Sublime

REM sleep is vital for promoting brain maturation.

The goal, therefore, is to increase the total power of consciousness available for both attention and awareness.

“It’s almost as though, without sleep, the brain had reverted back to more primitive patterns of activity, in that it was unable to put emotional experiences into context and produce controlled, appropriate responses.”

The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.

With a sleep-deprived prefrontal cortex, say goodbye to your will-power and self-control. If you are prone to overeating or indulging in junk food, just one single night of sleep loss is enough to sidetrack your best efforts at a healthy diet.

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

divides the world into those, like himself, who were born to sleep and those, like his master, who were born to watch.

simply walking thirty minutes a day lowered the risk of dementia by about 65 percent.