Glimpse of Sleep

Beating yourself up for not performing well when you're already running in fumes? We choose artificial way to squeeze out few more hours to get work done, you are ruined by your own self useless thoughts about sleep.

What if I say sleep is not a waste of time it is fuel for a superfast engine (brain)?

1.The filling process:

Ever wake up and wonder if your brain had a sneaky overnight tidying-up operation? That's about what it does.

your brain during the day as a busy office, sticky notes (short-term memories) plastering every surface.

At night, it's like the busy night shift staff move in. They take those important sticky notes and file them away neatly in the long-term memory filing cabinets.

That's what happens to your brain during sleep, you recover lost memories or turn forgettable things into more permanent ones.

2.Brain Detoxification: The Brain's Cleansing Ritual

Take a brain to as a city. During the day, it's a madhouse of activity, neurons firing, ideas coming into existence, emotions flowing, and memories being formed.

But, like any city, all this activity generates rubbish, metabolic waste, "traffic jams" of information, and cellular debris.

If this rubbish isn't removed, it will accumulate and lead to slowness, inefficiency, and even long-term harm. Imagine the streets of a city never being swept anarchy would quickly follow.

This is where sleep comes in, it is the cleaning system of the brain at night. When you sleep, something important happens.

Deep within the brain, there is a special cleaning mechanism known as the glymphatic system that comes into action.

It is like an army of cleaning workers that comes out at night to sweep the system.

3.The Rhythm Within: Decoding Your Internal Clock

Our bodies operate on an internal clock that ticks approximately on a 24-hour cycle, called the “circadian rhythm”, a basic sequence that controls much more than our sleep-wake cycle.

The internal clock, controlled by the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), prescribes a broad range of daily rhythms, from hormone secretion to body temperature swings, metabolic rates, and even our moods and levels of alertness.

Interestingly, this endogenous rhythm is not perfectly synchronized with the 24-hour day it tends to tick a few minutes longer.

In order to stay in phase with the outside world, our circadian clock relies on external signals referred to as 'zeitgebers,' the most powerful of which is sunlight, as well as factors such as eating times, exercise, and social contact.

If you have a craving to learn more about sleep, stay tuned for our next newsletter, where we'll go deeper into this concept.