Middleton Period 1 Sleep plays an important role in our lives. From tiny insects to humongus grizzly bears‚ every living thing needs sleep. We need it to carry out our daily activities and to live a long and healthy life. Many people fail to realize that sleep is as equally important as breathing‚ and because of this their bodys are not functioning to their full potentials. Not getting the amount of sleep your body needs can lead to mental and physical health problems. Lack of sleep impairs the mind’s
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Title: Polyphasic Sleep Speech Purpose: To inform Thesis: Polyphasic sleep can benefit you in your everyday life‚ but can also come with a price. 1) Polyphasic sleep can benefit your individual daily goals to an extent. a) By sleeping only an average of 2-3 hours a day using the Uberman sleep cycle‚ you can increase your productivity on a day-to-day basis. i) In theory‚ you can save 5-6 hours a day by taking six 20-30 minute naps every four hours and still feel as alert and rested as you would
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Uberman’s Sleep Polyphasic sleep is a sleep pattern/routine that involves breaking apart sleeping time into two or more separate phases throughout a 24 hour period. Most individuals have a monophasic sleep pattern with the usual 8 hours/day. Uberman’s sleep is a radical version of polyphasic sleep that involves an individual sleeping 20 minutes every four hours or 30 minutes every six hours. By doing this‚ a person spends only 2 hours asleep and can achieve full alertness for 22 hours a day. This
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Sleep Deprivation of college students It is 11:30 in the morning and the lecture started half an hour ago. The classroom is still half empty. Although half of the class is here‚ they don’t look like awake. Most of them look like zombies. The above scenario is a common condition taken place in colleges. A research done by Tsui‚YY‚ et al (2009) shows that two thirds of the participating students reported sleep deprivation. The poor sleep quality results in their zombie looks and poor attendants
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Theory Paper Sleep and Dream Professor Spurgeon Trinh Dang 3/18/2014 Sleep and Dream When we sleep‚ we go through five sleep stages. The first stage is a very light sleep from which it is easy to wake up. The second stage moves into a slightly deeper sleep‚ and stages three and four represent our deepest sleep. Our brain activity throughout these stages is gradually slowing down so that by deep sleep. About 90 minutes after we go to sleep and after the fourth sleep stage‚ we begin
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10th‚ 2017 Rough Draft: Sleep Paralysis Condition Have you ever had a nightmare? maybe you think that Chucky‚ Freddy Krueger or It the Clown were coming to get you‚ then you begin to get that feeling that someone is in your room while your tucked in bed but you know that all of it is fake and could never truly happen Right?. Well‚ you would be wrong‚ imagine it truly come to life and you can see‚ feel and even hear the nightmare getting closer to you. That would be Sleep Paralysis a condition where
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Dr. Valentine Homeostasis and Sleep According to Krogh (2009)‚ homeostasis is the maintenence of a relatively normal internal environment. This means that the body has many systems in place to regulate what happens in our bodies to keep it functioning properly. There are very few functions that we have control over in the homeostatic processes ’ of our bodies. Sleep is one of them. Sleep is very important to the regulation of the body ’s functions. Sleep is regulated by circadian rhythms
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organizations be concerned about their employees being sleep-deprived? What factors influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization? Sleep plays a crucial role in our physical strength and health. It is important for life‚ but we frequently intentionally or unintentionally deprive ourselves to get enough of it. In fact‚ we receive medical care for a sickness or injury but fail to achieve the cure for a sleep disorder. An organization or company
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Effects of Sleep Deprivation on College Students Brant McMillan Specific purpose: I want my audience to know the harms of sleep deprivation so it may make them more conscious about their sleeping habits. Thesis: Sleep deprivation has many negative effects that cause harm to college students and everyone should know how to fight sleep deprivation Introduction How many of you consider your alarm clock one of your worst enemies? Imagine your alarm clock just rang‚ and it is time for school. How
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NAME: TOPIC: SLEEP DISORDER WITH THE ADULTS INSTITUTION: SLEEP DISORDER WITH THE ADULTS It can be described as a medical condition that adults that face. Sleep disorder can be defined as the disturbance of normal sleeping habits among adults. The disorder may involve difficulties that are associated with sleep. Most of the adults that are affected by sleep disorders may be because they have adopted a certain life style that is not the one they previously had. Difficulties that may be involved
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