sleep

Eight hours a day, 56 hours a week, 224 hours a month, 2688 hours a year. That adds up to one third of our life. This is the average time a person spends sleeping. It seems like an awful lot a time wasted on inactivity. However, sleep is not about inactivity. The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a summation of activity of postsynaptic cerebral neurons. The changes the brain goes through during sleep is measured by the EEG. These measurement …

…using EEG, have a pattern that is most similar to those of a person who is awake. REM sleep occurs cyclically every 90 minutes during the night in association with high brain activity, rapid spontaneous eye movements and suppressed voluntary motor activity. The phrase “sleeping your life away” seems to be less relevant. Studies and research prove the importance of sleep and the role it plays in our ability to live full, active and productive lives.