Sleep

Sleep is not about relaxing hours, or even just a break, no. Actually, sleep is a part of life. It’s fundamentally required for a stable, good, and successful life. Sometimes, we think to reduce sleep time to improve productivity daily, we spend one-third of life asleep, is that necessary? Let’s explore what sleep is? Why do we sleep? Is it possible to reduce sleep time? Can’t we ignore our bodies’ need for sleep? What’s happening during sleep time? What are phenomena happening during sleep time? We hope to have an exciting time reading.

 

·        Sleep, what is it?

Sleep is a part of the human body (or any other living being) that can never be separated. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), sleep is defined to be:

“Sleep is an important part of your daily routine — you spend about one-third of your time doing it. Quality sleep – and getting enough of it at the right time –– is as essential to survival as food and water. Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly. Everyone needs sleep, but its biological purpose remains a mystery. Sleep affects almost every type of tissue and system in the body – from the brain, heart, and lungs to metabolism, immune function, mood, and disease resistance. Research shows that a chronic lack of sleep, or getting poor quality sleep, increases the risk of disorders including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and obesity.”

So, it’s still not understandable to scientists, we just need it to survival. We can simply say, when we are asleep, we are not awake, our consciousness is absent, but surely our brain is active, at least, to keep us breathing.

 

·        Why sleep?

Sleep is like charging, we get power through many things, eating, drinking and other sources, sleep is an important source of energy to keep life stable, we are created with natural need to relaxation, 8 hours of being unawake, or lose active consciousness.

 

·        Sleep stages and mechanisms

Sleep is not just a set of hours, no, it’s a complicated process, that consists of many stages. Our sleep consists of two main types, REM and non-REM sleep, non-REM consists of three subtypes.

1.      1^st stage:

A non-REM sleep, that lasts several minutes.

 

2.      2^nd stage:

A non-REM sleep, your heartbeat and breathing slow, your temperature drops, and eye movements stop.

 

3.      3^rd stage:

A non-REM sleep, your heartbeat and breathing are at their lowest, and your muscles are relaxed.

 

4.      4^th stage:

REM sleep, breathing and heartbeat are very high in this stage.

 

·        Sleeping less time

Sleeping is not just an activity, it’s as important as eating and drinking, as anyone can’t live without eating, he can’t also live without sleeping, but how would sleeping well affect our success, your mind takes advantages of your sleep time to do things that are necessary for the body to be healthy, such as getting rid of toxic components of from your mind.

 

So, sleeping less can significantly affect your overall health, your mind finds sleep time is a precious time to finish its priorities, sleeping less than required can let you feel weak, less energetic, mentally vulnerable.

 

Of course, a lot of people had tried to sleep less than 8 hours, as they ask, why can’t we sleep for three hours, or two hours, but, eventually, they had realized, they have to sleep around 8 hours daily to feel well.

 

We know that other creatures sleep schedules are different from ours, some sleep for more than 8 hours, and others sleep for less than 8 hours, it depends on their active time and other factors, for sure they were built on that base.

 

·        Proper sleep

Sleep is not just an activity as mentioned above, it’s a typical day priority that everybody needs to be functioning well. To sleep, you just sleep, but to sleep well, you prepare yourself and things around you to help you get deep into sleep.

 

·        Finally

Finally, sleep time is a highly important part of your day, try not to interrupt that time, as that time literally creates – every day – a better version of you, so invest in your health, by getting a scheduled sleep time, just do this regularly, you’ll find your life getting better a day after another.