Sleep on it

What is the purpose of sleep? to rest our body and mind?

Do you know that usually we have 4-5 dream cycles each night? and most of the time we don’t recall those dreams?

Sleep seems to have multiple purpose in our life, ranging from a simple one for just being lazy to a more complex purpose like enhance our memory and cognitive ability.

Imagine this, your day was like a bull fight in a porcelain store… and you don’t have a clue on what’s really going on… it’s not a pleasant day for sure, probably by the end of the day you take a bath at your home and go to your bed, your mind was still perplexed and puzzled… as you got sleepy… and more sleepy… then slowly you slip into unconsciousness and perhaps forget the whole matter… and it took hours until you’re conscious again, …but the next morning when you open your eyes… you feel different…, suddenly you think you get a clearer picture of the circumstances around you with some sort of new wisdom and understanding…

If you ever experience a shift in awareness like that, then most probably you’re gaining benefit from a good sleep.

In the past we tend to consider that we need sleep to fulfill our physical need to rest, but recent studies suggest that we need sleep to enhance our mental well being more than we need it for our physical benefit.

Sleeping is an active state, in respect that while we’re peacefully asleep our brain is busily processing the day’s information. It’s like organizing our memories, stabilizing, copying and filing them, so that they will be more useful the next day, furthermore while we’re sleeping we gain insight from our experiences and actually learn something from it.

So since we're more aware of this phenomenon could we use it in everyday life?

Absolutely…

Next time you have question or wonder about something, you could use our ‘top of the line cognitive enhancer’ a.k.a. a good sleep to gain new wisdom and grip a better understanding from it.

Perhaps you could imagine these illustrations:

Example 1

You’re in the middle of an immediate strategic decision; it’s whether focusing your resources for the research & development dept. in order to keep your company on the edge when the customer needs and wants changes, or take your existing product line to its quantity advantage and generate as much cash as possible by double the production.
You consider those options and by the end of the day using your ‘sleep processor’, and then the next morning all of a sudden you realized that your target market is urban women who have distinct characteristic, so you could direct your R&D to focus on much more specific issues that don’t require much resources while taking benefit from harvesting your existing product using advertising campaign.

Example 2

In the middle of the week you have two requests to spend your weekend, one from Julie, and the second one from Cathy, and they both are really wonderful so it’s quite difficult for you to choose one of them, …you take a deep breath, take warm shower and go to bed to gain insight from it, …then first thing in the morning you opened your eyes smiling, slowly turn your head around… you saw somebody lying beside you… but it’s not Julie nor Cathy… it’s your wife…!, immediately you know that those requests are just a dream.

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Cheers,
Your sleep advisor