Why do we wake up when we hear our names?

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Hi,

I just fell asleep in class with the camera off and when the professor called my name to make sure my group was ready to present I immediately woke up to say that I was in the lecture and almost had a heart attack because missing this specific lecture is an automatic fail. I wanted to ask anyone as to why we wake up if someone calls our name even when we’ve been asleep for 10+ minutes, but don’t wake up when hearing other people’s names or the lecture content.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Luckily, enough of your ‘ancestors’ were killed while they slept that the ones that survived passed along a heightened sleeping situational awareness.

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