PERFORMANCE THROUGH SLEEP
By Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zulley
Sleep is anything but a quiet phase, for the brain never sleeps. And that has its risks, because an awake, highly active brain is susceptible to disturbances. If outer or inner stimuli hinder sleep, it can interfere with the natural processing function of sleep and prevent the completion of repair and recovery sequences, regardless of whether these stimuli are voluntary or involuntary.
If we consider sleep superfluous or even a waste of time, or a way to get out of doing work, and so don’t assign sleep the importance it really has in our lives, the consequences can be just as dire as with severe sleep deprivation - a fatal mistake of our performance-centric society.
Sleeping Venus. Giorgione, 1510
