Sleep
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She sleeps with angels way up high in the air
She sleeps with angels, she got angels in her hair.
They call her Gabrielle, from the way that she sings
Oh lover come, you ought to get you some wings.

She sleeps with angels up in the sky
Sleeping with angels you can't help but get high.
When you bag gets heavy baby, lay down your load
Get on your hands and knees and do like you been told.

You can ask for more, or ask for less
Or you can just sleep forever in that big feather bed.
With the angels in their long white robes
Sleeping with Jesus Lord, sleeping with jove.

Sleep with the angels, mama never look back
Sleep with the angels while the sky turn to black.




You can sleep under ladders, on the tracks of a train
But sleeping in the clouds won't keep you out of the rain.

Overall Meaning

The song "Sleep" by LAB is a tribute to Gabrielle, who is referred to as an angelic being. Gabrielle is represented as someone who can sing in a way that captivates and inspires the listener, like an angelic choir. The lyrics "She sleeps with angels way up high in the air" and "She sleeps with angels, she got angels in her hair" reinforce her association with the ethereal, divine realm.


The song's mentions of "getting high" and references to angels suggest that the singer is encouraging the listeners to aspire for spiritual heights. The chorus mentions the idea of "sleeping with angels" repeatedly, placing emphasis on the power and divinity that this could bring. The singer then goes on to mention different ways of sleeping, including lying down under ladders or on train tracks, before ultimately concluding that "sleeping in the clouds won't keep you out of the rain".


Overall, the song is a celebration of the ethereal and divine, urging listeners to reach for the higher realms to attain a sense of peace and fulfillment.


Line by Line Meaning

She sleeps with angels way up high in the air
She rests with celestial beings in the sky


She sleeps with angels, she got angels in her hair.
She sleeps next to angels and is surrounded by their divine presence.


They call her Gabrielle, from the way that she sings
Her voice is angelic, so much so that they liken her to the angel Gabriel.


Oh lover come, you ought to get you some wings.
If you want to be with her, you need wings to fly up to where she sleeps with angels.


She sleeps with angels up in the sky
She sleeps with celestial beings high above the earth.


Sleeping with angels you can't help but get high.
Sleeping with these celestial beings is an uplifting experience that fills you with joy.


When you bag gets heavy baby, lay down your load
When life becomes too burdensome, take a break and rest.


Get on your hands and knees and do like you been told.
Accept that you need rest and a break, and take it without resisting.


You can ask for more, or ask for less
You can ask for what you want or need.


Or you can just sleep forever in that big feather bed.
Alternatively, you can take an eternal rest in the cozy embrace of a large bed.


With the angels in their long white robes
As you sleep, angels will be with you all dressed in white.


Sleeping with Jesus Lord, sleeping with jove.
Sleeping with these celestial beings is like sleeping with gods- Jesus and Jove (Jupiter).


Sleep with the angels, mama never look back
Sleep with these divine beings, and don't look back at the past.


Sleep with the angels while the sky turns to black.
You can sleep next to angels, even when everything around you is dark.


You can sleep under ladders, on the tracks of a train
You can sleep in unconventional places.


But sleeping in the clouds won't keep you out of the rain.
However, sleeping in the clouds won't protect you from the rain.




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Written by: PAUL DURHAM

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Simmol3

My cheat sheet from this:

- Light
- Sunlight in first 30-60 minutes of waking
- Look at or near the sun as close as it doesn’t hurt
- If it’s sunny this could be 5 minutes. If overcast 10. If heavy cloud 30.
- Need to be outside ideally, not through a window
- If no light available, selfie ring lights are a decent substitute
- It’s a cumulative effect, so if you don’t get enough one day make up for it the next day.
- Aim for at least 80% of days
- Sunlight in eyes when setting.
- This helps signal to your body that it’s the end of the day.
- Also protects somewhat against the negative effects of artificial light before bed.
- When sun is down
- Do not use bright artificial lights of any colour
- Put lights as low to ground as possible
- Use as little light as possible (moon or candle light best if possible)

- Exercise
- In the first hour after waking increases body temperature helping you wake up and set good sleep cycle
- Later in the day will make you fall asleep later.

- Shower
- To increase you core body temperature in the first hour of waking have 1-3 minute cold shower.
- A warm shower or bath for less than 20 minutes will help cool core body temperature.
- Can be used post exercise late in the day to try to negate negative effects of late exercise on sleep.

- Drugs
-Caffeine
- At least 90-120 minutes after waking. This avoid the afternoon crash.
- Then no caffeine 8-10 hours before sleep.
- Alcohol and THC
- Negatively affect sleep quality even if it feels like you get to sleep easier.

