Sleeping Habits Quotes

“You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”
― Pawan Mishra

“The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.”
― Pawan Mishra

“The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours; it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.”
― Pawan Mishra

“If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Entering the front door, you were at once assailed by a nightmare of cheerlessness and squalor, all the sordid melancholy, at its worst, of any nest of bedrooms where only men sleep;”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement

“Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.”
― Pawan Mishra

“Good sleep hygiene means making the conditions in your bedroom as conducive as possible to sleep. That means banishing all electronic screens--no TVs, no tablets, or phones.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit

“Some people assume that there must be something wrong with a relationship if they discover that partners are sleeping separately. But why? OK, human beings have sex and procreate, but whoever said they had to spend the whole night together in the same bed?”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“I like trains and the romance of traveling by train. When you travel by train, you can’t go wherever you want to go; you have to stay on the train tracks (aka rails) and follow where they run.

When you don’t have a choice of things to do or places to go, the decision to monotask is much easier. Therefore, I like to remind myself to Sleep on rails. Riding the rails (in the comfort of my own bed of course) from one point to another keeps me focused on sleep and prevents me from taking any side trips during the night.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better