The Teager Energy Operator (TEO) is a feature extraction circuit used for electroencephalography (EEG) signals. TEO uses a low-pass filter and multiplier to measure instantaneous energy, which can help classify specific sleep stages. TEO is designed using a mathematical formula and extracts features from EEG signals by measuring energy. It is one tool among others, including signal level detection and peak detection, that can extract features from EEG, electromyography, and electrooculography signals.