Sleep. A wonderful thing to many, myself included, but the science behind it is what is truly wonderful, without it, we would simply waste away, become weak, psychotic, violent and inevitably, dead. Many have wondered, why do we need say 8 hours? why not 12, why not 3? The answer is that the human brain works on perfectly timed cycles, breaking these cycles through drugs, homelessness, alcohol all do unbelievable damage, most, thankfully are repairable though, you guessed it, a good nights sleep.
As I’m sure many of you are aware, there is another side to sleep, not just the joyous dreamscape’s we all venture off to to live out the wild and fanciful connotations our minds create for us, as short lived as they are; but it is for the repair of broken links, broken cells, damaged souls and even broken hearts. I personally love my sleep, I know its 2:20am and your reading this thinking, ‘well thats a bit rich’, but I’ve MADE my body change its cycle over many years, and not for the better either…..
The states of sleep are vast, these have been placed in to stages such as R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Movement), N.R.E.M. (Non Rapid Eye Movement) with R.E.M. being the state in which we dream our wonderful dreams. Where as N.R.E.M. is considered to be the ‘tossing and turning’ side of things, which has born expressions like ‘I could not sleep, I was tossing and turning all night’ and so on, this is not a one off issue, it is a vital part of sleep.
Not sure what point there was to this but hey ho.
Night motherlickers!
