Getting quality sleep is vital for maintaining good health and overall well-being. Like a balanced diet and exercise, sleep may aid prevent an array of health problems, including depression and heart disease. People’s performance at work, school, and other settings is affected by sleep disruption. This includes focus, emotional reactivity, decision-making, risk-taking behavior, and judgment.

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife