Sleep

“The experiences of the day are reviewed during sleep and assimilated into new patterns of thought, belief, and future behaviour”

-Colin Rose (Author, Accelerated Learning)

One of the primary functions of sleep is to improve consolidation of information. Several studies have demonstrated that memory depends on getting sufficient sleep between training and test.

Data obtained from neuroimaging studies have shown activation patterns in the sleeping brain which mirror those recorded during the learning of tasks from the previous day, suggesting that new memories may be solidified through such rehearsal.

It’s a fact that you die faster due to lack of sleep than lack of food. Am not trying to scare you or something but you need to sleep especially if learning must be natural!

Sleep deprivation has catastrophic mental effects on a person. In a very public demonstration of sleep deprivation, a disc jockey in New York elected to stay awake for over 200 hours. His hallucinations during; the ‘period’, started out as seeing cobwebs, rabbits and bugs and gradually became serious. He began to imagine that the room was on fire (a mysteriously common hallucination in sleep deprivation), and he began to experience paranoia just after 100 hours.

Make sure you’ve done all that is necessary before you rest! Notice I said, all that is ‘necessary’. That’s why you make hay while the sun shines. Sleep is something no one should be deprived from!

Having time to sleep will involve a lot of discipline and planning (see article on Self-Discipline) and of course too much sleep is not good-there must be balance.

Mothers of children will testify that during the first few days at primary school, their infants are unusually willing to go to bed. They have more novel experiences than usual to review during sleep (Colin Rose, 2003).

Sleep is actually your body’s way of sorting and filing new information received during the day. Trust me, when information is properly ‘filed’, recall becomes remarkable. You know exactly where what you need at the moment is, you don’t mix things up consequently you’re applying little or no effort! In short, like I keep saying, learning becomes natural J!

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