We all sleep. Or, at least most of us do.

I’ve been reading a fairly recent popular science book called Why We Sleep lately, and though I haven’t finished reading it yet, I have been influenced quite a bit by it to take sleep much more seriously than I’m used to. The author describes a lot of scenarios and effects of sleep quality in detail, and gives you a lot to think about in terms of identifying where you may be headed towards, health-wise, in the long term, as a result of poor sleeping habits.

At least it gave me a lot to think about. I have had terribly sleep patterns for a while now, and I really needed something like this to bring about a change in my perspective towards sleep. Let’s see how that goes.

There have been some scathing criticisms of the book (as is probably the case with every popular science or psychology book), and there also has been a repsonse by the author, the “sleep diplomat”, to these criticisms. That may be the case, but I have nevertheless started giving more importance to the phenomenon of sleep thanks to him. Even if a lot of the claims turn out false, the ones that do hold true still present a good enough case to work on developing a good sleeping habit.

Given how the brain starts shutting down (seemingly, rather) just before a person falls asleep, it’d be interesting to note down what enters their mind in the period leading up to falling asleep. For one, taking a diary and noting down the vague references or ideas that enter the brain at that point may be a good start towards understanding ourselves on sleep. That’s what I’m calling sleepwrite - write just around sleep time.

The meta aspect here is that I’m sleepwriting right now. I have no idea what I’ll wake up to tomorrow. There’s some song playing in the background, I’m getting some jumbled thoughts and ideas, but I can feel I’m drifiting into slumberland. Some YouTube cahhne has starte [ocing up pas and reling weven it not ided.

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