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Having trouble getting a good night\u2019s sleep? Download Abide<\/a> for Christian sleep meditations that use calming techniques and Scripture verses framed in calming stories to lull you into a peaceful slumber.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the health news a lot these days:\u00a0 Sleep is a major problem for Americans. We don\u2019t get enough. We don\u2019t take enough naps. We don\u2019t have enough time to wind-down before going to bed.<\/p>\n

Much of what happens during sleep remains a mystery. Dreams, for example. Some scientists and psychologists dismiss them as meaningless. Others, in the tradition of Sigmund Freud (like Dr. Judith Orloff of our recent Dream Chat)<\/a>, believe they shed great meaning on our waking lives.<\/p>\n

I struggle a lot with sleep. Some nights, I do everything \u201cright\u201d\u2013wind-down, meditate, dim the lights, read, etc.\u2013but still, it escapes me.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m trying to change how I think about insomnia. What if, instead of being stressed about not sleeping, I could see those fitful, waking hours as restorative\u00a0and meaningful as eight hours of uninterrupted bliss? Could occasional insomnia be good for the soul?<\/p>\n

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In the Huffington Post<\/em>, sleep physician David Cunnington of the Melbourne Sleep Disorders Center says that before the advent of artificial light, such late night awakenings were viewed as normal and healthy:<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically if you read about how human sleep has been described over thousands of years, it has been described as three to four hours of deeper sleep after the sun goes down followed by a period of being awake. That period of being awake in fact could last a couple of hours and was then followed by dozing through the remainder of the night until the sun came up.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Robert Moss, author of The Secret History of Dreaming<\/em>, this ancient way of sleeping helped with creativity and imagination\u2013and what I would call spiritual life:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interval between first sleep and second sleep is characterized by elevated levels of prolactin, a pituitary hormone best known for helping hens to brood contentedly above their eggs for long periods… the night watch can produce benign states of altered consciousness not unlike meditation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The French called this period dorveille<\/em>, \u201cwidely regarded as an excellent time to birth new ideas,\u201d Moss continues.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to radically reinvent my sleep schedule\u2013I\u2019d end up falling asleep at my desk. But I do want to change how I think about those moments of interrupted slumber.<\/p>\n

Our readers send us stories all the time about receiving divine inspiration or messages in the middle of the night (Ralph Ackley<\/a>\u00a0and Patricia Joseph-Lyle<\/a>\u00a0come to mind).<\/p>\n

Maybe insomnia is due to more than just anxiety. Maybe something or someone is trying to break through and reach us.<\/p>\n

What kind of message or inspiration have you felt in the middle of the night?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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