- Temperature
- Cool sleep environment about 3 degrees cooler than rest of the environment.
- If you have a cool sleeping environment you can sleep under a blanket and your extremities will naturally stick out of covers and regular your temperature avoiding wake-ups.
- Can be used especially post late evening exercise to help negate negative effects on sleep.

- Catch up sleep
- NSDR deep rest technique.
- Nap at most 90 minutes and not close to bed time
- Do not sleep in past normal waking time more than 1 hour even if very minimal sleep
- Strictly do not have caffeine first 90 minutes after waking, this will disrupt future catch up sleep.

- Having to do things at night like feed baby
- Use dim red light if needed.
- Do not have caffeine , view bright lights or exercise during your normal sleep times

- Other
- Be a nose breather.
- If needed, tape your mouth shut while you sleep (if you don’t have severe sleep apnoea
- You can train more airflow through your nose by doing cardiovascular exercise with your mouth closed. Again, tape up your mouth if needed.
- Elevate the feet of your mattress 3-5 degrees to promote venous return. Not in pregnancy or vascular issues.



Omar Hussam

Did anyone notice how Huberman's delivery is artfully consistent?

-Simple terms
-efficient communication (E.g. use of the word zero-cost to send the point)
-Amazingly repeatitive in nature to the point that I memorized all the key takeaways

- Most importantly, always reminds you that we are humans, saying "most nights" and gives you ways to deal with everyday life

Not judgy, doesn't tell anyone what should or should not be done. He's just there reporting "quality peer reviewed papers"


This content is absolutely high-quality!



aryan

- get sunlight in your eyes as soon as possible after waking up (within 60 minutes of waking) for 5 minutes on a clear day, 10 on a cloudy day and 20-30 on a really cloudy day (increases cortisol early in the day)
- look towards the sun, doesn’t have to be direct
- it is the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness throughout the day and the ability to fall and stay asleep at night
- take cold showers to increase your core body temperature
- cold showers cause the release of adrenaline and dopamine which help wake you up
- exercise in the morning after waking up (increases core body temperature)
- you can consume caffeine 90-120 minutes after waking up (it limits adenosine, hence limiting sleepiness), best to not drink anymore after early afternoon
- eat breakfast in the early morning hours to be more alert in the morning
- eat smaller meals so you’re not full as you will be sleepy after having a big meal
- get sunlight in your eyes again in the late afternoon, when the sun is setting (it’s a second reference point for your circadian rhythm, low solar angle, different wavelength of light as compared to in the morning)
- avoid/dim artificial lights in the evening
- take warm showers at night to lower your core body temperature
- sleep in cooler environments
- don’t sleep in for longer than an hour beyond your normal wake-up time



Justin Hess Real Time Lead Gen

Thanks for this...huge fan of your work in general. The sleep stack has been great for both myself and my gf.

I heard you mention a few times in different podcasts that you read all the comments so I'm hoping this gets through...

I'm a total science geek as well and am just curious if you could dive deeper into the explanation for the additional glycine and gaba to the main sleep stack.

As far as what they are doing, how you came to the dosages and how you do or do not combine them with some of the other stuff specifically etc.

And the differences/benefits of the Pharmagaba over 'regular' gaba.

If one is eating kind of late (I know not ideal) do any of the nutes, especially thinking of the gaba here, need to be taken on an empty stomach for best effect (or any effect at all).

Vs just being digested and used along with the rest of the protein in a meal?

Can you talk a bit more about the potential estrogen issues of the apigenin for the females that are using the main sleep stack of mag/theanine/apigenin?

Thanks again for everything.



John Moseley

Probably worth mentioning again that the episode with Samer Hatar has cured my insomnia. Nothing else, and I've tried plenty, has ever come close, though, I do enjoy the sunset walks I'd already started doing because of this podcast .

In particular, I took a lot from the experiment Hatar described in which a professor and a group of students camped for two weeks and used no artificial light, so they were entirely in tune with daylight and night dark. All their circadian rhythms reset during the trip.

I thought I could do at least a soft version of this and started keeping most of the lights off at night. I found it very restful immediately, like the dark really was giving me a message: 'You've had your day and now it's time to wind down, go quiet and start drifting off to sleep.'

I really enjoy this feeling, which I'd never known before. To give perspective, I was the kind of insomniac who, left to himself, would go 'round the clock: later and later bedtime every night, later and later rising. I could get a decent amount of sleep, but the process was hopelessly impractical and felt pretty awful. These days I can still go to bed on the late side if I want to, e.g. 2am and get up around 10, but I can also go to bed a lot earlier and get up earlier when necessary.

