If you can’t sleep so you lay still for an extended period of time with your eyes closed, does that do anything to restore energy? Or does the fact you’re still awake make it a useless gesture?
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Consider it like this. You’ve got a machine that is constantly in use on some level except for a period of downtime every day where maintenance is done. Some of this maintenance can feasibly happen any time, but ideally the best time to do it is during downtime. The rest of it can only be done during downtime.
Let’s say a few days happen where there’s a crunch and there is little to no downtime possible. Would it be a useless gesture to attempt to do the maintenance that was possible during this time?
The body is much the same way. Eventually it will need downtime in the form of sleep, but any rest you can give it will help keep it, and you, going.
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