Sleep knits up the unraveled sleeve of care. Shakespeare

But it does more than that.

Stripping off the rational and succumbing to that animal inner child is a glorious opportunity to undo the pain caused by the daily grind and flex the cramped up parts that have been crushed.

How you go to sleep and how you wake are vital to joining the subconscious to the conscious. Watch a cat wake up and you have the first clue to the importance of waking correctly. Stretch out all the parts that have been inert. Pull and push to get blood flowing in all ways so that you are ready for the next move. Make a plan of what you want for the day before you do anything and be very careful not to wash that plan away in the bathroom.