Clarification to all those dumb who thought I actually meant sleeping?

Question

When I asked if lying with your eyes closed counts as slleping at all, I didnt mean are you actually asleep, because obviously you are not. I meant does your body and mind recover at all as if you were asleep.

Answer 1

I understood your first question, some people have no tolerance in Yahoo Answers....I guess they are perfect.

Not as good as sleep, no. If you lie down with your eyes closed it will help but only as if you were resting. Sleep slows everything down a bit more, including blood pressure, this helps the organs to rest. While lying with your eyes closed your muscles are resting but not your organs,

Answer 2

This is a tricky question and an area that is being greatly researched by psychologists, medics and scientists the world over. The truth is that nobody really understands the true nature of sleep. Brain wave measurements show that we have four major types of sleep, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep being the period when the brain's activity is most similar to waking and the portion in which we dream.

Some scientists believe that there is something yet to be understood about sleep which makes it fundemental to our rest and recovery from our daily activities. Others believe sleep is an evolutionary mechanism for keeping us out of harms way during the hours of darkness while we would not be out and about finding food.

Whether simply lying still for eight hours can provide the same level of mental and physical recovery as actual sleep can remains to be proved either way.

Various studies have shown the following:
1) Rest (not sleep) does aid recovery (e.g. from illness, injury, or as used by athletes between training sesions).
2) Sleep deprivation detrimentally affects our ability to perform mental tasks, co-ordination tasks and physical exercise and our immune systems.

In conclusion, rest and meditation are beneficial and aid periods of recovery, but sleep is more beneficial than just rest.

Watch this space...

Answer 3

I didn't see your first question so I didn't respond to it. However I think it works for some people but not all. Sometimes a person can close their eyes to relax but not fall to sleep. They feel refreshed like they would if they would have taken a nap. It don't work for everyone though.

Answer 4

good question!!!! ur mind would still be working as much (well obviously not processing images) with thoughts and sounds going through ur head. Ya know the whole process of sleeping baffles me! how can we just shut off for a few hours, its mad!!!!!

Answer 5

No, because you're not actually asleep. You're asking if resting is as restorative as actual sleep. No, it's not. Next question.

Answer 6

Yes just lying with your eyes closed and turning off the mind can be as restfull as a full blown sleep.

My mother even as a young women used to have forty winks as she used to call it every afternoon. After which she was revived and ready to go again.

So close yours eyes and let your self float away ..................

Answer 7

That woulbe just relaxing.....it wouldn't do as much good for yopu as a proper sleep but it does recharge the batteries for a wee while x

Answer 8

they say that a person in a truely relaxed state is as good as sleeping, meditation also has it's benefits however, it is the REM part of sleep which is required for a healthy mind

Answer 9

your body doesn't rest just because you close your eyes. your body rests when sleeping because your functions are entering a stand-by mode. sort of like a computer: it doesn't enter stand-by just by shutting down the monitor.

Answer 10

i knew what you meant coz i sometimes wonder this. pretty sure resting is good for you but obviously sleep is only way to fully recharge your batteries