Description

We often talk about the amount of sleep individuals need creates confusion for insomnia patients. In this episode we dive deeper into this concept with a way in which to think about sleep need. In this episode we will:

• Revisit sleep need 
• Understand why 8 hours is not right more many individuals
• Touch on the complicated nature of determining how much sleep one needs to sleep
• Define the "Good Night Rebound Bias"
• Learn how perception impacts sleep
• Describe how sleep journals can be made into more powerful tools for sleep need
• Learn how to calculate a Internight Sleep Variability Score

Produced by: Maeve Winter

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Thanks for listening and sleep well!