Sleep energy

[Tom]

The brain is very active during sleep. The chakras are, too. I have heard of advanced meditators not needing as much sleep as everyone else, and of Zen (Cha'an) practitioners staying awake for weeks at a time.

[fredhedd]

i recently went through seven or eight days where i only slept for an hour or so  a couple of those days.  i meditated for seven or eight hours a night instead of sleeping.  it wasn't done intentionally at first.  i was trying to very calmly induce a lucid dream or at least cross the threshold into sleep w/ out breaking consciousness.  the result was the very long meditation session, which turned out very nicely because i felt refreshed the next morning.  i continued to do it for a while and i havent had any side effects from it.  the day after i actually did get a good nights sleep i slept for eleven hours or so and felt more tired that morning than i did compared to the others.   i'd like to find out more about those advanced meditators not needing as much sleep and seeing if that is unhealthy for you in any way.  
fred

[alpha]

This is  very interesting,And id like to know more too.Ive noticed sometimes when I AP.I get back and im wide awake full of energy.Even if I was only gone for 15,20 minutes.

I could be dead tired beforehand when I come too.I feel as though I just had a good nights sleep.

Maybe your body goes into a deeper sleep when your normal waking concious isnt there?More bang for the buck sort of thing.
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"your divine awareness awakens all the love in your being.Hating and  fearing forsaken,gone are the guilt and the blame.Your soul forgives,your divinity lives"
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[kakkarot]

the body's and mind's downtime (sleep) is good for them because it allows them to regenerate and heal, as well as perform other "maintenance" routines. using your energy you can keep yourself awake for longer periods of time (i have stayed awake for three days straight once, but it burned up a lot of my energy doing so and though my body was still ready to keep going, my mind was just too tired to do anything usefull), partially, by letting your body and mind use the energy to do their maintenance while you are awake.

i don't know much else on this topic though.

~kakkarot

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[themadness]

I think I'm getting a consensus here that sleep is downtime to repair and energize it seems. So, what I'm thinking is that while we are awake there is so much going on, so much physical energy being spent doing the oddest of things that there isn't avalible awareness or energy to repair and energize the body. It seems that from meditation the body is still and the mind is focused on one thing - perhaps giving the subconscious a chance to heal the body.

Does that reasoning seem logical to you guys?

[themadness]

Hi all,

Today my friend brought up a simple, yet provacative question, that I could not answer. He asked me about energy and sleeping. Specifically, what is the point of sleeping? To recharge it seems. But how? and why? I understand how the body burns energy with ATP and such, but I couldn't pin down what sleep does specifically to restore and energize us. Anyone with some biological knowledge?....

And then to the second part of my question. What do our chakras do when we sleep. I'd imagine they sort of ground out and fill up as we float amiss in the astral. Do you think it would be possible to stay up for extraneous amounts of time by "running off your chakras"?

Thanks!