Sleep and consciousness
The definition of the word "sleep", to rest one's mind and body by becoming temporarily unconscious. Some say sleeping is likened to being temporarily dead. Actually, sleeping is an activity when damaged living tissues and dead cells are replenished and rejuvenated to life, in contrast to being dead which sets off "rigor mortis" proceeded by decomposition of the physical. Ironically, we use up and destroy our bodies' living tissues every moment we spent being awake.
If you ever think that sleeping is a waste of your time, think again. The limited human brain can only experience so much of consciousness. The events you are experiencing as if time and space is moving forward is actually your brain cells being used or filled up by physical processes. This actually depletes the physical brain as cells are exchange for perception of (metaphysical) time and space - the aging process of our brain. As you perceive, your brain matures. The brain can deplete up to about sixty-five human calendar years net of sleeping or "recharging time". Presumably, a body and brain more deprived of sleeping is naturally depleted more than one which pause and recharges every often. Ideally, for every hour you spent depleting body and brain cells by being awake and conscious, you need half an hour to recharge or replenish by being asleep. The ratio then is one to half. In a twenty-four hours cycle, if you spent sixteen hours awake, you would need the remaining eight hours asleep, more or less, variable on habit and genetic make. Conversely, if you are the type who stays awake most often that you max out your available sixty-five human calendar years of waking time, your body will naturally counteract by finding ways to demand an earlier phase of an everlasting sleep.
If you ever think that sleeping is a waste of your time, think again. The limited human brain can only experience so much of consciousness. The events you are experiencing as if time and space is moving forward is actually your brain cells being used or filled up by physical processes. This actually depletes the physical brain as cells are exchange for perception of (metaphysical) time and space - the aging process of our brain. As you perceive, your brain matures. The brain can deplete up to about sixty-five human calendar years net of sleeping or "recharging time". Presumably, a body and brain more deprived of sleeping is naturally depleted more than one which pause and recharges every often. Ideally, for every hour you spent depleting body and brain cells by being awake and conscious, you need half an hour to recharge or replenish by being asleep. The ratio then is one to half. In a twenty-four hours cycle, if you spent sixteen hours awake, you would need the remaining eight hours asleep, more or less, variable on habit and genetic make. Conversely, if you are the type who stays awake most often that you max out your available sixty-five human calendar years of waking time, your body will naturally counteract by finding ways to demand an earlier phase of an everlasting sleep.
Parallax: Consciousness is the perceptive reality which you experienced as time and space moving forward. It is a process whereby your physical body and brain depletes living tissue cells in exchange for the perception of time and space. Because the body and brain are physical, it will relate to a perceptive reality bound by physical limitations.
Parallax: Observe for instance an ant, its brain is so small compared to a human. We see the ant because our brains are way larger than it. But the ant sees us not. Even after stepping or crashing it, would just be in total blankness as to what in the world happened. It could even simply put the blame on accident, bad luck or curse, just as humans do whenever something happened beyond their analytical prowess. When comparing our inability to see beyond the physical, we become as ants. We combed the uttermost of space using the produce of technology and gadgetry, in the hope of finding the origin of life, not realizing that time and space exist because, we are not limited to five senses as we have always pressumed to be. We became ignorant as our perceptive realities were confined to what is supposedly only five senses - sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. The instruments we used were inept, as themselves were designs of the physical, to detect the physical. Notwithstanding our brains being too small and limited of perception and channels compared to that of our creator, maker of life. Imagine a living entity not bound by a physical body and brain. No time nor space.
We may never see a totality beyond a perceptive one because, our brains persistently interprets a reality bound by time and space. Transcended beyond a perceptive reality which is not physically perceivable, no time, no space, is a summation of totality - potentialities, possibilities, alternatives, intents, good and evil. Our creator laughs at us just as we did at the ants.
