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NREM Stage N3

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State

Stage N3 is deep slow-wave sleep, the hardest stage to wake from and the stage associated with physical restoration.

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Someone woken from N3 is disoriented for minutes before becoming coherent.

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N3 is concentrated in the first half of the night. Late-night sleep is not a smaller version of early sleep.