Sleep is one-third of our lives: write a post about it. Do you love naps? Have trouble falling alseep? Wish you could remember your dreams? Remember something especially vivid? Snuggle under a blanket, or throw the windows wide open? Meditate on sleep.
Sleep rejuvenates you. I knew that but I don’t think I fully understood its meaning until I this video by researchers out of London. It shows very clearly the impact on skin of having 6 hours sleep each night instead of 8 hours. Personally I rarely get 8 hours as I have such a long commute in the morning however aiming for 7 – 7.5 is probably a realistic goal and cheaper than all the correction make-up required if I don’t.
Other benefits of more sleep include:
- Better mood
- Increased metabolism
- Increased concentration
- Improved memory
- Helps creativity
- Improves athletic performance
- Improves attention
- Increases well-being
- Improves ability to study
- Reduces stress
Aiming for more sleep tonight!! 🙂
Definitely
Looked in the mirror this morning… need more sleep!
I know the feeling!
I sleep a lot. Probably has more to do with age than with need or trying to improve anything.
The more I discover about how the body works the more it fascinates me.
There are so many posts about folks not sleeping. What is going on!
You offer some really interesting and valuable information here.
I have been focusing on getting close to 8 hours sleep since and I can feel the improvement.
Oh no! Since I’ve been blogging I’ve been getting less than six hours sleep, but I do try and nap daily to compensate for the loss of sleep at night.
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I used to be the same but now I am working more on sleep which makes me feel better and in a funny way helps my blogging.
Logical!
You are correct. It’s called beauty sleep for a reason. I was literally working myself to death years ago and I actually look younger now, a few years after retirement, than I did about 7 years ago. Scary!