According to science‚ we need sleep. We need sleep just like how we need food‚ water‚ and air. We need it in order to survive‚ but why? There has been research that has shown that as much as 10% of our energy metabolism goes down while we sleep. Other things that decrease while we sleep are things such as the temperature of our body and the need for caloric intake. As of now‚ no one really knows why we sleep‚ but there are many‚ many theories for it‚ to try to explain what we don’t understand yet
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To Sleep or Not to Sleep My opinion of sleep and how I actually go about it are different from each other. Generally‚ I get everything I planned for that day done before I allow myself to sleep‚ especially if there is homework involved. However‚ I fully believe people should reorganize their life‚ so they are able to get enough sleep each night. I believe this for several reasons: the consequences of sleep deprivation are serious‚ may improve vitality‚ and sleep is the time to allow the brain to
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Sleep-away camp is an awesome experience. It is something everyone should attend at least once. There are many summer sleep-away camps for children to attend all over the world‚ but some of the best are located in the United States. Children are able to share many great memories about positive experiences while attending summer sleep-away camps. Sleep-away camp provides an environment that makes a lasting‚ positive effect in developing friendships‚ choosing hobbies‚ and developing a sense of
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Stage 1 sleep Stage 1 sleep is experienced as falling to sleep and is a transition stage between wake and sleep. It usually lasts between 1 and 5 minutes and occupies approximately 2-5 % of a normal night of sleep. This stage is dramatically increased in some insomnia (restless legs) and disorders that produce frequent arousals such as apnea . Stage 2 sleep Stage 2 sleep follows stage 1 sleep and is the baseline of sleep. This stage is part of the 90 minute cycle and occupies approximately 45-60%
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Many children say that they believe that the things that they experienced and the friendships that they forged at summer sleep-away camps are some of the most important and memorable in their lives. Others argue that summer sleep-away camps are negative experiences that take away from the potential experiences that a child can have by staying home during the summer. Summer sleep-away camps allow children to experience things that they enjoy while building life skills. They also allow children to meet
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There are five different stages of sleep: stages one through four and then REM. The first stage of sleep is simply the transition from consciousness to unconsciousness. The first stage of sleep is often disregarded as not sleeping at all‚ and this is the time when people start day dreaming. Day dreams too are often disregarded in studies of dreams. The brain is constantly trying to improve itself‚ though sometimes the dreams are trying to develop character skills and other time they are just working
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a primary sleep disorder caused by repeated partial or complete upper airway collapse despite an ongoing effort to breathe during sleep. It is estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from OSA‚ affecting 24% of men and 9% of women in the middle-aged population[1] and up to 62% of older adults aged 65 or over.[2] Epidemiological studies report that OSA patients are at a greater risk of having or developing depression[3-6] and cognitive impairment.[7] In a cross-sectional
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Journal of Sleep Research‚ 13(2)‚ 129-136. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00394.x This article dives deeper into the specifics of a nightmare. It claims that low well-being causes dreams to elicit more negative emotions which is the cause of distress that people feel after the dream. Blagrove et al. also addresses the different definitions of a nightmare and how an extremely disturbing dream versus a bad dream is a weaker predictor of well-being than just an unpleasant dream. This helps my research to be
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Sleep Chart for 2/20-2/26 : Tia Weatherington Throughout this week I choose to track my sleep patterns I learned many things but also was left slightly puzzled. When it came to some of the results and varying energy levels. I started on Monday (02/20/2016) I ended up sleeping a total of 5 hours and 30 minutes which isn’t a lot of sleep. I woke up and felt groggy which isn’t uncommon for me. I’ve always had a hard time waking up in the mornings. Throughout the day I felt tired‚ I had a hard time
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have had trouble sleeping‚ whether it was from one of my three children being sick‚ my husband being sick‚ me being sick‚ or my mind just running from here to there which happens quite frequently. The last time I recall that I had not gotten enough sleep would have been when my middle child had to have oral surgery. I don’t really know if it was because she was going under and she hadn’t been before‚ if it was the fact that my little girl was going to have surgery for the first time. I tried for several
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