Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Debunking Common Notions on Sleep


There are several notions and sayings about the importance of sleep that I hear from my grandparents to popular historical figures. For example, Napoleon didn’t believe the cliché of getting eight hours of sleep everyday. For him, seven hours of sleep is for women, six hours for men and eight for a fool. But how much time you spend sleeping is really more of an age and body need and it can vary from one person to another. I think the best person to know how much sleep you need is yourself. When you have awaken up from an undisturbed sleep, feeling light and refreshed, then you’ve had enough sleep.

Another popular saying about sleep is “early to bed and early to rise” by Benjamin Franklin. This notion implies that the earlier you sleep, you are likely to become healthy, wealthy and wise. However because our body clocks operate uniquely, our need for sleeping early or late also varies. This notion has become popular because it is believed that people who wake up early even if they slept late at night are more productive. They have extra hours they can work and get paid for. But if you are a late sleeper, worry not, Albert Einstein was one too.

How much time you need for sleeping is a case-to-case basis and you just need to get in tuned with your body how much of it is required and healthy for you. 

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