Here is a concise summary of the text:
**Title:** Overcoming Sleep Deprivation through Rhythm (Brain Tapping)
**Personal Story:**
* The author, a drummer, had a near-heart-attack experience in 2010 due to chronic sleep deprivation (4 hours/night) and poor lifestyle habits.
* Diagnosed with severe anxiety, not a heart condition, the author was warned to change their ways to avoid premature death.
**Discovery and Solution:**
* The author researched sleep deprivation and its dangers (affecting 35% of US adults and 87% of teenagers).
* He discovered that rhythm can aid sleep, leveraging his drumming experience.
* Developed "Brain Tapping": a 30-second exercise involving light leg tapping (at a ticking stopwatch speed) and slow breathing to slow down brain activity.
**Exercise and Challenge:**
* The author guides the audience through the Brain Tapping exercise.
* Issues a 5-night challenge to practice the exercise for 3+ minutes, then share it with others, especially kids, to promote better sleep and potentially increase global peacefulness.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, numbered and in short sentences:
1. **Event Date**: The narrator's hospital incident occurred in October 2010.
2. **Initial Diagnosis**: The narrator was initially told he was having a heart attack.
3. **Final Diagnosis**: The narrator was later informed he had severe anxiety, not a heart attack.
4. **Daily Habits (at the time)**: The narrator consumed:
* A can of Redbull every morning
* A pot of coffee every morning
* Several more cans of Redbull throughout the day
* Up to 4 bowls of Lucky Charms before bed
5. **Sleep Pattern (at the time)**: The narrator averaged about 4 hours of sleep per night.
6. **Doctor's Warning**: The doctor stated that 4 hours of sleep per night is a form of sleep deprivation.
7. **Comparison to Impairment**: Sleep deprivation from 4 hours of sleep is similar to the impairment from drinking 5 regular beers (for someone of the narrator's size).
8. **Sleep Deprivation Statistics**:
* 35% of US adults (approximately 86 million) are sleep-deprived.
* 87% of US teenagers (approximately 36 million) are chronically sleep-deprived.
9. **Global Sleep Deprivation**: It is considered an emerging global epidemic, affecting low-income people and women the most.
10. **Discovery**: The narrator found that using a rhythmic pattern (initially developed from drumming workshops) helped him fall asleep.
11. **Brain Response**: This is based on the "Frequency Following Response," where the brain follows repeating rhythmic patterns.
12. **Solution Developed**: The narrator created an exercise called "Brain Tapping" to help with sleep.
13. **Exercise Details**:
* Tapping hands on lap at the speed of a ticking stopwatch.
* Slow breathing technique.
* Slowing down the rhythm towards the end.