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The Ideal Sleep and Self-Recovery through Sleep

1. What exactly is an ideal sleep?
2. Self-Recovery through sleep

1. What exactly is an ideal sleep?

That is something you are not taught at school. However, the past few years, newspapers and magazines publish more and more articles giving advice and hints for a better sleep. It is important that you consciously prepare yourself to going to sleep. Destressing through meditation is ideal. Your body and mind have to be ready to go to sleep. Do not bring your day into your bedroom.

Put yourself to sleep in the room where you feel safe and secure. Wish good night to your partner and lie down in the position you like best. Stretch your body and try to find as large as possible a contact plane with your mattress. It is very important to find a stable recumbent posture from which you do not rapidly turn over. Do not think about anything and let Hypnos take you away. An ideal sleep is disturbed as little as possible by external or internal stimuli.

Deep sleep and REM sleep heal your body and mind; therefore, your deep sleep stages and REM stages should last as long as possible!

In the centre of the sanctuary of medicine in honour of Asclepius there was the temple of sleep of Hypnos.

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2. Sleep-Recovery through Sleep

Deep sleep and REM sleep are mainly interrupted by strong external or internal stimuli. Noise and pain registration, consciously or subconsciously, are the principal causes. The pain that most people register is to be classified as pressure pain. The pressure your mattress exercises on your body is too large. Subconsciously, people have a turning-over reflex. By changing the recumbent posture, you take off the too large pressure from your body. Your skeleton muscles cannot relax!

During deep sleep and REM sleep, there are no large skeleton muscle tensions measured. Turning over too rapidly during the night cuts short your deep sleep; while turning over too frequently around daybreak when your body gets tired of your mattress reduces the REM sleep. In an ideal sleep, you only change your posture a few times during the whole night and certainly not shortly after falling asleep.

In our ideal Western social sleep, you fall asleep very rapidly and you sleep for 8 to 9 hours; always according to your biological clock at the same time and preferably without interruptions or waking up during the night. The fact whether or not you interrupt your deep sleep and your REM sleep or even wake up during the night, is largely determined by the bed on which you lie. But how does the ideal bed for an optimal self-recovery exactly look like?

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