Single hemispheric sleep, instinctively learned during high stress situations, such as combat to save your life, causes sleep deprivation. The goal of this relaxation procedure is to create a safe condition that allows both hemispheres of the brain to sleep. That should alleviate side effects of single hemispheric sleep.

This YouTube audio will teach you how to relax and sleep.
The directions are easy to follow.  Listen to narrator Mitch Bensel
 and enjoy your sleep.

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Scientific American MIND  magazine published proof that brains experience single-hemispheric sleep during stress situations.

Stress situations are encountered by persons living in dangerous occupations such as the armed forces, law enforcement, and fire-fighting. Persons in the private sector may also have highly stressful jobs. One of the biggest impacts of single-hemispheric sleep is sleep…