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Whether or not you're currently struggling with sleep, understanding what normal sleep patterns look like can help improve your own cycle.

Understand each of the stages of sleep, your sleep cycles, and how to make the most out of every night’s rest for better health.

Sleep cycles are part of our internal biological clocks, the regular patterns of brain waves while we sleep. So what are the five different stages of sleep?

A sleep cycle is a progression between the stages of deep and light sleep. A newborn baby’s sleep cycle falls into the two categories of REM/active and NREM/quiet. In the first few months of life, babies’ sleep is split nearly evenly between REM and NREM sleep stages. As a baby grows, their sleep cycles progress and they begin to spend less time in REM sleep. As a baby grows, their sleep cycle looks more and more like an adults’ sleep cycle.

🌙⏰ 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤-𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐧𝐢𝐚? A recent study found that 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 (TMB) can create a negative feedback loop for those with insomnia: ❌ Watching the clock makes it harder to fall asleep ❌ Frustration leads to more clock-watching ❌ Increased likelihood of reaching for sleep medications To break the cycle, researchers suggest: ✅ Removing clocks and phones from the bedroom ✅ Trying cognitive…