Summary: Benefits of Sleep The article‚ “Benefits of Sleep”1 falls under the scientific category of psychology. The author Jules Sowder explains how sleep is required in everything we do in life. With a good night’s sleep comes clearer thoughts‚ stable emotions‚ and better overall health. For example‚ benefits can include body repair‚ a healthier heart‚ reduced stress‚ improved memory‚ controlled body weight‚ lowered chance of diabetes‚ and fewer occurrences of mood disorders. Sleep is probably the
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Sleep Deprivation among teenagers in our country is a very serious issue that is increasing at an alarming rate. Many people believe that as we grow older‚ we require less sleep‚ so a teenager would not need as much sleep as a child‚ but this is very untrue. In fact‚ at the beginning of puberty your body clock‚ or circadian rhythm‚ changes. When this happens‚ a teenager will want to go to bed around 10 or 11‚ whereas they used to go to bed around 8. Most teens do not fully understand how important
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Top 3 Reasons to Make 2016 the Year to Treat Your Sleep Apnea If the thought of getting a good night of sleep seems like either a distant memory or an unachievable fantasy – or both! – you may suffer from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a serious medical condition‚ and the consequences of allowing this health issue to go untreated could be harmful and even fatal. You and those who sleep near you do not need to spend another night sleeping fitfully. If you’ve been diagnosed with the condition or strongly
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We Need Sleep Sleep is a very important aspect of our lives and people rely on it to re-energize them so they can continue onto the next day. Although sleep is thought to conserve energy it actually drains your metabolism by 5-10%. However‚ sleep is very beneficial to humans. Sleeping progresses the bodies’ growth and rejuvenates the immune‚ skeletal‚ nervous and muscular systems. Sleep also improves short-term memory‚ mood‚ efficiency‚ concentration‚ and it is actually believed that sleep also helps
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An Analysis of Dreams by Timothy Findley "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (Shakespeare The Tempest) perhaps most accurately sums up the human fascination with their own dreams. Fleeting‚ transitory‚ and possessing their own reason‚ these strange passes of fancy strike attention and draw importance to themselves. In Timothy Findley ’s short story "Dreams"‚ the human obsession with‚ and dependence upon‚ dreams is taken up in detail. The story can be seen as symbolic in its entirety‚ with each
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of distorted thoughts. Sleep disorder is one type of abnormal behavior that happened around us and people around us in “dot-com” era. Sleep disorders are problems with sleeping‚ including trouble falling or staying asleep‚ falling asleep at the wrong times‚ too much sleep‚ or abnormal behaviors during sleep. There are two main categories of sleep disorders‚ which are dyssomnias and parasomnias. Dyssomnias are problems connected with the amount‚ timing‚ and quality of sleep. Meanwhile‚ parasomnias
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Dream Catchers: How Do They Work? Rheanna Jackson 2-24-10 Period 5 Dream catchers have been on this Earth for many years so far and will be on this Earth for many years to come. It is a tradition to hang a dream catcher over top of your bed and let it catch your dreams as you sleep. To get to the sleeper the dream must pass through the catcher. When you have a good dream it passes through the hole in the center of the catcher and glides down the feathers. On the other hand‚ when
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Understanding Sleep Debt In Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind‚ William Dement discusses how to recognize the signs of dangerous sleepiness and urges the importance of education on sleep debt. Generally people need to sleep one hour for every two hours awake‚ and we need eight hours. The brain keeps an exact account of how much sleep it is owed. The brain tries to hit this mark‚ and the further you get from this number of hours the harder the brain tries to force you to go to sleep. We use the
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“Sleep Deprivation” Don’t we hate when we want to sleep and we can’t? Well if you suffer of this just like me you have sleep deprivation‚ but what sleep deprivation means? To understand this I will cite two sources‚ according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine sleep deprivations means “Sleep deprivation occurs when an individual fails to get enough sleep”‚ and according to Paula Alhola and Päivi Polo-Kantola sleep deprivation is “the condition of not having enough sleep”. Both definitions
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envionrment Surveyrs have consisntely linked sleep and exercise- One study by Urponen who assessed a random smaple of adults in Finlan‚ used open ended questions such as ‘Please state 3 habits that promote sleep’. What was found was : 1. Exercise was grasped as most important habit 33%men 30% female 2. Reading/Listening to music 14%men and 23%women 3. Sauna/Shower 9%men and 9% women 400 hospital and 400 outpatients‚ any habit that helps you sleep ? 1. >2 times per week‚ 83% listed
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