Sleep is productive

[00:00:00] Well hello, this is The Daily Five with Aurooba. That's me, where we reflect on creating our best lives a little bit every day. Here we go.

[00:00:15] Today is gonna be a short one. It's been a long day and all I really want to do is sleep, so let's talk about that. This is just one of those truths we all know, but we sometimes fight anyway. Or maybe we fight them a lot, who knows. That sleep is not just important, it is productive. You can push through and get something done.

[00:00:39] But if you're tired, it's going to take at least twice as long as it might have taken if you weren't tired. Or, in other situations, it might take you just as long when you're rested, but the quality of your work is probably going to be a lot higher, rather than when you were tired. There's a lot of incomplete research on sleep.

[00:01:01] We still don't quite understand it, although we make strides all the time. And by we, I really do mean that collective we. But we do know that a lack of sleep makes it difficult for us to retain what we learn. harder to regulate our emotions, and more difficult for our muscles to keep their mass. and their flexibility.

[00:01:22] Sleep, good quality sleep that is, because not all sleep is equal, is the daily reset that is basically, um, tidying up of your mind, and that it needs to do in order to keep you functioning well. I think, you know, rest, Is a funny word. Sleep is kind of a funny word, too, if you think about it. We often think of rest as doing nothing, but actually, rest is a pretty active state.

[00:01:51] At the peak of your sleep, your mind is at rest, yes, but at the same time, conducting a flurry of activity. There are phases in your sleep, right? And we've all heard about how important REM sleep is. Well, during REM, your brain is pretty active. It's when you dream. It's when you dre defragment your brain.

[00:02:12] There is a theory, I don't really know if it's true or not, that the reason we dream is because our mind is literally going through stuff we recently learned, thought, and felt, and reviewing it and cataloging it. In my mind, it feels like shelves upon shelves of libraries. and books, you know, that's what I think about.

[00:02:36] And the mishmash of all of those things and reviewing them in that weird order or whatever it may be, that is what makes our dreams. I think rest and sleep are really difficult states for German people. They are difficult states for me, despite knowing the benefits of it. And, you know, my lack of deep, deep experience is demonstrated by my frequent inability to relax, rest, and step away.

[00:03:03] I think people who, who are wise You know, they've learned the power of sleep, of rest, and are able to set aside their feelings of, I don't know what it is that drives us to do the things that we do, I suppose, but wise people can set that aside and recognize that in order to achieve those goals, we need to sleep.

[00:03:27] And they're able to make themselves do that. I know for a fact that sometimes I cannot make myself do that. So, yeah, you know, I recognize that about myself. I've got lots of growing left to do there, and you probably do as well. Although, what I need to work on and what you need to work on are probably different.

[00:03:48] But you and I both know that we probably will benefit from giving sleep a very important place in our mind. And then our routine and that optimizing for it and optimizing it is probably good for us. The rest of our lives, days, relationships, and everything will probably benefit from it a lot. So yeah, maybe think about your sleep and how you can make it better if it's not so great.

[00:04:21] Thanks for listening. Same time tomorrow?