How Sleep Cycles Work

Best for: sleep and wellness apps, clinics, mattress brands, educators and science communicators

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Opens in the Deus Video editor. Free account, no software to install.

Format
9:16 · vertical
Duration
15s
Scenes
4

About this template

Science explainer video template in a vertical 9:16 format for Instagram Reels, TikTok and Shorts, for health and wellness brands with something to teach. Fifteen seconds on a gentle pad show a dark bedroom, a lamp going off, deep sleep and waking up.

Everything is indigo, lavender and moon yellow. A serif title opens the clip, and below it a hand-drawn sleep graph lights up stage by stage — light, deep, REM, repeat — while a moon sticker travels along the curve with the scenes. Each stage is named in large serif type with one line on what happens and the minutes it lasts as a counter; a tip per scene sits on a lavender tag, a counter of hours slept runs in the corner and a yellow button invites viewers to track their nights. Copy stays inside the safe zone. Nightly is a fictional app.

Replace the clips with your own, rename the stages and rewrite the lines and tips, set the minutes, and turn any cycle or process into a graph people understand.

Use cases

  • Sleep science explainer
  • Health education reel
  • Product science for a wellness brand
  • Any process shown as a graph