Neuroscientist reveals simple trick to fall back asleep in 5 minutes that anyone can do

Andrew Huberman’s “five-minute” sleep fix is back on everyone’s feed, and it’s not the usual magical thinking. It’s the kind of move you do at 2:13 a.m., when your brain is wide awake and your alarm clock is basically laughing at you.

The whole thing starts with that miserable middle-of-the-night wake-up, the one where stress kicks in fast. You clock how many hours you have left, panic-stare at the ceiling, and suddenly sleep feels impossible, even if your schedule has been mostly fine.

Then Huberman drops a simple routine: long exhales plus eye movement behind closed lids, and suddenly you’re not fighting your body anymore.

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A neuroscientist is confident doing this one thing will help you fall asleep if you have woken up in the middle of the night.

When it comes to sleep, most people hope to wake up refreshed and ready to start the day... unfortunately, that isn’t always the case.

That’s when the Bill Maher clip starts resurfacing, and people instantly recognize the exact “I’m doomed” feeling from their own nights.

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A lot of the time, possibly due to a bad sleep schedule, stress or even bad eating habits, you can find yourself waking up in the middle of the night.

And then you get flustered and stressed about how much sleep you have left till you actually have to wake up - nightmare.

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But neuroscientists and podcaster, Andrew Huberman, revealed a little sleep trick that he swears by.

While speaking to Bill Maher on his show last year, he noted it was simple enough and would send you to sleep within five minutes.

Next comes the part where Huberman explains the stress-body connection, and it hits harder because you can practically feel your heart rate climbing at 3 a.m.

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A snippet of their chat has started to do the rounds on social media again - kinda showing the desperation for better sleep, eh.

He explained: “Now we are finally coming to terms with the fact that the mind and body are connected, duh. It’s been known about for thousands of years.

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“I’ve published clinical trials on some of these things, like the respiration physiology, its role in stress and destress.

“In fact, if you wake up in the middle of the night and you are having trouble going back to sleep, try just doing some long extended exhales.

Right after he says to try long extended exhales, the comments shift from “sounds weird” to “okay, I’m doing this right now.”

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“And get this, this sounds really weird but it has a basis in physiology.”

Huberman admitted that it might not work 100 percent of the time, but insisted it was worth giving it a go.

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He continued: “Keep your eyes closed and just move your eyes from side to side behind your eyelids, back and forth. Do some long exhales.

“I can’t promise but I am willing to wager one pinky that within five minutes or so, you’ll be back to sleep.”

Then the real kicker lands, keep your eyes closed and move them side to side while you breathe out long, and suddenly the midnight panic has something to do.

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He noted that there was no mystical trick to it, but rather simple science.

People on social media insisted that they would give his method a go, with some even reporting back their results.

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One person noted: “I just tried the sleep one this morning and it worked!

“I woke up way too early and I usually have a hard time falling back asleep. I tried what he said and next thing I know, I'd slept for 2 more hours.”

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Another added: “I have been doing this recently; and it does work!”

With a third commenting: “I tried this. It's not like "boom, asleep" but your entire body relaxes somehow and it definitely helps.”

If you’re stuck awake every time you wake up early, this might be the five-minute reset your night has been missing.

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