Consciousness and Sleep: Quality Assurance of Rest

Abstract

Consciousness never sleeps. During sleep consciousness is engaged in quality assurance of rest for the system psyche, nervous system, and other systems of the body through a mammoth of silent activities. Neural correlates of sleep are important but not sufficient to understand sleep. The article discusses several models of the psyche participating in the mechanism of sleep. The models also offer clues how psychic mechanisms could interact with neural mechanisms. Two psycho-maneuvering techniques have been described that help many to have quality sleep.