Sleep: The Healing Dark

Everybody sleeps - perhaps not as long or as well as they might wish, but sooner or later everyone eventually falls into the dark black hole our bodies need to function. William Shakespeare even called it the ?chief nourisher in life?s feast.?

In fact, every living creature on Earth sleeps. Even sharks, which swim 24 hours each day, are able to shut down half their brains so they can catch some shut eye. In all, we devote a third of our lives to slumbering, yet biologists remain at a loss as to why we need it so badly. Click here for full article.