Personal Narrative: How To Fall Asleep Fast

Lay on your back, place your arms at your sides, and close your eyes. Start to take slow deep breaths, the ones that are drawn from your diaphragm. Now focus on relaxing – let your muscles loosen up, from your toes, legs, trunk, shoulders, arms, to your fingers. On your mind, slowly begin a countdown from 10 to 1, imagining yourself getting lower and lower from an elevated point at each count. Or you can imagine a pebble slowly sinking in deep water, viewed from above. When you reach “one”, just let your mind drift, and at this point you should be completely relaxed, if not asleep or sleepy.What Else You Can

09-09-2012 Day 1: I went to sleep at 1:00 am and woke up at 6:11 am. The dream was that my grandmother passed away and that I had nobody to confide in. It got to a point where I just went

The impact of sleep deprivation can impact nearly every aspect of your life. In my life, it has affected me in so many ways. Throughout the day, I feel tired, and when I’m supposed to have a good night’s rest, I am wide awake. The days I don’t have the energy to do anything, are about most days, but even though the effects of insomnia are great they won’t end my life. Although insomnia is common, most people can find a treatment that works for them. There are techniques for stress reduction, relaxation, sleep schedule management and even sleep pills that can control insomnia. Relaxing and scheduling a sleep pattern helps me get a better night’s rest, yet sometimes it’s still tough. Besides, it is better than stressing about it or having anxiety or depression as a result of

Thesis/Central Idea: Sleep deprivation can lead to serious health problems, forgetting important information, and will have a negative impact on the outlook of life.

This paper examines five different sources of information that addresses information pertaining to wakeful resting or sleeping and the effects it has on memory garnered by experiments performed on humans and animals. Wakeful resting is defined as an individual that has not fallen asleep but has engaged in a period of rest that cuts them off from the distractions of the outside world. Sleep is the bodies natural cycle of rest that suspends the consciousness and allows both the body and the mind to take a break from any stressful activities and recover. By either taking a short wakeful rest or going to sleep after learning new material, memory consolidation in both humans and animals will be improved, and it is not limited to humans that

“The bad sleep well.” This quote is actually the name of a 1960’s Japanese film directed by the world renowned director Akira Kurosawa. There isn’t much to say about the movie, but it has a key role in the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama play Doubt: A Parable. Out of all of the places that the author John Patrick Shanley puts this quote is right at the first page before chapter one and after the preface with two other quotes. The location of the quote and what the quotes say give the reader questions and what happened and maybe foreshadowing what will come in the book.

I did not sleep well as a child. When I closed my eyes, I was not inundated with calming thoughts, nor fantastical images, but rather assaulted by existential anxieties which coaxed me into undesired ruminations about my being. I believed falling asleep was tantamount to relinquishing control over my ephemeral existence, as there was no guarantee of awakening. I found myself clinging to the present to the detriment of the future, desperately eschewing its hastened arrival for fear that it would not include me in its progression. And yet, every night, hour by hour, I would find myself succumbing to the physical and mental manifestations of sleep deprivation. I would come to plead for the very loss of control that I so viscerally feared, as

Medicine is a common treatment for insomnia, but the effectiveness of medicine remains uncertain. It is unclear whether medicine has profound improvements in sleep or whether residual symptoms may hinder functioning more. The presence of residual symptoms has shown an association with an additional day of unrestful sleep.15 Yet, medicine has shown improvements in sleep and functioning, although weaker in comparison to CBT15 and Mongolian medical acupuncture.11 Bo et al. directly studied the relationship between acupuncture and medicine,11 while Morin et al. used the relationship between CBT alone or with medicine.13 Morin et al. lacked a medicine only group, but instead furthered their study to examine whether further treatment or no treatment in both groups were effective or not.13 Conflicting with Fitzgerald et al., Morin et al. showed tapering medicine in the extension group to show less improvement in functioning.13 Cancelation of medicine and continuation of CBT would have stopped the presence of residual symptoms and therefore would have shown improvement, but was not the case. Although both CBT and medicine were both effective in improving sleep and daytime functioning, only CBT showed significant reductions in anxiety, depression, and

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Sleep can be effected in a number of different ways whether it is by the environment, your thoughts, or your pre-sleep routine, there are multiple factors involved. Many people have their own techniques that work well for them and some doctors have recommendations of their own. One tried and true technique for falling asleep is by utilizing different breathing exercises or simply focusing on the breath. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of breathing techniques on sleep.

“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to, then forcing oneself to stay awake for days on end must surely come a close second.”

No hypnotic beat Could hope to compete With your gentle hands on me That made magical any melody There was nothing like our bumping knees And your clumsy feet That took an overplayed radio piece And turned it a scintillating symphony I wondered If you could feel the way my heart hammered As I smiled unabashedly into your shoulder Blissful and content as if I never got hurt

One way to have revieve good, quality sleep is to have a sleep routine. A tactic some use to ensure interrupted sleep is having a constant background noise. For example, soothing noises often times create a peaceful atmosphere during times of rest. “White” noises and “pink” noises are a great way to calm the body down each night (“White, Pink, or Brown: Which Noise Helps You Sleep Better?”). Some people enjoy pink noise; this could sound like pouring rain or a waterfall. Others prefer white noise, ie. a fan blowing. A writer, Jessica Gross said in her article that when the body shuts down at night, hearing is still active (“6 Things That Influence Your Dreams”). At certain times, a sound can be incorporated into a dream. This is not a common occurrence; however, for this to happen, the sound must be adequate volume, so it will not interrupt the phase of sleep (“White, Pink, or Brown: Which Noise Helps You Sleep Better?”). Normally, a sleeping body will not wake when its other four senses are

Prentiss Green was sleep on the pass-down from 2nd to 3rd shift, we did stretch and after he sat down he was out for the next 10-15 min, I did all the lines and when was turn for facilities I called his name twice and he didn’t respond; then went next to him called again and I have to tap on his knee twice before he react. I did put him on notice for sleeping.