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Throughout the waking day, human beings build up a stronger and stronger drive for sleep.
The first has to do with the homeostatic drive for sleep at night, determined largely by the number of consecutive hours that we've been awake.
As the homeostatic drive dissipates midway through the sleep episode, the circadian drive for sleep increases toward morning, maintaining our ability to obtain a full night of sleep.
This circadian pacemaker sends out its strongest drive for sleep just before we habitually wake up, and its strongest drive for waking one to three hours before we usually go to bed, just when the homeostatic drive for sleep is peaking.
Fewer and smaller caffeine doses reduce the anxious and excitable peaks and the valleys of tiredness across the day, and make it easier to respond to our internal drive for sleep at bedtime.
Thus, if you take a 7 pm flight from New York to London, you typically land about midnight in your home time zone, when the homeostatic drive for sleep is very strong, but the local time is 5 am.
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Some sleep disorders arise when the body's drive for sleep--known as the homeostatic drive--and the environment are out of sync.
Motivation for feeding must be balanced not only with homeostatic drives for sleep, thermoregulation, and drinking, but also with drives for mating and fostering offspring.
Melatonin does not increase your sleep drive or need for sleep.
Even so, it seems clear that as the authors suggest, Rye is part of the sleep homeostat and is necessary but not sufficient for sleep drive.
This fits the profile for sleep drive, which is expected to be high at the end of deprivation, but then dissipated over the course of rebound sleep.
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