The Importance Of Proper Rest
Human beings function on cycles called “circadian rhythms”. Essentially, the pattern of light in the day will “cycle” a person from wakefulness to fatigue. If you’ve ever stayed up all night, the points where you were most tired were likely threefold: at dusk, just before dawn, and around three in the morning. That’s due, at least in part, to circadian rhythms.

Circadian rhythms and their impact notwithstanding, people need sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, it can kill you. The precise “why” of this is hard to pin down. There are, however, things that science has established that are linked with healthy sleeping patterns. Following we’ll explore seven considerations regarding sleep that demonstrate its necessity.

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1. Emotional Stability
Miss a few hours—or a few nights—of sleep, and you’re likely going to be irritable. You’re fighting fatigue, which means all your attention must be on one task at a time. So when someone interrupts you, the part of your brain which would regulate a knee-jerk emotional response is dulled, and you’re more likely to lash out.

You can see it in toddlers, you can see it in adults. When someone goes without food or without sleep too long, there is a period of irritation wherein the slightest impediment can set a person into a tirade. Compounding the issue is brain fog. When you haven’t slept enough, things that make no sense may irritate you, and that may result in bad choices.

2. Overall Mental Health
One of the reasons people addicted to “uppers” or “stimulants” tend to have psychotic personalities has to do with sleep deprivation. Synthetic substances keep the mind awake. The mind is, as far as science understands, centered in the brain. The brain and mind are separate—the brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.

The hardware of the brain “overheats” with overuse. Since it’s organic, it can never really be turned “off”. Sleep is the “rest” cycle of the brain. If you miss it too long, then the “hardware” starts to “glitch”–does that make sense? So those who go without sleep for long periods of time have “glitchy” brains. Bad hardware affects software.

The best software can’t run on bad hardware. Many who have good personalities and mean well get caught in a stimulant “loop” which gradually erodes their mind. But since they don’t feel fatigued owing to varying substances they’ve become addicted to, they keep perpetuating the issue through sheer will. Psychoses follow. Mental health declines without sleep.

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3. Social Harmony
When people are irritable and don’t have the best mental health, that tends to impact interpersonal relations. Somebody who never gets enough sleep is likely somebody who is hard to get along with. Social harmony declines, meaning the “herd animal” element of humanity is threatened for such an individual.

Human beings are social, but being social means regarding others as you would regard yourself. Without sleep, a sort of self-centeredness develops out of necessity. The “hardware” of your brain is having trouble running the mind’s “software”, so the individual afflicted must focus directly on tasks, meaning anyone who gets in the way can get them easily off track.

Accordingly, the instinct is to keep on one’s directional “footing”. As a result, people who haven’t slept much snap at others, they are hard to work with, and the list goes on. Social harmony becomes discordant, if you will when sleep is lost.

4. For Bodily Functionality
Have you ever woke up with a crick in your neck? Sometimes back pain will impact you from poor sleeping habits as well. The thing is, it’s not always the way in which you sleep that causes issues. Sometimes it’s the mattress you’re sleeping on. Poor support can cause your back to sag. Too much firmness can also cause pain.

There’s a delicate balance, and innerspring mattresses tend to hit that balance well. If you’re not too savvy as regards the varying distinctions that define modern innerspring mattress options, here’s a great article to innerspring mattress details. Regardless of the mattress you use, if you wake up with aches or pains, that’s bad—and affects overall sleep. Comfort is key.

5. Occupational Security
Occupational security lags from several angles under sleep deprivation. For one thing, if you’re irritable and in pain from poor sleep or no sleep, you’re hard to get along with. Eventually, the boss gives you the boot. For another thing, even if your boss doesn’t notice that you’ve become emotionally distant, the quality of your work will lag.

6. Imagination Stimulation
If you’ve paced a furrow in the carpet trying to think of the solution for something, but it won’t come, go to bed. When you wake up, the solution may just drop into your brain like some strange angel took an eye-dropper full of imagination and squeezed a bit in your mind. Sleep renews the mind because brain hardware gets a rest.

As a result, some of your best ideas will always come within a few hours of waking up. You can’t wake up if you don’t go to sleep. Beyond simple dreams—which we’ll get to in a moment—getting a good night’s sleep serves to stimulate your imagination overall.

7. Dreams Are Nice, And Sleep Feels Good
Beyond being stimulating in terms of positive emotion, dreams can give you ideas. Many sleep scientists believe that dreams develop as the mind works through the experiences of the day. Well, some of us have had dreams that make that hypothesis questionable. Regardless, almost everyone has had such an amazing dream, they’d love to go back.

If you don’t sleep, you don’t get those dreams. Also, when you’ve had a long day, and your eyes are drooping, and you have to fight to stay awake, and the only thing you can think about is your comfortable bed, finally coming to that place of rest is sort of like a drink of freshwater for the body and mind. Miss sleep and that nourishment disappear.

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Mental And Physical Enablement Through Sleep
Dreams, the general good feeling which comes with sleep, imagination stimulation, occupational security, bodily functionality, social harmony, overall mental health, and emotional stability all rely on solid sleep.

Get yourself the right mattress, determine how you rest best, and be sure every night you get a good six to nine hours of sleep, depending on your personal constitution. It’s good for many reasons; these seven are just the tip of the iceberg.