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List the importances of Sleep.

List the importances of Sleep.

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Kavungya
- Restorative: after exhaustive normal day’s activities we sleep to have our bodies re-energized. We wake up in the morning feeling more energetic than we slept last night
- Adaptive: we sleep to avoid pain or even unfavorable conditions in our environment
- Long-term memory consolidation: when we sleep, materials in our long term memory are able to perform a skill better next day after a night’s sleep
- Growth promoting: during deep sleep, our brains produce a growth-promoting hormone. Children therefore experience long periods of deep sleep than grown ups
Kavungya answered the question on May 8, 2019 at 08:07

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