I love to sleep, and can sleep almost anywhere, and not in the bad way. I really mean sleeping. The best nap is in the movie theatre. Unfortunately I can snore. The next best nap is on the sofa in front of the TV. Oh, what a wonderful sleep you get as the soft glo bathes your lightly snoring face.
Well, if you notice the time of this post, you'll see that I'm up before the crack of dawn. Perhaps I love sleep so much because I have trouble staying asleep. When I'm stressed, I cannot quiet my mind. Also when I'm deeply stressed and it becomes depression, all I can do is sleep.
Sleep is both amazing and scary as all heck. It's a mini-death. It's also rejuvenating. You awake vitalized, or should at least. I hear that some types of mental states, and drugs, keep you awake for days. I have two college degrees so of course I've done all-nighters. When you're young staying up for 48 hours is a challenge. When you're old staying up for 16 hours is torture and it's also a normal day.
As I started typing this post, I knew that I should be pulling out my exercise DVDs and stretching instead of sitting on my Behind typing about exercise. I have heard, but I really can't recall this from personal experience, that an exercised body sleeps better. It's also been "proven" that a poorly balanced diet negatively effects sleep. Yeppers, I don't eat well nor do I exercise. Maybe I should just pull the plug now.
Do you know that I have a page of stick figure stretches right here on my desk? I also have a TV tuner on my PC. I'm watching, or rather listening about the brain. Don't you just love PBS!?! My plan, it's 4:13 AM now, is to take my page of stick figures, find my yoga mat and go to the big TV, watch the brain show and stretch my body. After all that, I still will not have time to go back to sleep as I will have to start my long a&& day. Sigh, long deep breath, oh well. I'll get to take a nap on Wednesday evening around 7 PM.