Sleeping in the Train yard
As I begin my writing process I wonder what my goal is for my page here. I want to ask questions. I’d like to ask questions that maybe have been asked before. Not all of them may be hard questions. I would like my posts to be about invigorating minds to ask themselves the hard questions. Today I’d like it to be about sleep.
Sleep has been proven to be one of the greatest problem solvers. Why is the standard eight hours for some and only five for others? How can we reduce the amount of sleep we need to make more time in our days? Why do we still have daylight savings time? Do we really still need it?
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They say never to go to sleep angry. But why? If sleep is proven to be one of our greatest problem solvers. Why is excessive sleep seen as a depressive disorder? Seems like a perfect example of correlation is not causation. Dreams hold a strong impact in our lives. I believe they resemble things that may be happening in our own current timeline.
I’ve found lately within the last month. All dreams I’ve had seem to be directly correlated to my current life situations. So it seems prevalent to me that sleep journaling and finding a way to remember as much as I can about these “metaphorical” situations would be prudent.
Now as I am beginning to realize the importance of R.E.M sleep. My next question would be the importance of learning how to reliably lucid dream. The movie Inception has a very interesting take on the subject. Could we change our lives simply by mindfully sleeping?
Title is a song called “Sleeping in the Trainyard” by the metalcore band Gwen Stacy
