On the one hand, I agree that sleep wastes valuable time. If we didn't need to sleep, we could be more effective. We would have more possibilities to upgrade our daily life. It would be very useful for 24/7 services.
On the other hand, our dreams can be useful as well. For example, some great scientific discoveries were made in a dream. It seems sleep expands our mind.
Young people always agree that sleep wastes valuable time, so the first half of our life we constantly fight against sleep (when we have to prepare for exams, when we have little children and other cases). However, the last half of our life we fight against the insomnia. Very often it's because of our irregular sleeping before. That's why we have to find a golden middle, because our mental health is the most valuable thing in the world.
PS. To be honest I can hardly imagine lifestyle without sleeping.
For sure, our sleeping patterns changed over the years. A million years ago, we need to escape from night predators, so we had to be at the shelter and we had a lot of time for sleeping. Also we had to get enough sleep to survive, because our life depended on our physical abilities. Nowadays a lot of people are sleep deprived, because of work, stresses and wasting night ours in the internet.
As I have mentioned before in my previous articleessay, I think we need to find a golden middle between the oversleeping and the insomnia. Sleep wastes valuable time, but at the same time it makes us stronger.
If I don't get enough sleep, my head always becomes heavy and I cannot make fast decisions. If it's possible, I always try to take a nap. Fortunately, I have been working distantly last year, so it's not a problem to find a half an hour between my business meetings.
What about my tips to get a good sleep, firstly I recommend physical outdoor activities. Secondly, I would recommend not wasting your night time in the internet before the sleep. Finally, I would like to say that alcohol drinks are bad helpers for sleeping. Maybe you will fall asleep, but your brain won't get enough rest.
You write well in English. I enjoyed reading this. We are beginning to realise just important it is for our health to get a good night's sleep.
I trust that the original post was "tongue in cheek"-- that is, offered with an ironic, satyrical twist. In fact, sleeping is really critical for one's entire body -- and particularly the brain -- to rest and reorder cells. During periods of sleep, the body's cells do housekeeping -- literally repairing and discarding cells that are damaged, old, etc. (I recently heard about "autophagy" and cell repair and recommend reading about it online: quite fascinating.) During sleep, the brain reorders and thinks things through that a person was working on during the day. "To sleep on it" -- an idea, problem, project -- is in fact sound advice because the brain figures out things and solidifies them when sleeping. (This is very helpful for language learning.) There are also various stages of sleep which have different functions and if one is deprived of deep sleep (so-called "Rem"), one's overall health, immunity, and emotional resilience suffers. Those who habitually do not get enough sleep are apt to get sick more quickly, take longer to recover and in fact are more prone to dementia: no joke! So don't short change the value of sleeping and going through all of its phases.
A few minor corrections: I know that Russian doesn't have "the" but you are overcompensating a bit and inserting it where it is not necessary. For example, no "the" before "oversleeping," "insomnia," "sleep." In English, we say that someone is working "remotely," or "from home" since last year. In addition, we work "on the internet" (not "in"), and we refer to "alcoholic drinks." A "helper" generally is used to refer to a person who helps so in your sentence it would be better to say that "alcoholic drinks are a poor aids or that they are not recommended for sleeping." (We use the term "bad advice" but would not say,"bad aid." ) Hope this is helpful.
I find this topic very interesting and I like the way you organized this article/essay. Have you ever looked into alternative polyphasic sleep methods such as the Everyman or Uberman cycles?
Good work man! I really appreciated reading it. Thanks