Eli5: How/ Why does a full bladder wake you up or prevent you from falling asleep?

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Eli5: How/ Why does a full bladder wake you up or prevent you from falling asleep?

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Being we just go as infants- I think it is actually learned behavior based on stimulus response. We don’t like waking up covered in urine and needing to deal with the mess, so that feeling of urgency we get from needing to go becomes associated with not staying asleep.

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