There is a suggestion everybody gives whenever I feel tired. It is not something which is thought provoking, but after following the suggestion I was forced to think about the credibility of it. You must be thinking what suggestion can be so thought provoking. It is "Go and relax. Sleep for an hour or two and you will feel fresh". This morning when I got up, I was more tired than what I was at the time of sleeping. I did some introspection but couldn't find the answers to the questions like "Why am I tired after sleeping 7 hours?", "Why am I sweating like I have jogged for 10 hours?", "Why should I sleep if I get tired after it?", "Am I doing anything wrong while sleeping?" (What the hell can I do while sleeping. Damn it! I am anyway sleeping).
I thought of finding the answers of all these questions. Firstly, I think I was feeling tired after sleep because my brain was still working. I had lots of dreams (with a fair share of sweet ones). Now how can I switch my brain off? How about few drinks before sleeping to switch off the same? (But my other logic says, after drinking brain starts working faster.) Or sleep less as per the assumptions of item number 3 below? (But if sleep helps relax, how can sleeping less relax me?) Will try both of then and tell you in my next blog.
Secondly, I was sweating because it was very hot in Bangalore (unfortunately not because of chicks). In such a hot night, if you sleep with a blanket, weighing 2 kilos, you are bound to sweat like an athlete. So what is the solution? All of you must be thinking of advising me to pack the blanket and put it in cupboard. But I am not going to follow your advice and I am going to buy an A/C. (AC in Bangalore? It still raises lots of eye-brows, whenever I discuss the same). Now with AC, I can keep the blanket and get up without sweat.
Third question is very interesting. It prompts me to think, what else I can do to relax because anything I do in excess is going to tire me off. So just to make sure, I don't do anything in excess, I will have to diversify my portfolio of things to do to relax. I will publish the portfolio later.
Last but not the least; I tried to find the things I am doing incorrectly while or before sleeping. I analyzed various things like changing the position while sleeping, changing the position of headrest, flipping the sides of mattress, changing the bed sheets & pillow covers. Apart from these I also thought of switching from shorts to track pants and from t-shirt to kurta. But none of these things seem to convince me. So the bulb of my mind got ignited and I thought of having a bath before going to bed. (Bulb and bath? Do they have any relation?) Will try and let you know the results.
On the basis of above assertions, I conclude that sleep is not the only thing, which relaxes somebody. There are number of other factors along with sleep, which helps a person recuperate. So next time you find somebody tired, think before you say "Go and relax. Sleep for an hour or two and you will feel fresh".
On the basis of above assertions, I conclude that sleep is not the only thing, which relaxes somebody. There are number of other factors along with sleep, which helps a person recuperate. So next time you find somebody tired, think before you say "Go and relax. Sleep for an hour or two and you will feel fresh".
4 comments:
hey, how about a 'mast' massage before sleeping.. that might help you relax before sleeping so that the sleep will multiple the relaxing effect and you will be full of 'chusti and sfurti' in the morning :)
Bath is really a good idea. It should help. I have read somewhere (am not able to find the link) that people have relaxing cycles. Confused - so am I. So let me try to explain. The article said that if you have a sleeping cycle of lets say 3 hrs. you will actually feel tired if you wake up after 4 or 5 hrs of sleep. You need to sleep for a multiple of your sleep cycle. Still confused :-). Try this - vary your sleeping time for a week or two - note down the freshness level in the morning and number of hrs. of sleep and bingo you will find the right amount of sleep time. If you are still confused - "Go and relax. Sleep for an hour or two and you will feel fresh" - bu make sure you know whether it is one or two
Is there a machine, in which you can just sit and it tell me my sleep cycle. Or if somebody has some formula on basis of height, weight, haemoglobin, RBC count and WBC count, please give the same to me so I don;t have to re-invent the wheel.
All these tests costs you about a lakh. That will make you spend sleepless nights. Pay me a lakh, I shall tell your sleep cycle time
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