Struggling with insomnia , or is it just in your head? Many people who believe they haven’t slept a wink could actually be suffering from paradoxical insomnia, a unique disorder where people sleep normally or close to normal, but think they were awake the entire time.

In a case study detailed in The Guardian, Hannah Scott, a sleep researcher at Flinders, tested paradoxical insomnia in a woman who fell into a deep sleep for a considerable period but claimed she couldn’t sleep at all. For the purpose of this experiment, the woman was connected to equipment measuring her brain activity, eye movement, heart rate and muscle activation. While the woman fell asleep 30 minutes after closing her eyes, the usual time duration during such experiments, she has no memory of falling asleep at all and

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