Why sleep well?
What is Sleep? "Sleep is the best meditation" - Dalai Lama. Sleep is not just resting, rather it is much more then bodily rest alone. Contrary to popular belief, your brain does not rest when you are deep asleep. Rather, your brain is doubly active when you are deep asleep. Let’s see what is sleep? Slee p is a state of consciousness where we have limited interactions with our surroundings and are relatively quiet and still (depending on the stage of sleep). This is again contrary to popular belief that you become unconscious while sleeping. In fact, sleep is a different stage of consciousness. Stages and cycles of sleep Our brain goes through 4-5 cycles of 90 minute each in the night in a duration of 7-9 hour sleep, each cycle containing 4 stages. T he pattern includes two major phases of sleep: non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. The four stages of sleep include three stages of non-REM sleep and one stage of REM sleep. Stage 1...