Nowadays, I'm all about sleep. Read a book about dreams this past summer, and now enrolled in a dreams class. It's been real insightful. Sleep and dream research is real scant nowadays; it's real tough to get grant proposals approved when "dream" is written all over it. "Ha, in your dreams," they'd laugh. Anyway, I've been hella into my reader.. already ahead in readings. That's never happened before. In one reading, a Harvard student shared a personal anecdote contrasting two lifestyles she lived during college. One was a multi-tasking, do-it all, get everything done while sacrificing sleep lifestyle. The other, was a healthy-eating, early-sleeping, sacrifice other things for sleep lifestyle.
Getting enough sleep > not getting enough.
Think about it. When you get enough sleep, you're more alert. In classes where you'd usually find yourself dozing, you'd be attentive and awake. The material might even strike you as interesting, now that you're awake to take it in. You'll have more energy throughout the day. You'd yawn less (that's especially a plus!).
It's just starting to make sense to me. Get sleep. I understand our culture doesn't allow for this. We've got to start a revolution against the anti-sleep lifestyle we're all pressured to live. F-that. The body needs sleep like the body needs food. If you don't get enough, your body's going to find a way - even if it means having a lower quality level of consciousness during your daily routines.
Anyway, last thing, going back to the neglection of grant money to sleep research. We spend an entire 1/3 (more or less) of our lives sleeping. Shouldn't grant-alloting institutions dedicate more attention to what's going on during it? More importantly, shouldn't you?
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