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Being intentional with sleep

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When I was in primary school and we had a trend of writing in each other's "autograph books", I had many friends who wrote their hobby to be "sleep". It puzzled me a lot. I wondered – what is so great about sleep? Why do so many people love sleep?  Then I became a teenager, and then I understood. Haha.  Didn't sleep use to be so different? In the past it used to be: Turn off the light Lie on the bed Let thoughts pass by Until I fell asleep Now it has become:  Turn off the light Lie on the bed Surf or play on my phone until it's too late Fall right asleep It's probably time to return to the former. To give myself that time to think and not let my last thoughts of the day be about my friend's life as shared on Instagram or that news article I just read on Facebook or the YouTube video I just watched.  I was reading this book about using sleep to solve problems. From the one chapter I read it was essentiall