I'm still a little active in the evening with TV and computer, but much less than before, and with dimming measures: for TV I'll wear sunglasses – with brown lenses, which seem to work much better than the greenish ones I tried once – and with 'night light' on on the computer, and the screen dimmed right down.



Gabriel Gheorghiu

@JG129 Hope it improves for you soon. In case it's useful, here's my list of things that I need to do in order to ensure I get good sleep and am highly functional. Mentioning it because I had hectic sleep for years but sticking to these seems to help a lot.

Essential:

Very low, close to zero carbohydrate diet (also helps with my IBS tremendously)

Daily exercise (nothing crazy, at least 25-30 minute cardio daily, and some muscle training every other day, but cardio makes me feel best)

20-30 minute walk as soon as I wake up

One meditation session of 60 to 90 minutes daily

No stimulants or alcohol

Bonus:

Finish showers with cold water for a couple of minutes (been building up to it), ideally in the first half of the day.

Wim Hof breathing for energy boost or when dealing with stress

Push ups when irritated/agitated

Sunset walk and reduce artificial lights in the evening. That's not really possible for me as I work from home from 3PM to 11:30PM but it worked well when I didn't have this schedule.

Listen to a mildly interesting audio program in bed with no lights if it feels too jarring to try and fall asleep as soon as you close your eyes. If you're into meditation and got some experience there's also some subtle things you can do with attention to the body sensations to encourage a dull/sleepy state, but I wouldn't really recommend that unless you kind of know what you're trying to do from experience with meditation.



All comments from YouTube:

Simmol3

My cheat sheet from this:

- Light
- Sunlight in first 30-60 minutes of waking
- Look at or near the sun as close as it doesn’t hurt
- If it’s sunny this could be 5 minutes. If overcast 10. If heavy cloud 30.
- Need to be outside ideally, not through a window
- If no light available, selfie ring lights are a decent substitute
- It’s a cumulative effect, so if you don’t get enough one day make up for it the next day.
- Aim for at least 80% of days
- Sunlight in eyes when setting.
- This helps signal to your body that it’s the end of the day.
- Also protects somewhat against the negative effects of artificial light before bed.
- When sun is down
- Do not use bright artificial lights of any colour
- Put lights as low to ground as possible
- Use as little light as possible (moon or candle light best if possible)

- Exercise
- In the first hour after waking increases body temperature helping you wake up and set good sleep cycle
- Later in the day will make you fall asleep later.

- Shower
- To increase you core body temperature in the first hour of waking have 1-3 minute cold shower.
- A warm shower or bath for less than 20 minutes will help cool core body temperature.
- Can be used post exercise late in the day to try to negate negative effects of late exercise on sleep.

- Drugs
-Caffeine
- At least 90-120 minutes after waking. This avoid the afternoon crash.
- Then no caffeine 8-10 hours before sleep.
- Alcohol and THC
- Negatively affect sleep quality even if it feels like you get to sleep easier.

- Temperature
- Cool sleep environment about 3 degrees cooler than rest of the environment.
- If you have a cool sleeping environment you can sleep under a blanket and your extremities will naturally stick out of covers and regular your temperature avoiding wake-ups.
- Can be used especially post late evening exercise to help negate negative effects on sleep.

- Catch up sleep
- NSDR deep rest technique.
- Nap at most 90 minutes and not close to bed time
- Do not sleep in past normal waking time more than 1 hour even if very minimal sleep
- Strictly do not have caffeine first 90 minutes after waking, this will disrupt future catch up sleep.

- Having to do things at night like feed baby
- Use dim red light if needed.
- Do not have caffeine , view bright lights or exercise during your normal sleep times

- Other
- Be a nose breather.
- If needed, tape your mouth shut while you sleep (if you don’t have severe sleep apnoea
- You can train more airflow through your nose by doing cardiovascular exercise with your mouth closed. Again, tape up your mouth if needed.
- Elevate the feet of your mattress 3-5 degrees to promote venous return. Not in pregnancy or vascular issues.

SammyCee23

Not that I wouldn't mind watching this whole episode, but you saved me 2 hours

Tracey Reger

Really great notes! Good job and thank you for sharing.

Bandit

Great work!

Sekar Rahul

This is gold. Thanks a ton.

Joshua McMahon

Thanks. This is kind of you to do.

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jpdbarranquillero

I feel like Andrew is just telling us to stop being lazy, get up early and go outside and work out, but in a nice and science based way. I love it.

Salsuginus Rex

Yup

Be Strong and Love Yourself

I love your comment 😊

lizvlx

Getting up early is actually bad for me and I am working on sleeping longer. But I am a premenopausal woman, according to science I am pretty much not human :D

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