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
