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> When you wake up, you'll feel more rested than if you woke up at the midway point in one of the cycles, even if it is longer. Do you mean at the end of a cyc
by kbenson 4y ago
> When you wake up, you'll feel more rested than if you woke up at the midway point in one of the cycles, even if it is longer.
Do you mean at the end of a cycle and before another one starts, or halfway through a cycle? I'd heard the former, not the latter.
- aliqot 4y agoI'll do my best to explain, it does look a little confusing in retrospect. Let's say for the sake of argument that these cycles are 2 hour blocks: 0-2, 2-4, 4-6, and so on. If you sleep 0-2, and wake up at the end of that cycle during the wakeful period between 0-2 and 2-4, you'll feel more rested and have a faster bootup time than if you do 0-3 and wake up midway through 2-4 interrupting a period of deep sleep. You may notice more feelings of fogginess, agitation, and sleepiness, and a longer bootup time as your brain is shifting gears metaphorically speaking. When you first fall asleep, you move through a few stages of sleep until you reach the end at the REM stage. Interrupting this stage is what causes the issue for me. I wake up still dreaming or speaking as I wake up.