A good night sleep

I have been told since young that as we grow old , we have less hours of sleep .  But, this logic bluffs me as it should be the reverse.  As we grow old, we should sleep more to make up for our old age right ? Is this GOD's arrangement that we sleep less , so that we can have more time in this life ? If that is the case, I will understand .

I found out that as we aged , we need to hit the bed early and around 9pm , we will be yarning for sleep . Our eyes will get watery , tired and our eyes goes beyond our control.  When we hit the bed, we either oozed off soonest possible or if our brain is still active, we could drag until 2am or 3am , before we can sleep.

How do we measure sleep ?  It is not the long hours , but rather how deep we sleep.  If there is only 3 hours of deep sleep, it will be fine for us as we will be active the next day.  If our sleep is shallow and we drag on before we fall a sleep, the extra hours of dragging is more harmful to our body.  So short and deep sleep is what we need.

But again, there was an medical report that we have to have a minimum of 7 hours to sleep for us to be active the next day.  Otherwise, we could have different kind of illness if it is in the long run.  I am quite disagreeable to this logic ?  Why should we have this standard ?  The degree of our sleep is very important . If we are conscious during our sleep , even if it is for 10 hours , we are still feeling tired and lethargic . Maybe, the logic is 7 hours of normal sleep .  What is normal sleep ? It is very difficult to define what is the level of sleep to we need. Different people have different needs . It cannot be standardized so easily.


I was told a story of a CEO of the high profile company , sleeping less than 7 hours every day and finally die of heart failure .  This is a very serious warning and  we have to make sure we are not deficit of sleep.  Oversleep is okay but undersleep.  Again, maybe the 7 hours rule is a general rule to live longer and healthier. Nothing is absolute , I think.


it is definite that enough sleep is important and if there is a lack of sleep , we can go crazy and illusion in the long run.  The lack of sleep can make us into another people , who angry with the world . This is serious.


Namaste.