Sleeping

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes:  we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.” ~quoted by Charles Caleb Colton

“If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

Well stastistically we sleep a third of our life, approx. 7,5 h per night as an adult. But how come that one sometimes feels as if he could sleep the whole day through as well? The American social psychologist James Maas introduced the idea of a “power nap” to avoid the weary feelin during the day. His idea is a short sleep (approx. 15- max. 30 min) which has to end before you enter the SWS (Slow Wave Sleep), or deep sleep. It makes you more alert and productive. It is very important to find out the best personal napping time, to foreclose feeling groggry after it.

Another very interesting article I recently read about sleeping was that scientists believe that the position in which we sleep tells something about our personality.