Sleeping on it
Has anyone ever advised you to “sleep on it” when you have an overactive or troubled brain?
You head to bed, but pesky issues from your work or dilemmas in your personal life can get in the way of a solid night’s sleep. Fortunately, the human body desperately requires sleep’s restorative powers to get through daily life, so even insomniacs will eventually drift off into slumber.
Yes, sleep is touted as essential to re-booting our bodies physically, but I never cease to be amazed by how often all those zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs serve to sort out mental clutter.
As novelist William Golding once wrote, “Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
You head to bed struggling with a problem and you wake up in the morning, or maybe even at some point during the night, with a solution. I often keep a notepad on my bedside table for jotting down these nocturnal revelations before they slip away from my sieve-like brain.
Your mind couldn’t solve the issues by day, but add some downtime for that noggin of yours and answers creep in. Sleeping on it may be odd, but that doesn’t make it any less…
AWESOME!
You head to bed, but pesky issues from your work or dilemmas in your personal life can get in the way of a solid night’s sleep. Fortunately, the human body desperately requires sleep’s restorative powers to get through daily life, so even insomniacs will eventually drift off into slumber.
Yes, sleep is touted as essential to re-booting our bodies physically, but I never cease to be amazed by how often all those zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs serve to sort out mental clutter.
As novelist William Golding once wrote, “Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
You head to bed struggling with a problem and you wake up in the morning, or maybe even at some point during the night, with a solution. I often keep a notepad on my bedside table for jotting down these nocturnal revelations before they slip away from my sieve-like brain.
Your mind couldn’t solve the issues by day, but add some downtime for that noggin of yours and answers creep in. Sleeping on it may be odd, but that doesn’t make it any less…
AWESOME!
Good one, Lise. I love when you sleep on it ... and find a solution. At a bare minimum, you get to sleep, which is good. Actually, in my books it's one of the best ways to relax!!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Cindy.
ReplyDeleteA settled brain + a sleeping body = all is well!