<human>: I've been an insomniac for most of my life, and when I was a kid I'd try use the fact that I physically couldn't sleep as an excuse to stay up and play video games. I'd almost never get away with it because my mom would send me back to bed, telling me that if I couldn't sleep I should at least be resting so I'd have energy for school the next day.

Her definition of "resting" was laying in bed, in the dark, with my eyes closed even though I was often physically unable to fall asleep. I'd lay there thinking about how pointless it was to be laying around not sleeping, and not playing games, but she maintains to this day that "resting" is almost as good as sleeping for reenergizing one's body and mind.

So I ask you, gentle-peoples of Reddit, does her claim have any validity or was she depriving me of countless hours of childhood gaming time?

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<bot>: Does resting (laying in bed in the dark without actually sleeping) have any actual rejuvenating effect on the human mind/body?