eli5 why do we wake up from deep sleep to pee but don’t actually wet the bed ?
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I used to not wake up, because I had weak bladder muscles and couldn’t hold it through a rem cycle. We got this underwear set that sets off an alarm when it senses you wetting the bed (this shit sucked, it was so loud), and from then on I’d groggily wake up in a panic right before I was about to wet the bed, because I knew the alarm was about to scare the piss outta me. Eventually I was able to strengthen those muscles and fix the problem, but yeah you’ve gotta have a trauma response to wake up from deep sleep just to go pee, usually your body holds it, like others have mentioned
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