In the context of Human Design, when it comes to having a healthy regenerative sleep that protects your immune system and longevity, only 3 things will make a real difference : honoring your Type sleep strategy (what this post is about), sleeping alone (what that post is about) and eating according to your Determination (more on that over here).

Generators need to go to bed exhausted

“See, if you don't use your energy correctly as a generator, you do not regenerate correctly in sleep.”

| Source - Generators & Manifesting Generators

“If you're a generator and you try to go to sleep at 10 o'clock, because you think it's good for you. You're going to have all kinds of problems in this life physical problems, mental problems, sleep problems.”

| Source - Cartography course

“Manifestors are designed to go to sleep before they're tired. Manifestors are designed to go to sleep before they're tired. So that's the way we ended up culturally, you know, creating that structure, that generalization. Now, there's nothing more devastating for a Generator than to try to go to sleep before they're tired. It's horrible. And of course, it starts when they're very young, I have a three and a half year old that goes to sleep after me, a Generator.

The reality is that Generators can only go to sleep when they're exhausted. And only then can they wake up fresh, only then can they wake up with the proper rhythm and energy flow. If they do not go to sleep, when they're exhausted, they end up with physical problems, physical problems, whether those problems are in the back, whether those problems are in the lay wherever the case may be, they will end up with physical problems.

And it's all about something very simple. But then again, we have all this conditioning, The lover that says “What do you mean, you're staying up? Come to bed, it's time to go to sleep. You know, please do not sleep in the same room as your lover. It's insane. It's not about sex. And it's not about love, but it's not correct.

Everybody requires the integrity, the integrity of their own aura. And if you're a sacral being [G/MG] and your lover goes to sleep at 10:30 at night after the damn news, and you're still burning, burn on. And it doesn't matter how late you burn on, by the time you're ready to quit, you're really ready to sleep. And don't listen to all this nonsense about how much time you need to sleep. I don't know, figures this out. But I know that they really don't know what's going on. The reality is for a Generator, that when a Generator goes to sleep exhausted, if they wake up naturally, other than somebody waking them up, they wake up naturally, whether it's three hours later, or four hours later, or five hours later isn't going to make any difference to them and is not going to be unhealthy. Not, but they have to go to sleep exhausted.”

| Source - Generators (1999)

Only exhaustion allows you to regenerate your sacral energy

“But you see, Generators, Generators have very few opportunities in their lives while they are awake, to feel the regenerative power, I want you to think about, think about the sacral center, let the sacral Center is a motor, that this motor and it's running all day, and it's running all day, and it's running all day. And we know that for the Generator that for them, it's very important that they simply go to sleep, when they're exhausted, they when they run out of juice, you know, and they go to sleep. And in that moment of surrendering to sleep, that's the moment that they get to clean out this system, and they get to re-energize it. And that re-energizing is almost instantaneous, it's not like you're filling up a gas tank, that the moment that they can surrender completely to the motor, the moment that they let go completely and that is in this in this natural way of falling into sleep, this is the moment that the generator is is emptied, if I could put it that way and regenerated there's quite a buzz to it, that is satisfaction.”

| Source - Sexual signatures

Manifesting generators and their dilemma around sleep

“Manifesting Generators have a great dilemma. You know, that dilemma is that there is this extraordinary power. It's there. Their whole system of using their energy is different. You know, a Generator goes to sleep when it's exhausted. A Manifesting Generator has to get into sleep before exhaustion, and then make itself exhausted before it goes to sleep. Read a book, watch TV, whatever it is, ways in which they move the energy to that point of completion so that they can regenerate while they sleep and wake up with renewed power.

See, if you don't use your energy correctly as a generator, you do not regenerate correctly in sleep. It leads to back problems, kidney problems, it leads to problems of alertness during the day energy levels, all kinds of things. Because it goes back to the very basis of what it is to be a generator, you are a pure energy source. If you don't use your energy properly, you're going to suffer. And the suffering comes in many, many ways. And the trap is because you can be busy, you can ignore it as not self. You just get caught up in your busyness and you try to get as far away from whatever it is as you can. But like all things, there's no escape in the end. There isn't. If you are a generator and you're not correct, this life always holds emptiness for you.”

| Source - The Generator signature - From frustration to satisfaction

“By the way, if you're a Manifesting Generator, and it's one of those things that is important to to notice is that if you're a Manifesting Generator, the technique is slightly different. That is yes, you go to sleep exhausted, but you go to bed and exhaust yourself in bed before you fall asleep. Now I could leave that open to interpretation, good night. Might as well just leave it like that, Hey, okay, you just exhaust yourself until you're ready to sleep. However you do that my recommendation for many people is they simply do this day and age, you know, with laptops and things like that you can do work lying in bed, you know, Manifesting Generators, it's very, very good for them to work to the last drop, but they need to take this shift into the horizontal, and that exhausts them. So these are the kinds of people who fall asleep with a book in their hand. You know, they just they crash into the book and the lights are on and the music's playing, they're gone.”

| Source - Rediscovering the nodes

Non sacral beings need to go to sleep before they’re exhausted [Manifestors, Projectors, Reflectors]

“I mean, the wonder of watching the sacral being being a Manifestor, you know, this is part of my thematic you know, watching a sacral being, it's clear that they have a an energy process that has a beginning when they get up in the morning and has an end when they go to sleep, I mean, it's simply built into them, you know, but the moment that you're a non sacral being, you don't have such a thing.

