hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, eyes closed, muscles relaxed, and consciousness is in a sense suspended. In the early 1950’s we thought sleep was the recurring activity that involves our brains “shutting down.” Research since then has found that our brains are very well active while we sleep. Sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health, a balance between too little and too much, with the ideal amount of hours asleep is between seven and…
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