Hello everyone, It’s been a while I’ve dropped a post on hive and that is because I’ve trying to navigate through different communities in order to see which one best describe my interest. And I’m so delighted I found this community. It’s like a God sent to me because as a science student (A Mathematician to be precise) I love to explore and I believe this is a good ground for me to achieve that by interacting with like minds in the community.
Without boring you guys with my stories I would like to proceed by presenting my take on this week’s prompt topic which is **“Your Science of rest and sleep”.**
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So, before I proceed to share in details my pattern of rest and sleep, I would like to explain what sleep or rest is and also highlight some key importance of rest to help us understand this topic.
At the cause of my research on this topic I was able to understand that ***Sleep is a natural state of unconsciousness where the body and mind gets to rest so as to reactivate and function better.*** While ***Rest is a state of relaxation where the body and mind become less active in other to function better.***
With the above brief definition, you will agree with me that sleep or rest is a natural phenomenon that can helps individual functions better both physically and mentally.

Now, what is my pattern of Sleep or Rest?

I know you’ve been waiting for this right, and I’m going to tell you in details for free. Yeah for free.
Well, while growing up as a child I must said I practice both quantity and quality sleep because my mum understands the importance of quality sleep. She doesn’t allow me stay outside my room till 10:00pm. Once it’s getting to 10:00pm I already know where I belong, I have to quickly go inside my room because I know what the outcome would be once I’m caught outside by that time. I became used to it as I grew up and that has been my practice not until when I got a night job that made me stay awake all night. The night job was so demanding that I had to always stay actively awake with my eyes wide open looking at my system for ours. Sometimes I finished as early as 3:00am while sometimes I even go beyond that time, depending on the work load for the day. 
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At first, I intend turning down that offer because I thought I could not cope looking at the fact that I love having quantity and quality sleep, but because of the challenges on ground I had to take it. Though it wasn’t easy for me at first but with time I got used to it, though my sleeping pattern changed. I only sleep during the day time and I must confess that sleep at day time is never a quality sleep, and most times it’s short because that is when most people are active so the environment won’t be quiet enough to have the quantity of sleep or rest that one deserves. I strugled and manage to handle that role for two solid years. That was when I got to understand that the body and mind can adapt to any pattern of sleep you subject it to. It's just matter of time and the body system would get use to it. After the two years I got a 9-5 job which now made me returned to my normal pattern of sleep

In conclusion, I must say that over the years I practice quality and quantity sleep pattern and that have inpacted positively in my mental and physical health unlike when I used to work all night and having limited rest. Therefare I encouraged everyone to adapt to this pattern in order to stay healthy both mentally and physically.

**Thank you for Reading through...!**

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