Each morning, will you look back at the bed and be grateful for the last (hopefully an opportunity for 8) hours? It's not just a jump-start. Everything you will do during that day will be benefited by the sleep you just finished. Everything you learn during the day will wait to be suggested to your brain for memory that night, and without sleep you may have to re-learn it.
Preeminent neuroscientist Matthew Walker explains what he calls "an explosion of discoveries over the past 20 years", all about sleep, this way :
Based on a rich, new scientific understanding of sleep, we no longer have to ask what sleep is good for. Instead, we are now forced to wonder whether there are any biological functions that do not benefit by a good night's sleep. So far, the results of thousands of studies insist that, no, there aren't.
Emerging from this research renaissance is an unequivocal message : sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day - Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.
Along with all our other Healthy Habits, let's get some sleep!