A lot of us think that a good night’s sleep means you wake up rarely, or even better, not at all. A new study suggests that might not be the case. The study (conducted in mice, which have similar sleep mechanisms to humans) showed that neurologically, it’s likely we wake up very briefly about 100 times per night, without noticing. And that might be a good thing.
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