than me in the chilly Dutch weather that I grew up in 😂
No matter the temperature for some reason I always sweat while sleeping
I like all the info represented here. As a sleep tech I'd like to add that snoring should be a little more focused on. Snoring doesn't always you mean you have sleep apnea but it's part and parcel of the same issue; instead of a complete cessation of breathing (sleep apnea) a person is only partially blocked, which results in the sound produced trying to pull air through sticky, upper airway tissues. I've seen planty of people who only snore but that snoring interrupts their sleep every 20 seconds to 2 minutes and I've seen people with severe apnea who don't breathe for a solid 2 minutes at a time (all night, every 2 minutes) but surprisingly don't have related arousals (they've gotten extremely use to their breathing pattern). So sometimes snoring can be almost as bad as having the actual definition of sleep apnea. Basically, if a person snores on a regular basis, I would not look for other signs, I think that might be sign enough to have a sleep study.
extremely helpful.
Professionals explaining the necessity of proper sleep
*Me at 4AM asking myself if I should even go to sleep*
the answer is
lets watch next video
btw its now 4am here
Her voice sounds like a narrator on Headspace.... It's so relaxing!😴
I really want to hear them answer these questioned with the perspective of referring to a sleep disorder like narcolepsy because while this advice is helpful for most everyone, I cant say that going to bed earlier would do anything for my wakefullness during the day. When left unmedicated without any alarms I have managed to stay asleep for 27 hours straight and would have slept more if I didnt rush to take my meds during a bathroom run
Great content!
this has helped me in ways i didn't even realize i needed, i never would have realized SO many of my issues are very likely influenced by my sleeping difficulties i've had since childhood or possibly infancy.