If sleep is supposed to help the body restore itself and heal itself, how come when I get a cold or bad throat it develops in the night and I wake up with it? I never develop anything like that during the day, only at night.
Sqad, if nothing has been proved about restorative benefits of sleep, does that mean that the theories about the damage to the body by lack of sleep are unproven too?
Sleep deprivation..........starts with a healthy person.......and then one investigates the adverse effects and then assumes that the adverse effects are indeed due to sleep deprivation, which it usually does.
Restoration benefits of sleep is a different matter and one starts with an unhealthy person and one would have to exclude all medication to assess the effects of sleep alone and that would be ethically unacceptable.
I try to sleep myself better, in conjunction with appropriate medication.
I fully accept that being asleep throughout an illness probably lessens the perceived affects of the illness.
I think that we do develop lurgies throughout the day but there are so many distractions that we often fail to recognise the signs, or we can explain it away through that days events......
It knits up the raveled sleeve of care, the death of each days life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great natures second course, chief nourisher in lifes feast...
I like my kip.