- Everyone needs a minimum of 7 hours of sleep everyday. Nobody is special.
- Those who don’t sleep for at least 7 hours each day are never truly awake.
- Sleep debt gets accumulated, but sleep debt is corrosive too.
- REM sleep (dreamy sleep for laymen) and N-REM sleep are important and necessary for different fumctions.
- Missing out on REM sleep by getting repeatedly woken up during REM cycles is detrimental for memory formation and emotional maturity.
- Missing out on deep sleep is detrimental for repair and maintenance of bodily tissues and also for draining out of the gunk from the brain.
- Staying up at night to learn something is pointless.
- Chronic inadequate sleep may lead to dysfunctional memory.
- People who have Alzeimer’s, Depression, Parkinson’s will also tend to have sleep problems during the lifetime leading to these problems.
- For many of the following the root cause may be inadequate sleep
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Irritable bowel
- Memory Recall Issues
- Pre-diabetes or Type-2 diabetes
- Chronic Fatigue
- Constant irritability or watery eyes
- Driving urge to snack but not being actually hungry
- Inability to focus or do deep work
- Inability to comprehend new material
- Noticeable lag in instinctive responses
- Depression
- Sleep is a superpower.
- The best and the fastest learners almost always sleep very well
- Babies have the fastest physical growth and the most rapid burst of learning of skills, language, communication. Babies also sleep the most!
- Sleep is not a necessary evil. Sleep is what makes us human.