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Sleep is a natural bodily function just as breathing, eating and drinking are. What you may not realize is just how beneficial sleep is for you and why. Did you know that you will spend a third of your life sleeping? Everyone recognizes the importance of sleep. You know you feel tired and have no energy when you miss sleep, plus your moods and general well being change. A ton of research has gone into understanding the benefits of sleep. Sleep has been shown to help improve immune function, your metabolism, memory as well as your ability to learn. Sleep is required so that your body can run and perform at optimal levels. Sleep has been shown to help your learning and memory function. There are two main benefits connected with this and sleep. The first one is quite simple and that is a person who is deprived of sleep just cannot focus properly, so they will not learn effectively. The second benefit is that after learning something new your memory consolidates this information whil...

When it comes to sleep most people have experienced those nights when you are in a deep sleep, nothing disturbs you, and you wake up feeling refreshed. Then there are those nights where you sleep lightly and get up in the morning feeling more tired than when you went to bed. This can be explained by the stages of sleep. There are two main stages that your body goes through. REM - rapid eye movement NREM - non rapid eye movement The NREM stage can actually be divided into more stages. During the REM stage of sleep your muscles are quiet and not moving. The only exception to this are your eyes. They move rapidly and if you wake up during this stage, you will note that you were dreaming. About 20 to 25 percent of your sleep is done in this stage. The NREM stage of sleep has been subdivided into 3 stages: N1 Sleep N2 Sleep N3 Sleep The N1 stage is the point where you are in a light sleep. Any sudden noises may wake you. People often report that they feel awake when sleepin...