Till Roennberg, the author of the article Five Myths about Sleep, describes five statements people usually believe.
1. Person needs eight hours of sleep per night.
According to Napoleon’s opinion, which author brings as an example, men need six hour of sleep per a night, women need seven hour of sleep, others who sleep more just loosing time. This position might be objective for genius like Napoleon, but it would not work with me, regular person. It is very hard to keep short sleep schedule for me and I can do it just temporary.
2. Early to bed early to rise makes a men healthy, wealthy and wise.
Suck kind of schedule was actual 18-19 Centuries when people did not use electricity. They went to bed after dusk and woke up with the sun rise.
If asked how is a person’s lifetime spent, numerous people would think of the times devoted to family. They may reflect of the years of gaining an education, or attempting to find a soulmate to spend the rest of their life with. However, we rarely consider the time we spend preparing our body to continue living our lives. Oddly enough, the time we allow our body to recuperate, through sleeping, is where we spend more than a third of our lifetime; this is equivalent to approximately twenty five years cycling through the stages of sleep, yet at some point in time we all have been deprived of some essential hours of shut eye (Altevogt and Harvey). Therefore, people, in today’s society, often complain of being constantly tired, yet many do not understand the stages of sleep and common problems that accompany it.
Neatorama tells a story about an experiment that shows the effects of sleep deprivation. Traveling back to 1965 where a young 16 year old student still holds the record for the longest period of being awake. This student conducted an experiment that lasted 11 days or 264 hours. Randy Gardner spent every minute of these 11 days awake without any type of stimulate. So this means no caffeine to help keep him awake.
Sickness disorders, stress, and obesity can be linked to sleep as well. (Kalish 1-2) If all these issues are present, why don’t we change the starting time? Change is costly and challenging. Cost of buses, scheduling, and activities are an inconvenience.
With exceptional haste we begin to recite our knowledge of the human mind. As is stated in The Twenty-Four Hour Mind by Rosalind D. Cartwright, sleep allows our brain to consolidate our experiences and memories of the day (Cartwright 30) while we lay in a semi-vegetative state (Cartwright iix). The consequences of lack of sleep are evident in studies performed on individuals who suffer from insomnia. In “Sleep in the Workplace: What the Psychologist-Manager Should Know About Sleep”, the article highlights the cognitive effects that lack of sleep can have on an individual including impaired working memory, learning capability, and decision-making (Gaulltney & Collins-McNeil 135). Our rational mind dismisses Murakami’s obvious fictional short story and dismounts every claim that a human could survive without sleep.
Sleepless in American is a National Geographic documentary on the lack of sleep Americans are receiving each night. The film starts with the statistic that “40% of American adults are sleep deprived” and followed with different effects of sleep deprivation such as: weight gain, delayed reaction time, depression, anxiety, speeds the growth of cancer, and has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Although, there is no scientific evidence to support the need for sleep, it is an important process that allows our bodies to function properly. Several sleep studies have been performed to understand the effects sleep deprivation has on a person. The participants of the sleep trial only received four hours of sleep per night.
Response to “The Importance of Sleep” As the media develops and objects referred to as distractors become more relevant in today's world, it has become hard for us to focus on what should truly be valued in our priorities. A big mistake a lot of us offer up is our sleep, however in “The Importance of Sleep '' composed by Luke Davis, he discusses the significance of putting your personal distractors away early and getting the recommended amounts of sleep as you will learn, comes with many benefits. In this multi genre article, he discusses the stages of sleep, the benefits that come out of going to bed earlier, and his personal experience with the benefits he listed. Starting this multi genre piece, Davis begins with a letter to his readers
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together,” (Thomas Dekker), but with most middle and high schools starting before 8:00 am, students aren’t getting the recommended hours of sleep they need to do well in school. School start times should be later for middle and high schoolers for the protection of students’ academic scores, the reduced risk of traffic accidents, and for the protection of student health, although people may argue that parent work schedules may have to change and that the bus schedule change may or will be costly. Middle and high schools should start later for the positive impacts they would have on students and their families. First of all, the start times of middle and high schools should be later for the protection of students’ academic scores. Students who don’t get enough sleep get lower academic and standardized test scores.
There is no listed author. “Teens are at an important stage of their growth and development. Because of this, they need more sleep than adults. The average teen needs about nine hours of sleep each night to feel alert and well rested.” (UCLA) Rapidly changing bodies, and busy schedules, causes sleep be a challenge for teens.
Sleep Journal and Reflection Paper Amber Ivy American Public University System Before, during, and after the logging of my sleep journal, I learned an abundance of information about myself in accordance to the dreams I had been having. The last ten days I logged what I was eating, when I went to bed, how many times I woke up during the night, and when I woke up for the day. As soon as I woke up for the day, I wrote as much as I could remember about the dream/ s I had.
Introduction Good morning everyone. I’m Nur Atiqah binti maznan and today I will deliver a speech title ‘People should care more about sleep’ Most of us in this class will say that we not get enough sleep because of all assignments, lab reports and so on like just now. So, we called this situation as sleep deprivation which means a condition where people not get enough sleep. We are in the same shoes, so no worries. A research from Brown University stated that, from a survey they conducted to a group of college student, 11% student have a good sleep but the rest which is 73% from the same study were found to have a sleep problem.
And what are the 3 main theories of sleep? There are three theories why sleep makes us feel better, such as: inactivity theory, energy conservation theory, and restorative theory. Latency Theory clarifies that dormancy during the evening or day is an adjustment for survival during a period of day by day weakness through low perceivability or harsh temperature. For instance, creatures may rest through timeframes amid which they are regularly gone after. Through characteristic determination, those creatures that
Why would you want to wake up every day at Five O Clock each day. If you don’t get in you house tell Two O Clock and you still have to wake up at Five O Clock. You would only get Three hours of sleep if you went to bed right away. But I only get 2 hours when I go and deliver cattle in Green bay Wisconsin. Sorry I got off topic my bad.
“Enough sleep is just as important for good health as nutrition and exercise.” -fitnessquotesimg Sleep is important to our daily routine because it keeps our health ensured and gives us rest. People that have less sleep can be at risk. Getting enough rest is also important, if people don’t get sleep they will not have rest which will cause people to be tired and drowsy. Sleeping is very important in life because it helps fuel our body.
Then, six to thirteen-year-olds, school-age children, only need nine to eleven hours of sleep to function. Teens, 14-17 years old, only
THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEPING WELL Hello everybody, I’m going to speak about the most time-consuming activity in our lives: sleeping. As a matter of fact, we usually don’t pay much attention to the quality of our sleep, in spite of influencing a big deal our performance during the day, our health and well-being, in other words, our quality of life. That’s the reason why I would like to introduce some interesting material to understand better this important though disregarded necessity.