3/ Quality sleep is essential for learning and memory consolidation

A balanced sleep cycle is required for memory consolidation.

Deep sleep: allows filtering through the short term memories and learnings of the day, and the selection of most significant memory bits to be…

I don't want to do this, but you need to hear this.

Sleep deprivation lowers IQ, increases toxic beta-amyloid buildup, and raises brain damage markers linked to stroke.

Learn how high quality sleep boosts the brain.
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0/ Sleep deprivation is brain damage

Shorter sleep correlated with lower IQ-test performance in school children.

1/ A single night of sleep deprivation increased beta amyloid load in the brain by 5%, this is the plaque-causing protein beta-amyloid in the brain by 5%.

There's many focused on the short term; enough of us need to think on the very long term.

Do this structured daydream for 15 min today:

close your eyes, relax, and imagine you're an alien that's just arrived on earth. What do you observe?

A cheeky answer is fine, also, spend 15 min as it sharpens creativity, reduces stress, and strengthens memory.

@chainyoda glad you see this

My best self is in a slight state of hunger.

@thelillygaddis I taste delicious and am low in heavy metals

@brigtaylor Yes we’ve given a lot of thought to this idea. The challenge is a scale problem: humanity needs rehab.