{"id":67684,"date":"2019-01-30T02:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=67684"},"modified":"2019-10-29T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:54:41","slug":"opened-random-sleep-unlocking-power-sleep-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/01\/30\/opened-random-sleep-unlocking-power-sleep-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Opened at Random: Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we opened <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2CRqflL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams<\/a> by Matthew Walker, PhD at random and found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Sleep dispenses a multitude of health-ensuring benefits, yours to pick up in repeat prescription every twenty-four hours, should you choose<\/strong>. (Many don&#8217;t)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Within the brain, sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions and choices.<strong> Benevolently servicing our psychological health, sleep recalibrates our emotional brain circuits<\/strong>, allowing us to navigate next-day social and psychological challenges with cool-headed composure. We are even beginning to understand the most impervious and controversial of all conscious experiences: the dream. <strong>Dreaming provides a unique suite of benefits<\/strong> to all species fortunate enough to experience it, humans included. Among these gifts are a consoling neurochemical\u00a0bath that mollifies painful memories and a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge, inspiring creativity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Downstairs in the body, <strong>sleep restocks the armory of our immune system<\/strong>, helping fight malignancy, prevent infection, and warding off all manner of sickness. <strong>Sleep reforms the body&#8217;s metabolic state<\/strong> by fine-tuning the balance of insulin and circulating glucose. Sleep further regulates our appetite, helping control body weight through healthy food selection rather than rash impulsivity.<strong> Plentiful sleep maintains a flourishing microbiome <\/strong>within your gut from which we know so much of our nutritional health begins. Adequate sleep is intimately tied to the fitness of our cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure while keeping our hearts in fine condition.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<strong>It is difficult to imagine any other state \u2014natural or medically manipulated \u2014that affords a more powerful redressing of physical and mental health at every level of analysis<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we opened Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams at random and found this&#8230;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/01\/30\/opened-random-sleep-unlocking-power-sleep-dreams\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8361,1860],"tags":[11850,862,11851],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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