The Backpack Theory
More on sleep, from the archives…
A health guru once described sleep to me this way:
For every hour we are awake, we collect a brick in the metaphorical backpack that we carry around in life.
For every hour that we sleep, we lighten our load by 2 bricks.
So in order to maintain well-rested equilibrium, we must sleep half the time we are awake (i.e., 8 hours a night). One or a few nights of less sleep do not immediately effect most of us, but if that balance is out of whack for too long, we end up with 30 bricks in our backpack. Even getting 7 or 8 hours of sleep doesn’t help much, and we drag ourselves around all day….
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