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It's a vast territory of mystery, which Shakespeare once termed, "night's second self".
We sleep as it is needed.
It's an inevitable part of our life.
But a simple general knowledge about sleeping can make this almost overlooked part a strongly enhancing factor of our life.
Let us take a deeper look at some interesting sleep facts.
The old biology goes, sleep more, and feel good.
We know that at least eight hours should be spent on sleep a day.
We are, Bernard Shaw said, "slave to nature for that".
But the recent neo-scientific theory demonstrates the lesser we sleep, the more energetic we feel.
It may sound heretic, almost breaking the standard norm of understanding.
But the bone of contention goes; five to six hours of sleeping can make you healthier and increase concentration levels.
In fact, you may be taken aback hearing the fact that the world's busiest people, CEOs, entrepreneurs, scientists, whose minds are constantly crowded with different pressures, sleep only four hours and wake up fresh to face the challenges nearby.
With the fast changing world, strongly dependent on electronics, you have really a lesser time to adapt to it, both physically and professionally.
Thus, there may have been some change in biological need as well.
Is the change destructive? Are those people victim of insomnia? Or they have some secret mystery.
No it's not a men's fairness cream.
The truth is the more you sleep, the lazier you become.
You don't need to go through any biology book for that.
Experience it.
Sleep more than usual, you will feel tired.
If you have no work, you will develop yourself into a couch potato, glued to TV.
After a particular point of time, you are bound to feel bored or irritated.
So goes the nature of sleeping as well.
Oversleeping makes you feel exhausted, and consequently lazy.
But the other way round, sleep less and feel vibrant.
This is astonishing that people are performing well while sleeping less.
Actually, the old calculation goes, you sleep eight hours a day.
This mathematics strips you off one third of your life.
The quarter of the rest is gone in performing nature's duties.
How can this retreating theory work for the busiest? In fact, this order has been set according to the load of the work.
Previously people had much time to perform their work.
But this ultra-sophisticated world demands from you more time to ameliorate it better.
Thus the order of sleeping has lessened accordingly.
Science is in no way opposed to that.
It's only a matter of adaptation.
Now, prepare the statistics.
Eight hours of sleeping gives sixteen hours of work.
Add four hours to your work by deducting it from sleeping, and then calculate it for the next ten years.
The amount can fulfill any number of dreams you set.
In fact, you waste one-third of your life by sleeping.
Imagine how much you could cover if you were able to dedicate just two hours extra to your work? There's a difference between sleep facts and actual sleep requirements of a certain individual.
Indeed some of us are capable of sleeping for 5 to 6 hours a night.
However some people may require 8 to 9 hours.
We are all different and it's our age, genetic make-up and sex to name a few that determine our sleep needs.
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