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“Honey, go to sleep now,” says the Mommy. “Why do I have to?!” the child demands and, with that response, asks a questions that goes far beyond the dynamics of a familiar moment in the bedtime struggle. Why do we “have to” go to sleep? What is this mysterious one-third of our lives we call sleep, and what are its normal patterns? How do these change over an individual’s lifetime? What do we know about the range of healthy variation in sleep patterns as a person grows and ages? And, of course, “why?” Why do we sleep at all... what possible functions does sleep serve?
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Aronoff, M.S. (1991). The ABCs of Catching Zs—Normal Sleep, What It Is. In: Sleep and Its Secrets. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6056-6_2
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