It’s also hard for me to wake up in the morning without an alarm clock, I struggle to get out of bed, and I hit my snooze button a lot of times. During the day I am very irritable, sleepy, stressed, I have trouble with focusing on things and remembering, I also have to take a nap just to get through the day and I have dark circles under my eyes. I agree with my results, I am very deprived of sleep and it is hard for me to sleep because my mind is always racing with thoughts. I can stay up for 24+ hours and then if I do fall asleep or take a nap I sleep no longer than 2-4 hours and I am right back up for hours. Steps I want to take to get more sleep would be to try and go to sleep at an earlier time.
To begin with, sleep is extremely influential to a person’s daily routine and health. What most people do not understand is that sleep deprivation is the source of multiple health problems. A study performed by Dr. Judy Owens reveals, teens demand more sleep than adults and children, but few are capturing the amount they need. It is essential for adolescents to receive nine and a quarter hours of sleep a night to be able to function to the best of their abilities; however, teens biological clocks make it problematic for them to fall asleep at an ideal time and obtain the preferred amount of sleep while waking up in time for school. The lack of sleep that takes place during the week contributes to excessive sleep during the weekend which is the source of many health complications (New).
Between 16 and 35 years and between 35 and 50 years During infancy babies sleep more than everyone else and have different sleep patterns. They tend to sleep for around 16 hours a day but it is not continuous. They wake every hour due to a shorter sleep wake cycle than adults and their sleep stages consist of quiet sleep and active sleep: these are immature versions of SWS and REM sleep. By the time they have reached 6 months, a sleep-wake cycle is established with 1 or 2 naps during the day and as a result periods of sleep then lengthen. By the age of 5 children have an EEG pattern which is similar and looks like those of an adult but they are still sleeping more than adults with an approximate time of 12 hours in sleep and they also have more increase with approximately 30% of the total sleep time being in REM.
Deresiewicz echoed this thought when he said, "Not long ago, it was easy to feel lonely. Now, it is impossible to be alone." But with face-to-face contact at an all time low, one must wonder what this really means for us. It's no secret that the internet can be used to waste time, but what if it was affecting our offline time too? Often I've spent countless hours on a computer or watching a television; yet I still go to bed with a feeling that I have gotten nothing done.
Every day you are constantly fatigued; even though you go to bed around 10 pm. While lying in bed, your mind starts racing with things that happened during the day or an essay you need to finish by midnight the next day. You find yourself staring at the clock; 12:00am flashes and you think to yourself, “I’m never going to fall asleep.” Night after night this is your routine; and you do not fall asleep until 2 hours before you need to get up for work. Unfortunately; this is me every night. It has progressed since I started school this fall.
Sleep disturbances in Older Adults Over a typical lifespan, the amount of time we spend each day sleeping declines. Adults through middle age need at least eight hours, and although the elderly may still require up to eight hours, they may struggle to obtain those hours in one block. Because older adults are less able to maintain sleep, the elderly suffer disproportionately from chronic sleep deprivation. (Healthy sleep.med). Sleep normally occurs in several stages: dreamless periods of light and deep sleep and some periods of active dreaming (REM).
They suffered through sleepless nights and 36 hour shifts. Several residents were even found “asleep in the operating room, sometimes while holding scalpels or other instruments” (Kellogg, 3). Some questioned it was safe for the resident to deal with patients when they were so sleep deprived. After much debate, new regulations were mandated that the residents could only work 80 hours per week. Now, instead of residents staying late there would be a night team which would take over duties around 6/7pm.
Self-Ethno archeology When comparing present day material use towards the past before they had the resources and technology that is convenient to us all the time, which that shows us how we take most of our everyday materials for granted when looking on the way its obtained in the past. Everyday there are a wide range of materials used on a daily basis from when I wake up to when I got to bed. Thinking about my high amounts of material uses daily, after living this way all my life it would be very hard to not have most of the materials I require in order for my life to take place. From the start of my day I am already using many supplies for me to wake up. At the beginning of my day I am using wooden supports for my bed, a mattress, two pillows, and my phone and phone charger in order for me to wake up in the morning.
The first reason why staying up all night, cramming, is a mistake is because insufficient sleep decreases the ability to remember any new information. Studies show that the brain needs several hours of sleep to solidify the information it’s learned during the day. “Sleep serves not only a restorative function for adolescents’ bodies and brains, but it is also a key time when they process what they’ve learned during the day” (National Sleep Foundation 484). Depriving the brain of sufficient sleep can cause one to be fatigued, disoriented, and even delusional. One needs the recommended amount of sleep in order to prepare and perform well on an exam, which is the primary achievement for students.
Further research by Shapiro et al studies runners sleeping patterns and found that they slept one hour more after a marathon race. This supports this theory because the more damage we do to our body the more restoration or repair is needed at night, which according to Oswald occurs in NREM sleep. On the other hand Horne challenges this view. He believed that not all sleep was necessary. He believes that REM sleep repairs and restores the body and brain, however NREM sleep (stages 1-4) is ‘optional’ sleep.