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what is stage 2 sleep
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so as you move from stage 1 to stage 2
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sleep
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your heart rate will slow down even more
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and your body temperature lowers
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brain activity as well lowers especially
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in areas associated with thought
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reasoning language and problem solving
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at this point your eyes are going to
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stop rolling around and your muscles
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will go into deeper relaxation
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including the muscles in your throat
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which will start to relax and which can
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then cause you to start to mumble
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or even snore early on in the night
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periods of stage two sleep may be quite
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short
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and then they lengthen out across the
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night generally speaking
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you're going to spend around 50 of your
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night
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in stage 2 sleep and it's important to
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know that this is generally experienced
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as quite
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light sleep so you're going to spend
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about 50 of your night
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in light stage 2 sleep