Did You Know About the World Sleep Day?
Is there anyone not in love with sleeping? I think we all love to sleep as much as we can. Every day, you need a good amount of sleep to stay healthy and sound. If you cannot sleep properly, it will create a negative impact on your physical health as well as mental health. A goodnight's sleep keeps your mind fresh and makes you more focused on your daily life - all the more reasons to celebrate World Sleep Day.
Similarly, oversleeps is also a problem for the human bodies. Oversleep also causes numerous physical diseases and makes people less productive and hamper daily life.
Our today’s topic is not the pros and cons of having good sleep though, but something more interesting than that. Suppose you are given a day just to celebrate it as a sleepy day how will you react? Yes, you heard it right! There is a day in the calendar that is declared as the World Sleep Day.
The World Sleep Day and its history
World Sleep Day is usually a day that is annually organized by the sleep committee of the World Sleep Society. From the year 2008, the day has been celebrated regularly with different slogans. The day is perceived on Friday before March Equinox every year. The main purpose of this day is to create awareness in society about the benefits of healthy sleep, the importance of sleep, sleep disorders and its prevention.
Every year the World Sleep Society organizes different kinds of discussion, seminars, meetings, exhibitions across the world to celebrate the day. For the year 2021, World Sleep Day fell on 19th March. The slogan for the year was ‘Regular sleep, healthy future’.
This initiative is often criticized as it looks very silly. According to several people sleep is something connected to mental peace. It’s not a commodity to celebrate this way.