Quotes About Sleep

Time is like that. Especially when you're young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn't fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Love is a dream someone else had last night.

That can reduce inflammation, rebuild tissue, and normalize immunity, whereas getting insufficient quality sleep will have the opposite effect.

There's a scientific debate about the precise scale of our sleep loss, but the National Sleep Foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20 percent in just a hundred years.

We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago.

If you take five milligrams of melatonin—which is often a standard dose that's sold over the counter in the U.S.—Roxanne said you risk "blowing out your melatonin receptors," which would make it harder to sleep without them.

Scientists measure the depth of someone's depression using something named the Hamilton scale, which was invented by a scientist named Max Hamilton in 1959. The Hamilton scale ranges from 0 (where you're skipping along merrily) to 51 (where you're jumping in front of trains). To give you a yardstick: you can get a six-point leap in your Hamilton score if you improve your sleeping patterns

Our Western society is a bit ADHD-ish because we're all sleep-deprived…. It's huge.

The internet arrived for most of us in the late 1990s, into a society where the middle class was starting to crumble and where financial insecurity was rising, and we were sleeping an hour less than people did in 1945. It would always have been hard to resist the sophisticated human-hacking of surveillance capitalism, but it appeared we were already getting weaker, and we were easier to hack than we would have been otherwise.

I don't look at screens for two hours before I go to bed,

Sleep is a really important balance of many, many neurotransmitters, and if you artificially…pump up one, it changes the balance of that sleep.

When we sleep, our minds start to identify connections and patterns from what we've experienced during the day. This is one of the key sources of our creativity—it's why narcoleptic people, who sleep a lot, are significantly more creative.

Throughout the day, in your brain, a chemical called adenosine is building up, and it signals to you when you are sleepy. Caffeine blocks the receptor that picks up on the level of adenosine. "I liken it to putting a Post-it note over your fuel-gauge indicator. You're not giving yourself more energy—you're just not realizing how empty you are. When the caffeine wears off, you're doubly exhausted.

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

Sleep deprivation damages memory as well.

O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.

I'll see the sprouts in the morning when you wake up from sleep, and with glee look at the way the bright sun, I'll see it...And then I have no more desire for others the whole day. Everything, everything is covered with these expectations.

God knows, I often lie down to sleep with the desire, even sometimes the hope, not to wake up again.

To have your every wish, desire, Wake, regard the glorious light! What holds you bound is a mild power, Sleep's a shell, break out of it! Up, no lagging, boldly does it; Though the crowd doubts and delays, All's possible to a brave spirit 4830 Who sees, and seeing's quick to seize.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.