Sleep Sweet Sleep...

On average everyone of us spend one third of our lives sleeping.

The above statement shows how important the "Sleep" is for a human being. If age of a particular person is 60, 20 years of his life is spent on sleeping. People tend to use the phrase "waste time on sleeping" specially the ones who don't have a clue about what sleep is about and how important it is for humans just like oxygen.

There are many consequences of "Problem Sleepiness" which occurs in day to day life. As everyone of us, having experience about a day that we coudn't have a proper sleep, we know how it feels like. It reduces your productiviry, efficiency, effectiveness, concentration, energy, memory and also might cause emotional instability and lethrgy. In one of the surveys conducted in new york about car crashes, 25 percent of the drivers have fallen some amount of time on the steering wheel. This shows the size of the impact of problem sleepiness in day to day life of people.

There are many misconceptions in the society about sleep. As for the information from certain researches about sleep, they have found out that most of those, do not have any validity.

"Sleep is a time for the body and the brain to rest" is one of the misconception which is not true at all. Because during the sleeping time most of the cells in our body functions as we are awake and some more, specially inside the brain. In one of the book, authour has mentioned that there are particular kind of rays emitting from people when they are at sleep which is different from when people are awake.

And "Sleep does not get accumulated" is also another one which is not true again. If you dont sleep properly, it gets accumulated. Bt eventhough u can pay off your sleep debt, it won't be fully recovered as such.

Another one is day time sleep can pay off the missed sleep at night. This is not particularly right too. Because inside the human brain there is a biologica clock which keeps track of the day and night. So rest of the functions are organized in such a way that, it follows the output from the biologica clock which is totally out of our control. For a simple example, if u turn off lights in a room to create an artificial environment to demonstrate night at a daytime, sill your brain would recongnize it as day time. You wont be able to have the exact similar sleep you have at night.

There are many more misconceptions and consequences of "Less sleep". I have listed only few. As for the general recommendations, it is adviced to sleep at least 5 hours per day at night. The recommended time for to sleep is to from 10pm to 6am. There are many ways of sleeping too. Aganin the recommended method is to sleep, turning to your right side. The underlying logic is you should sleep in a way that your heart positions on an upper level. It will lead to proper blood circulation.

Even though we are aware of the facts about proper sleeping sometimes we might not be able to follow it with the shedules that each one of us has. Anyway it is good to educate people always about the right thing.