Above The Norm

Yaakov learns for 14 years before traveling out to חרן.  Then he travels sees in the place of the mikdash, how does it make sense that after the preparation of 14 years of learning without sleep he sleeps in the place of the mikdash?  The 14 years of learning represent suppressing the 7 bad traits and refining the 7 good traits (Emrei Yosef.)  That was the most completion Yaakov could reach.  When a person sleeps the normal levels of the brain's capabilities are limited.  When sleeping usually one lays down in a manner where the head is on the same level as one's legs.  There is no advantage of the brain being used.  It is in sleep that one can access a level above the normal capacities that a person can reach.  That is why it was important for Yaakov to sleep in such a holy place, in order to access  a level that cannot be obtained even through complete self perfection.  The Shem M'Shmuel (5681) says that  Yaakov took a neder, נ' דר to tap into the 'שער נ above the normal order of the world to remove any issue of שמא יגרום החטא.  In order to be ready for חרן אף של מקום one needs to be tapped into a level above the natural order.