> Well, it’s often due to a phenomenon called sleep state misperception. When you’re in lighter stages of sleep, it can sometimes feel like you’re still awake,

> Well, it’s often due to a phenomenon called sleep state misperception. When you’re in lighter stages of sleep, it can sometimes feel like you’re still awake, because there’s still thought activity occurring in the brain. I learning about this, uh, experientially. My wife snores. Many times, once she starts sawing wood, I will poke her and tell her to roll over. Very often, she'll tell me "I'm not snoring, I wasn't even asleep." Hmm... > There are so many horror stories out there about people who developed a benzo addiction or did crazy things while they were on Ambien. One of the real challenges about being inundated with information on the Internet 24/7 is that there is a fundamental bias that we have a really hard time compensating for: No one writes down boring stories. If you judge the world based on what you read online, every Ambien pill summons a visit from the Ambien walrus and setting your kitchen on fire. Every trip to Central America ends in horrid digestive disease, bot fly infections, or both. Every politician all the way down to your local city council member is a corrupt sociopath, and every cop a malevolent scumbag. The reality is that all of those stories get written down because they are interesting, which tends to imply that they are unusual, which means they are the exact opposite of being representative. But it's really hard to internalize that fact.