You’ve probably heard of the deep sleep – REM sleep. Generally we enter into 1 1/2 hour periods of rest, awaken and fall immediately back to sleep. When we our sleep is fulfilled, we awake refreshed.
Now, you’ve heard of the Einstein syndrome, where you sleep for 15 minutes and awaken refreshed (based on the “cat naps” the Albert Einstein supposedly took during his daily routine). There was a pastor who used to close his door, tell his secretary he was busy, and drop off for a few minutes. I’m not sure how refreshed he was afterwards, but he claimed he was.
So today, I came home and lay down for 20 minutes. I usually turn on talk radio — when I’m tired that immediately puts me to sleep. As the 20 minutes came to an end, I heard the news just beginning.
Great alarm clock. At the same time the phone rang and I jumped from bed.
I felt very refreshed. Of course, you have to put the day in context. I had pulled in front of one car, couldn’t quite get the car to park properly, and somehow my mind was wandering. All signs that the sleep battery is slowing down.
Now, if I hit the sack at 11:00, I’ll awaken at 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30 and 8:00. Of course, I usually get up at 3:00/3:30 for about an hour — read the Bible, journal and pray — so that sets the schedule off by an hour.
When all is said and done, it takes more brain power to figure out the sleep schedule than to just do it!
Maybe that’s why most people could never be accountants — most of us are more interested in spending the money than in figuring out how much we have to spend.
Maybe that’s why we need more accountants — at least we wouldn’t be quite as broke!!