Sleep Basics
Two things decide when sleep comes easily. One is how long you have been awake, which builds a pressure to sleep across the day. The other is your internal clock, which decides when that pressure is allowed to win. Almost every word people use about sleep — need, quality, stages, debt — describes one or other of those two systems. This hub defines them plainly, because the rest of the site assumes them.
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