Dr. Matt Walker

You will wake up just a few minutes before your alarm.

It's stunning how many people will say, I had this big flight the next day.

And you almost know I'm going to wake up two minutes before my alarm goes off.

Why?

Because your brain has stayed in this shallow state of anticipatory anxiety and you don't get as much deep sleep.

And we've now demonstrated that.

We know this.

When you have that low level of anxiety, the depth of your deep sleep is not as deep.

You don't get the good.

So again, not to be trying to dictate what people do, just be aware that when you do create that behavior and that regimen, it becomes almost like a knee-jerk sort of trained habitual response.

There are, and I suppose this would be, you know, I know our friend Petra Teer has spoken about medicine 3.0.

I think this would probably be sleep optimization 3.0.

What is coming down the pike?

What is in the research and I think, you know, could make it to market or has made it to market, but yet we're still right on the cusp?

We've seen, we again in the Royal We, have been able to augment human sleep in at least four different ways.

There are methods for electrical brain stimulation.

There are methods for acoustic stimulation of sleep.

So electrical stimulation of sleep, acoustic stimulation of sleep.

thermal manipulation of sleep, and then finally kinesthetic manipulation of sleep, meaning movement-based stimulation.

And maybe I can just go into each one of those.