Sublime

the neuro-association you want to have with your bed is sleep

We further found that the acute exercise-induced cognitive enhancements lasted longer than previously known, between 30 minutes and 2 hours after exercise cessation” (Basso et al. 2015).

“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.”

We know now, based on almost twenty years of research, that while we sleep, the brain is constantly working, processing our memories from the day just past. For every two hours we spend awake, taking in new information, it appears that the brain needs to shut down all external inputs for an hour to make time to figure out what it all means. Bob’s f

With a full night of plentiful sleep, we have a balanced mix between our emotional gas pedal (amygdala) and brake (prefrontal cortex). Without sleep, however, the strong coupling between these two brain regions is lost. We cannot rein in our atavistic impulses—too much emotional gas pedal (amygdala) and not enough regulatory brake (prefrontal corte

sleeping brain performs multiple forms of memory evolution. It selects recent salient memories for nocturnal processing, prioritizing emotional memories but also processing unemotional ones; it stabilizes and strengthens some memories while extracting rules and gist from others; and it integrates new memories into older, preexisting knowledge netwo

They tend to increase time spent in stage 2 of sleep, while reducing time in the more restorative deeper stages 3 and 4 and sometimes abolishing REM sleep altogether. This