Yet another reading to help me discover the aspects of sleep that I may want to explore linking to my Imprints....
(Quotes I like...)
"...lack of sleep erodes our quality of life and performance while simultaneously making us more vulnerable to injuries and illness." pg. 4
"The mere presence of an alarm clock implies sleep deprivation, what a bedroom lacks an alarm clock?", James Gleick, "Faster" 1999.
"The mythical inhabitants of Sir Thomas More's idyllic island state of Utopia accorded sleep the priority it truly deserves. They slept for 8 solid hours each night. Of the remaining 16 hours, work accounted for only 6. The Utopians worked for 3 hours before noon then ate lunch, after lunch they rested for 2 hours, worked another 3 and then ate supper. They went to bed at about 8 in the evening and slept for 8 hours. The rest of each day they did as they pleased." pg. 22
"Marketers and technologists anticipate your desires with fast ovens, quick playback, quick freezing and fast credit. We bank the extra minutes that flow from these innovations, yet we feel impoverished and we cut back - on breakfast, on lunch, on sleep, on daydreams." James Gleick, pg. 27
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