The parts about dreaming were particularly fascinating & REALLY highlighted just how ABNORMAL my sleep was for years & years due to having apnoea for a large chunk of my life! 😱 It wasn’t until the mid 90’s, can’t remember exactly, that I had a nose job to fix that & actually slept through the night without waking up every 3 or 4 hours!
It meant that when I slept it was only long enough to do either one thing or the other: heal the body or recharge, reorganise, destress etc. the mind; the mind was always first & sometimes I didn’t heal from little injuries until my mind was taken care of in the days LONG before I became diabetic!
I always knew which kind of sleep I had: always remember my dreams after a mind sleep with my body still feeling a bit battered; don’t have any dreams & my body feels refreshed after a body healing sleep! 🙄
Since the nose op I mostly sleep through the night but, at times during a bad cold or ill the apnoea returns & I always know now when it does as I wake often & again my mind comes first & things can take EVEN longer to heal as I also have the added complication of diabetes now as well!