Dr. Micaela

But if you usually don't have crickets and then there's a cricket who escapes or gets into your home or into the walls of your home and is like making its little chirping sound, then, yeah, that's going to drive you up the wall because it's not common.

That's novelty.

OK.

Oh, also, if something's happening while you're trying to fall asleep and it evokes a lot of a strong emotion in you, that will also alert your brain.

Because if your emotions are giving you feedback that there's something happening in your environment that is either a threat, kind of going to

interfere with something, et cetera, et cetera, then your brain is like, wake the fuck up.

Right.

We got it.

We got to do something.

We got to handle this.

You can't just like go to sleep.

Um, and so anytime you start to, um, I have a sister, well, it's my brother and my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law gets like rageful.

My brother snores, my brother snores most nights.

Um, and so she's very angry at him because he's ruining her sleep.

Now, um,

It's not all on her.

He does need to like, you know, I don't know, put those strippy things on or something like that.

But her being angry about it is absolutely making things worse.

And I'm not blaming my sister for my brother snoring, please.

But.