Meditation and sleep patterns
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Recently I saw different people reporting a significant reducing in the necessity of sleep as a result of meditation, and couple cases where psychotherapy also had the same effect.
Is it a common experience? Is there some explanation for its occurrence? Does is causes diminished productivity?
Personally, I would enjoy been able to function while sleeping less.
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Recently I saw different people reporting a significant reducing in the necessity of sleep as a result of meditation, and couple cases where psychotherapy also had the same effect.
Is it a common experience? Is there some explanation for its occurrence? Does is causes diminished productivity?
Personally, I would enjoy been able to function while sleeping less.
Over a decade or so, from the height of my magical-mystical work, I gradually cut my need for sleep in half. In the early 1990s, a night when I got as little as 6 hours was difficult - I needed at least 7, preferably 8. These days, for at least five or six nights a week, I never et more than 5, routinely get 4, and often get by on 3.
I have micro naps in little pockets (as when riding the bus, or an occasional 10-minute break in the day) to let REM reassert itself briefly (and drop into REM almost immediately when I doze).
I'm usually regarded as a very high-functioning person.
I don't think this would have happened without the fruits of initiation.
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Recently I saw different people reporting a significant reducing in the necessity of sleep as a result of meditation, and couple cases where psychotherapy also had the same effect.
Is it a common experience? Is there some explanation for its occurrence? Does is causes diminished productivity?
Personally, I would enjoy been able to function while sleeping less.
That sounds very useful! Little sleep without compromising the ability for intense concentration is something remarkable. It is interesting to think that the need of sleep may be reduced when Ruach and Nephesh are reconciled.
If it is the result of initiation probably it will take a (very long) while until I am able to do the same.