eli5 why do we wake up from deep sleep to pee but don’t actually wet the bed ?

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eli5 why do we wake up from deep sleep to pee but don’t actually wet the bed ?

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Most likely you don’t wake up from a *deep* sleep, you wake at the end of a cycle. Which is why it always feels like an emergency, because your body has already been holding it for a while.