90 minute cycles, need 5 cycles = 450 minutes or 7.5 hours
Sounds can help getting us to sleep.
Be punctual about bedtime.
Don't skimp on sleep.
I have been interested in sleep since the 2nd grade. One day, it seemed like my brain wasn't working. The word "apple" completely stumped me. I knew I knew it the day before. Mom said I had gotten little sleep because of family events. That was my introduction to the importance of sleep. Later, I read how the other side kept our heroic and innocent spies awake to torture them and extract information. In the real world, I could see which of my 5th graders got to be on time and which didn't by the quality of their papers.
A couple of years ago, I found "The Universal Sense" by Seth Horowitz, PhD, a neuroscientist and sound expert. That lead me to Sleep Genius, the app and Sleep Genius the web site and company. I was suspicious of the power of sound but then I thought of what happens when I heard a Strauss waltz well played or some words of love spoken in my ear. I admire the Schubert adagio D956. The power of sound shows in the 2005 movie Joyeux Noel, when a woman's voice floats out over the WW I battlefield.
Sleep Genius plays music that is supposed to lull a person to sleep and about 7 of 10 times, it does for me. If I wake up at 4:30, I realize I need another of the 90-minute cycle of sleep, snuggle back down and get it. My sleep and my nights seem to make more sense when I think in terms of 90 minute cycles but it has take a little work to feel comfortable with such hour and a half periods.
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Bill
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