Dr. John Bigelow, a famous research authority on sleep
(Dr. John Bigelow, The Mystery of Sleep (New York and
London: Harper Brothers, 1903)), demonstrated that at night while asleep
of the eyes, ears, nose, and taste buds are active during sleep,
anys that the main reason we sleep is because “the nobler part
and also that the nerves of your brain are quite active. He
of the soul is united by abstraction to our higher nature and
becomes a participant in the wisdom and foreknowledge of
the gods.”
Dr. Bigelow states also, “The results of my studies have
only strengthened my convictions that the supposed
exemption from customary toils and activities was not the
final purpose of sleep, but have also made clearer to my mind
the conviction that no part of a man’s life deserves to be
considered more indispensable to its symmetrical and perfect
spiritual development than the while he is separated from the
phenomenal world in sleep.”