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Meditation is not known to significantly affect sleep. Research has suggested that a reduction in the number of nocturnal sleep hours due to meditation is probably because the person in question could be falling asleep during meditation.

There is no evidence that meditation reduces an individual’s total requirement of nocturnal sleep.

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