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The Great History Of Sleep Part 1: Homeostasis the key element
Sleep is a balance trick
There was always a need for sleep
Sleep or a daily period of rest, has been part of life since the beginning of evolutionary time.
In humans, sleep patterns have changed over the centuries, even if our need for sleep has not. At various periods throughout history, people have gone to great lengths to make sleep more comfortable or incorporated sleep into their lives.
Like the necessity for food and physical movement, sleep has been a constant need throughout history,
Our perception has changed a lot throughout evolution. For sure because of the way how science for sleep has been improved in the last two decades or so, and has validated much of the ancient wisdom about the importance of sleep. Many of our ideas about sleep have varied from culture to culture.
Perhaps we are experiencing an exponential curve of awareness,
Researchers are continuously searching to fill the gaps about what exactly is happening while we sleep on a biological level.
We need to understand that sleep is a state where we do things necessary for ourselves which we are not…
