Your Anxiety Spikes at 3 AM for a Reason

​The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.

​One speaker. One big idea. One good room.

​Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.

​Your brain doesn't stop working when you sleep. It cycles through stages with different jobs, and one of them, slow-wave sleep, appears to be doing something specific about anxiety. When you lose that stage, worry that would normally stay manageable can tip into something sharper. Dr. Eti Simon walks through what happens in deep sleep at the neural level, why losing it changes how your brain handles emotional regulation, and what that means for the 3 AM spike that feels different from daytime stress.

​How the night goes

​Doors at 6:00 PM. Come early, grab a drink and something to eat, settle in. Eti takes the floor at 7:00 PM. Questions from the room near 7:45 PM. Afterward, stay for a glass of wine with Eti. The best conversations happen then.