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Originally Posted by Bio-Hazard
It's said that eight hours of sleep is usually a good idea if you want your body to recover mentally and physically, but I question, "Why do people have to sleep?"
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___I don't see any great agreement in the literature about why we need sleep, but there is a lot of interesting work going on in the quest for such agreement.
___I recall a study wherein a person went deep into a cave to live for weeks. Without the daily Sun cycle to prompt the sleep cycle, an entirely different time cycle manifested. As I recall, the person settled into a 24 1/2 hour cycle which divided up into longer than "normal" work periods & sleep periods.
___Yesterday, I went into a very depressive & angry mood which worsened as the day went into night. I woke today to find (thankfully) that the bitter mood disapeared. I think there is a considerable difference between the benefits of sleep for the brain & the muscles. The brain doesn't turn off during sleep like muscles, in fact the brain "turns off" the muscles to prevent the body from acting on the dream images.
___To sleep, perchance to dream.
