Good sleep, good learning, good life
- From: Sewer Rat <ratfromthesewer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 06:13:13 +0200
Perhaps so many people are chronically fatigued and chronically ill because in today’s society we screw up basic things like sleep. Especially if one also screws up eating healthy and exercising.
*Good sleep, good learning, good life*
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
A few quotes:
Sleep deprivation in society
"Few people realize how important sleep is! The alarm clock is an often-used fixture in an overwhelming majority of homes of the modern world. By using the electric lighting, alarm clocks, sleeping pills, and shift-work, we have wreaked havoc on the process of sleep. Over the last hundred years of the twentieth century, we have intruded upon a delicate and finely regulated process perfected by several hundred million years of evolution. Yet only recently have we truly become aware that this intrusion may belong to the most important preventable factors that are slowing the societal growth in industrial nations! In a couple of years from now, we may look at alarm clocks and "sleep regulation", in the same way as we look today at other "great" human inventions in the league of cigarettes, asbestos materials or radioactive cosmetics."
Kill the alarm clock!
"Few upwardly mobile people in the modern rat-race society can live without an alarm clock. Increasingly, time becomes the most precious commodity in society where achievement is often associated with speed and perfect time-management. However, alarm clocks introduce two harmful side effects: stress and sleep deprivation.
The art of time-management makes it possible to live at high speed with the alarm clock on your side and actually be free from stress. However, the societal damage inflicted by alarm clocks used to regulate sleep is unforgivable. An alarm clock that interrupts your sleep damages your memory, your ability to learn, your mood and temper, your relationships with other people, your ability to focus and your overall intellectual performance!"
Exercise
"Aerobic exercise is a blessing for sleep. It may increase your demand for sleep even more than learning. The only downside of sports may come if these are overly exhaustive. Dehydration, stress, exhaustion, injuries and the like may reduce the quality of sleep. You must also remember to exercise no later than 30-60 minutes before siesta time and 3-4 hours before the night sleep. Exercise temporarily increases the level of catecholamines which makes you more alert and may keep you up at bedtime, esp. if you go to sleep early in reference to your circadian low. Later on, though, it will make your metabolism and body temperature drop below the baseline. This will promote sleep."
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