Sleep

Sleep is one of the most misunderstood of human activities. And most abused. Sleeping, the process, is also really really complicated, and even worse, complex, processes that our bodies undertake. In the normal course of any given second of time, there may be over 100,000 biochemical processes going in each, and every one of the ten trillion cells in your body, assuming that you are an adult human. That’s a giant amount of biochemical activity.

No wonder your body gets so tired. It’s constantly working trying to meet the demands of the owner. Most human body owners are not too savvy about their property. If they were, they would never do anything that would jeopardize their sleep. Yet look where we live, on a planet polluted with blue light, caffeine, and stimulants, and numerous drugs, and electronic strange attractants, all of which are seemingly designed to induce a young human to abandon sanity and reason by staying up all night partying. Or working, which is far worse. Oh, the stress of it all. And then there is stress! Hell of a sleep killer.

Sleep lost, can never be recovered. This is due to the extra trillions of biochemical processes that will need to be done JUST to keep you up at night against your body’s sleep schedule. Trillions of them, these extra activities that your body must do just to keep the owner on their feet and dancing (or whatever) will have to have a compensatory reaction within those same cells when the Blessed Sleep finally is allowed to happen.

Your body only heals, or grows, during sleep. That is one of the main points for sleeping, to recover. The Universe knows most humans go through a phase sleep is required to repair the damage done. Recovery and healing is only, ever, done during sleep. Special processes are instigated to knock the owner senseless so that the body can get on with recovery and repair without its energy being drained off in counter productive distractions for the admittedly short-attention span mind.

These special Sleep processes that are on-going in order to have Sleep affect the body are exactly why most attempts to do something to or with Sleep will fail. The body’s Sleep processes are complicated, and made further complex in that they have to be active to keep the body quiescent while doing all the growth/recovery processes concurrently. And running all the regular maintenance stuff necessary just to keep the owner attached to the body. Do anything to disturb the Sleep process itself results in greatly reduced effectiveness of the other trillions of biochemical activities.

Adapted from Clif High in his May 17, 2022 Substack Newsletter