Sleep - 1/3 Life

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
- Shakespeare

Sleep! It is everyone's wish for the day but not forever. We spend our one third of life in sleeping. Why do you want it? It is difficult to explain it. Similarly it is difficult to define it. You cannot know the happenings going on within as well as around during sleep. Very general answer: it is one of my daily activities such as eating; drinking and so I perform it so as others.

Next question arises is what leads you to sleep? Is it brain that orders you to sleep? G Kaitholli argues: "Sleep will come to you when you are ready to accept it."

Why do I sleep?

This is a stupid but genuine question.

Robert McCarley believes that people get sleep for two reasons.

1. You've been awake for a long time, and the other is, it's that time of day or night to go to sleep.
2. Kind of sleep is related to your body rhythms, circadian rhythms; and melatonin acts on circadian rhythm, it's really a darkness hormone.

In point of views of B. Mallick "Sleep is a reversible behavioral state of disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the surrounding environment."

Awake or sleeping?

How do you know whether one is awake or sleeping?

1. You are awake when you show external signs of wakefulness such as walking or talking. But you cannot differentiate sleeping person and man lying quietly.
2. You may disrupt by your external factors like light, noise, or internal factors such as your dream, pain, emotions and stress.
3. Whatever you feel, during your sleep is nothing else but it just your dream. By your dream one measure the level or the state of your sleep.

Sleep is builder of health!
According to Irish Proversh "Sleep is the beginning of the health". It is just not rest to your mind but it makes your heart healthy too.

Psychiatrist Michael Irwin wrote "Sleep is key to a healthy heart, when people drift off levels of hormones which stimulate the sympathetic nervous system during the waking hours begin to ebb. Its result: blood pressure falls. Heart rate slows. Your heart get much deserved rest because it making blood to flow."

Sleepless Nights!

Study happened at National Cancer Center, Tokyo defines that 'People who sleep less than 5 hours a night run 2-3 times the risk of heart attacks."

We fall asleep when we are physically and mentally exhausted, in a process that is as involuntary as breathing or digestion. Sometimes Stresses and strains are of modern life affecting the ability to sleep comfortably and refreshingly.

Excitement, fear, sorrow and guilt are frequent barriers to sleep.

Sleeplessness has been running in hand-in-glove with nervous breakdowns, high blood pressure and even mental upsets. - Battista.

Too much!

James Allen criticized sleeping habit " Enough sleep should be taken, but not too much."

Carol Everson found "When rats sleep deprived over a three-week period, bacteria that normally reside in the gut be gain to spread to organ and the bloodstream, making the animals ill. For human being experts' advice is to aim for seven to nine hours a night."

Joyce Walsleben, PhD, Director, NYU Sleep Disorder Clinic says, "Well my patients tell me that excessive sleepiness feels like they can't maintain their alertness, they'll describe it perhaps as fatigue or the inability to concentrate or the sense that they're missing something or they have no energy."

Too much sleep makes a man dull and lethargic.

Balanced Life

If you want to sleep without any problem and you want to enjoy your night sleep you must have to follow some basic rules.

1. Sleep early and get up early in the morning. Always decide to see sunrise before sleep.
2. Be regular in your activities. You don't have any particular base of your activities than prepare a time she dual for your daily activity of sleep.
3. Have exercise everyday; be regular in some sort of physical exercise. Warm bath may also help to get a better sleep.
4. Take some food or drink milk before sleep.
5. Never take alcohol or smoke cigarettes.
6. Make your bedroom dark and create a safe and comfortable place to sleep.
7. Read some magazines or book, watching TV programs (not too much!) before sleep because it will help you to sleep early.
8. Make your body light than air.
9. Have a glass of milk before sleep. Take light food in dinner.
10. Don't think just go to bed for sleep.
11. Think of dreaming beauty you like. (Anything that makes you happy)
12. And finally, if I sleep, I sleep for myself.

Good Night and Sweet Dreams!