“My mother told me to follow my dreams, so I took a nap.” — Unknown

Insufficient sleep significantly impacts productivity by impairing cognitive functions, reducing alertness, and hindering performance in various tasks. A lack of sleep can lead to decreased attention span, slower reaction times, poor decision-making, and reduced creativity, all of which negatively affect work performance

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygiene/good-sleep-and-job-performance

Body clock and Sleep

routine; clues

exposure to light

Apparently, we are the only mammals that willingly delay sleep.

homeopathy for all sleep challenges

Environmental factors such as noise and heat

Caregivers

Cocculus

Unable to sleep due to worrying about business
Bryonia (wakes up suddenly at 3am or desire for stool

Cocculus

Hyoscyamus, Ambra Grisia, Gelsemium, Sepia, Calcera carbonica, Kali Bromatum, Uranium

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” — Charlotte Brontë

Prescriptive worrying

Fear of the dark

Calc, Causticum, Stramonium, Phosphorus, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla

Hot flushes and sleep

Time of waking -

This is relatable to TCM organ clock

for example: liver

Lung

Staphisagria Strong tendency to sleep all day.-Violent yawning and stretching, which cause tears to come into the eyes.-Sleep retarded by mental activity (crowding of ideas); or in consequence of an itching and burning sensation in the tetters and ulcers, or of violent pains in calves.-Sleepy all day; awake all night; body aches all over.-Jerking of limbs, when sleeping. Lascivious dreams, with emissions.

Coffea

Kali-c: -Drowsiness and yawning.-Great drowsiness during day and early in evening.-Falls asleep while eating.-Half-sleep at night.-Tardy sleep.-During sleep, shuddering, tears, talking, and starts with fright.-Gnashing of teeth while asleep.-Agitated sleep, with frequent, anxious, and frightful dreams.-Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sickness, spectres, devils, &c.-Fits of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in stomach and precordial region, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, nightmare and cramps in calves of legs. Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night. At night l. leg and r. arm go to sleep.Waking too early, particularly at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplessness in general.

Melatonin

Valeriana

Disturbed sleep (could fall asleep only towards morning), with tossing and anxious and confused dreams.

ill effects of lack of sleep

cocculus

nux vomica

“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.” — Alain de Botton, British-Swiss Philosopher

1. “Some people can’t sleep because they have insomnia. I can’t sleep because I have internet.” — Anonymous

2. “Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.” — JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom

3. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” — Charlotte Brontë, English Novelist and Poet

YOGA NIDRA FOR SLEEP