30 Minutes of This Feels Like 8 Hours of Sleep
Presenter:
Dr. Andrew Huberman
Time:
14:56
Summary
Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) refers to techniques such as yoga nidra or certain forms of meditation that allow the mind and body to deeply relax without actually sleeping. These methods can help improve focus, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being by promoting restorative relaxation.
Transcript
I want to, like, talk kind of shift gears for a minute and talk about, you know, like I didn't get a good sleep, I don't know, for a couple nights in a row. And I, you know, have deadlines and things to work on. And was feeling very a motivated, as you like to say. And so I was, you know, of course, deep in some of your stuff, and came across this non sleep, deep rest. And I had never heard of it. I mean, I'm sure it's, you know, become popular since you've talked about it. But I would love for you to talk about the non sleep, deep rest, nsdr, and you know, so sleep is important for replenishing dopamine, and I didn't, I didn't get that replenishment of dopamine. And so some tools that people can do. Again, we're talking about behavioral tools that we've just mentioned a few.
But this, this non, this non sleep, deep rest is interesting to me, and how it can help replen replenish the baseline pools. Yeah. So I first thought about and learned about something called Yoga Nidra. Yoga. Nidra means yoga.