Sleep is one of the basic needs for leading a healthy life. It is a general conception that our brains rest while we sleep. The recent developments in sleep medicine, however, tell a different story. Our brain works during sleep to process and assimilate the information it caught during waking hours. Connections are made and remade, and the body goes into repair mode. Not everyone, however, can boast of a good night’s sleep. In the book “The Twenty four hour mind”, the author Rosalind Cartwright”, a pioneer in her field, details about what could be predispositions and triggers for NREM sleep parasomnias.
It makes us aware one on how our waking life, our behaviour during waking hours, affects our sleep patterns and quality.
She also talks about recognizing signs of early neurodegenerative conditions and depression through changes in sleep patterns.
Clues as to how dream imagery changes in response to stressful events in one’s life and how new information is entwined with the old one, giving our dreams their colourful, bizarre, vivid, outlandish and distinct individual flavour, are scattered throughout the book. To a homoeopath, it will take you into the world of sleep, and would push you towards reading our own repertories and materia medicas in a new light, finding out new meanings and insights.
Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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