Insufficient Sleep is a Public Health Epidemic according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The Better Sleep Council can help!
"The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep". --Anonymous
"SLEEP - Those little slices of death, how I loathe them". --Edgar Allen Poe
"Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night's sleep". --Anonymous
"It's a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it". --John Steinbeck
It's probably unrealistic in our fast paced, competitive lives to expect or demand any fixed amount of sleep hours. I think we should strive for quality of sleep. Try to improve factors such as diet, exercise, bedroom environment etc. that improve sleep efficiency, and avoid things that result in poor sleep quality such as excessive caffeine or alcohol, stress, etc.
There are some good sleep tips here at
The Better Sleep Council
What is your secret for a good nights sleep?
3 comments:
just go to bed!
Here's a poem about insomnia, which used to plague me before I changed meds. Sorry, but they're only for crazy people!
WAKING AT 3 AM
The good marriage, The career. The bank account.
These points are ephemeral. You win and win
yet the trophies turn to bubbles, wavering,
a dismal reckoning in the early morning.
Fear catches you every time.
You swim in sleep
while fear in his red flannel shirt strides through the pines
lays his shadow over you, puts his lead sinker in your belly,
picks at your future with a long knife.
And here, he whispers, is another loss.
Tosses you, gasping, clammy, in a creel of sheets.
In that darkness a nearby body, innocent,
offers no comfort. You are too soiled for comfort.
written 1994-1995
(Published: Fox Cry Review Vol. XXIII, 1997)
Good poem from Harriet.
Here's a quote that's kind of about sleep by Richard Brautigan.
1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
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