Personal Narrative: The Five Stages Of Sleep

Having my roommate back back late at night during different hours of the day can interrupt my sleep cycle and cause me to become sleep deprived. Having my roommate come late at night when I am sleeping he is disrupting all 5 stages of my sleep cycle. Well to begin with when I first start closing my eyes, those few moments I would fall in stage 1 sleep. Stage one sleep is the light state of sleep , which can lasts from 5 to 10 minutes, during this our brain activity powers down by 50 percent ot more. As time goes on I will fall into a deeper sleep and will become more relaxed and that is when I will experience hypnagogic imagery, these are images that are scrambled, bizarre and dream like images that flit in and out someone's consciousness. So after the first stage I will then fall onto stage two, in this
During this stage I will spend 65 percent of my total sleep here.

After stage 1 and two then follows stage 3, during stage delta waves appear 20 to 50 percent of the time, and in stage 4, they appear more than half of the time. This a crucial stage of sleep because If I want to be fully rested for the morning, I need to experience these deeper stages of sleep throughout the night, but having my roommate coming home late it can easily ruin that for me and disrupt my sleep. In the final stage of sleep, stage 5 or also known as REM sleep. Stage 5 is different from the other four stages because in this stage we go through rapid eye movement while in the other four stages it is none rapid eye movement. During this stage I will get an increased heart rate and blood pressure, as well as rapid irregular breathing, a state that occupies about 20 to 25 percent of our night's sleep. After 10 to 20 minutes of REM sleep, the