It's not built in, you know, so you end up with non sacral beings who are staying up later than the sacral beings that they're with, you know, they're amplifying the energy. And ultimately, this creates serious problems. And the problems are mostly associated with sleep disturbances and the results of sleep disturbances. In other words, the secondary phenomena of what the sleep disturbances can bring into the daily life. And there's all kinds of illnesses, and all kinds of things that are out there in the world that are related to this kind of phenomena.”

| Source - LYD transcript

“So you have to begin to understand something as a Projector is that you have to be able to clean your aura somehow, you have to know the eight or nine hours a day that you're able to go into, you know, a secure environment, you know, where your aura is protected is something that is so important for you. I mean, just the whole business of Projectors going to sleep and it's something that you know, I caution all non-sacral beings about how important it is, you know, not to exhaust yourself, it is very dangerous, and it's very unhealthy, how important it is for Projectors that, you know, they they get into bed or they get horizontal, you know, before they're exhausted.

I mean, you know, this is something that is very, very important for them, you know, to lie in bed and read or something or just relax before you go off to sleep. But to be able to do that before the exhaustion sets in and it's particularly important for projectors, I mean particularly important for them. I mean exhaustion is one of Their biggest problems and the exhaustion is not just physical. I mean, it is psychic exhaustion, it is auric, exhaustion, it's all kinds of things. It's, it's your sacral center crying out for some some relief, because it's not designed to be running like that all the time.”

“You know, the fact is that as a Projector, in a Generator’s aura, and you got to a Generator partner and the Generator partner, you know, it can't really go to sleep until they're exhausted and they drag you along with them. And because you inflate in the aura, you become even more energized, that when they finally drop off exhausted, you're so tired, that you can't go to sleep. And you can end up with all kinds of problems with that, it's just so unhealthy.”

| Source - The four views

It’s a question of health & well-being

“Take the example of sleep. 70% of the human population generators are designed to go to sleep when they're exhausted. Think about that. They're designed to go to sleep when they're exhausted, that's their mechanism. So a Generator that finally falls asleep at 2 o'clock in the morning. This is a natural phenomena. In other words, they're here to go to sleep when they're exhausted.

Now, if you're a Manifestor, that is not who you are. It has nothing to do with being who you are. And of course Manifestors again when they take in sacral energy amplify the sacral energy. In other words, they can stay up longer, you know, they can be even more exhausted. And this is very, very dangerous for Manifestors physically in terms of their well being in terms of their physical health. What's very important for Manifestors to understand is that they are really intended to get into bed before they're tired. That's very important. That is they're intended to get into bed before they're exhausted.

Now, it may mean that they have to occupy themselves in bed, whether that's reading or, you know, whatever people will do to sort of get themselves into that space. But it's very important for Manifestors in terms of their well-being, not to have their sleep time dictated in that sense and particularly not dictated by fatigue in the body.”

| Source - Manifestor collection/booklet

The dilemma of amplifying sacral energy

“Now think about the other three types. Manifestors, Projectors and Reflectors. They have an open sacral system. They're not supposed to operate until they're exhausted. This is a killer for them. Think about what that's like you got an open sacral and you're with somebody that has a sacral you know, and you go out for dinner. But you know, you got that sacral pumping. Dinner isn't enough, you got dinner, you got dance. So you get after dinner after and on and on, you get back it's 2:30 in the morning and the undefined sacral is dying. But they're amplifying the sacral buzz. Not only that, by the time that the sacral falls down and goes to sleep because they're totally exhausted, the pumped up undefined sacral is still buzzing. All of those people suffer physically, physically, as a result.”

| Source - Cartography course

An energy cleansing ritual

“The other thing is that if you're non sacral, going to bed is a ritual. And it's a ritual that needs to be honored. And the ritual is you go to bed before you're exhausted, always not to sleep, you get into bed. More important, you get into a mostly horizontal position. This is very important. And then you do what you do, you know, read music, watch something, I mean, it doesn't matter what it is, doesn't matter what the activity is. But what does matter is that you're horizontal, okay, and you're preparing yourself for sleep. What that involves is that when you go into that position, you actually change your design, but I won't get into all of that. It's called Dream rave, you change your design. And in the changing of that design, you eliminate the power of the sacral to affect you. And slowly your system gets cleaned out from the influence you've taken in the whole day from the sacral phenomena, you clean all that out, you go to sleep, you wake up clean until you get the next blast of generator world when you wake up in the morning.”

| Source - Rediscovering the nodes

A chance to release the energies within their body

“But again, being able to go to sleep correctly, is so essential, you know, the need for projectors and manifest errs and reflectors, you know, to truly go through this decompression process of slowly approaching sleep, how important it is for them to get into the horizontal state before they drift off, to sleep, that they give themselves a chance to release the energies that had been within them, you know, these are just basic things.”

| Source - Night forces