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Oh, and did you get turned away from a panel you wanted to go to because the room filled up too quickly? Please add a comment in the ratings in the app to let DragonCon know. This could help us get a bigger room in the future so that we don’t have to turn anyone away.

Here’s a description of that study! www.livescience.com/real-time-co...

Panelist @sadiewit.bsky.social’s lab teaches people to lucid dream. Then, they can ask them questions while they are in REM sleep and the sleeping subjects are able to answer via their eye movements.

The difference between light sleepers and heavy sleepers is more about the timing that you go into deeper sleep cycle stages. Some people go into those deep sleep stages quicker than others, but everyone goes through lighter and heavier sleep phases every night.

Don’t worry too much about your sleep tracker data. There is a big disconnect between reported amounts of sleep and actual amounts of sleep. Your subjective feeling of being well-rested is a better measure of your sleep quality than what any tracker may say.

Why is it so hard for some of us to get up in the morning?
This may actually be differences in sleep rhythm, not amount of sleep. You may be waking at a time that is too early for you. Or, it could be conditioning — some people need more time to actually get out of bed in the morning.

Another way to help you fall asleep is to make sure you are waking up at the same time every day. If your sleep patterns are extremely different on weekends, it causes the equivalent of jet lag when you have to get back to your regular schedule on Monday.

One of the best ways to fall asleep is to make sure your bed is only used for sleeping and uhhh… adult activities. That way your body will associate your bed with sleep, which helps you feel sleepier every night when you get in bed.

My apologies if I seem to be skipping out on live-posting some sections of this panel. It’s Monday of dragoncon — even here on science track we can only manage so much.

Melatonin probably doesn’t do much to help people sleep — but if you feel like it works well for you, that’s because the placebo effect can work extremely well for sleep! Though melatonin has side effects and interactions with some medications, so please be careful if you take it.