I swallowed the same little sleeping tablet at ten every night for six years just to stop staring at the ceiling: the night a lab watched my brain waves, I understood what those eight hours really were
After six years of taking the same sleeping tablet every night, a sleep lab revealed a shocking discovery: eight hours of sedation isn’t the same as eight hours of sleep. What the brain waves showed changed everything about how one person understood rest, medication, and the path to genuine recovery.