Sleep

[drraw]

I've heard from a few sources that if you eat a raw food diet for a while, you eventually need less sleep. The premise seems to make sense: you digest food easier, there are less toxins in the system, conversion efficiency from food to energy is very high, etc.

I'm curious to hear from some of you long-timers. Has your sleep patterns changed since you went raw and how long did it take and what happened?

--drraw

[Raw Angel Mom]

I definitely don't need as much sleep but it is hard to measure for me because since giving birth, i had problem to have complete good night sleep due to stress, hormone etc.. When i first went raw it was great then i started to have other health issue and sleep problem. After doing water fast, it has restore, yeah....

Bottom line, raw food has been a great help for me but it didn't immune me from the side effect of stress etc... I had to dig deeper with fast and still need to do so.

All the best!

[MysticTree]

sleep is easier and more restful. I don't know if I need less because I have much healing still to do and I place a lot of faith in the power of sleep when it comes to healing.

[fastfreedom]

I haven't noticed needing less sleep. I need the same amount and sometimes more depending on how active I have been during the day. Though I do have more restful sleep and find the only reason that I awake during the night is if I need to visit the bathroom.

[Living Food]

I barely need any sleep at all these days; nothing really happened after I went raw, even after a few months, but after I became a sproutarian and started doing qi gong and meditating (cultivating life energy) I now only begrudgingly go to sleep at night because I know that it is still very important for health. I could probably easily stay up 48 hours straight and still have loads of energy now, but I sleep for a few hours (from 2-6, depending on how busy I happen to be during that particular night and how much time I can set aside to sleep) every night anyways because not sleeping is very damaging to your health.

I feel like at some point I'm going to be able to get by with just 1-2 hours of sleep a night and suffer no ill effects - I can already get by on that much sleep and still feel great, but it's probably not the best thing for my body.

Sleep just isn't very important anymore, I pity those people who struggle through the day with no energy and can't wait to collapse into bed at nighttime (and probably watch television during all of their free time *shudder*). How do they ever get anything done?

[MysticTree]

I think there is a lot of enjoyment to be had from sleeping :) I enjoy it enormously but I wake up after about 6-8 hours. I imagine I'll need less when I have been raw longer. Much healing needed yet.

[Living Food]

But would sleeping be as enjoying if you never got tired? I don't dislike sleeping, but I'm at the point where I don't really get tired but I still need some sleep for body maintenance, which is unfortunate because sleeping seems unnecessary (based on my energy levels), even though I know it isn't.

[MysticTree]

Yes I think so. I enjoy the dreams I have for the most part. The stress comes when you can't sleep but you want to.

[Living Food]

The stress comes when you can't sleep but you want to.

I used to have that problem too, but now I fall asleep within minutes of lying down to go to sleep (despite not being tired). I feel like that's how our body should work, and you'll get there eventually.

[MysticTree]

I'm already there too :)

[Living Food]

I'm glad :)

[SunshineMN]

I've always felt sleeping is a waste of time. I still hate sleeping. I'm looking forward to a time when I can get by with less than 6 hours and still be healthy. I'd do much better if we had 28 hours a day instead of 24. If I do get tired and take an hour nap I'm good for another 16 hours it seems. :/ Which at this point for me isn't very healthy.

[MysticTree]

Bf, previously on anti-depressants for both depression and inability to sleep has stopped taking them now he is mostly raw. He wakes up better too.

[blissrunner]

When I eat high raw I feel rested on 2 hours less sleep a night and it's easy to get out of bed in the morning. However, if I'm under severe stress this doesn't happen no matter how raw I eat.

[MysticTree]

You need better stress coping mechanisms :) What have you tried so far?