Psychology
Huberman Reveals He Practices Grief at 3AM to Access Undefended Consciousness
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"Someone recommended to me that I set an alarm for the middle of the night, somewhere between 3:00 and 4:00 AM, and I just get up and try grieving then. I tried it. It was very interesting. It definitely allowed for more intense mourning. I had this like designated period in my sleep did a lot of crying between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m."
Huberman disclosed he deliberately woke at 3-4 AM to grieve his deceased graduate advisor, using the state between sleep and waking when psychological defenses are lowered. He found the practice paradoxically made sleep easier and accelerated the mourning process by creating a contained period for emotional processing when the prefrontal cortex was less active.
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