Personal Narrative: Sleeping Like A Child

If I were to wake up as a bug, I initially would be shocked. Unlike Gregor being calm at when he first woke up, I might scream for help. If I woke up completely changed, I might break down in tears and stay in bed until someone came and saved me. Waking up as a bug would change my life and I probably might kill myself because living that way sounds terrible and instead of living like a bug I rather not live.

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

There are a few factors that are essential for life such as breathing or eating, but one of the most essential factor is sleep. Even though the amount of sleep people need differs from one individual to another, the fact is that eventually everyone needs to sleep. People know the importance of sleep, but due to the increased workload and the pressure of society people are getting less sleep. As a result, there has been an increase interest on the effects lack of sleep has on the mind especially the memory of a person. Many questions arose about the relationship between sleep and memory due to the fact most high school and college students have become sleep deprived. For example, does more sleep mean higher grades?

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

Before my arrival to the Naval Academy Preparatory School, I was well aware that I would be challenged mentally, physically and morally. I knew that my success at NAPS would warrant an appointment to the Naval Academy, and it would be based off of my best efforts. I struggled through the curriculum while at NAPS, but I endured by turning to the professors and tutors during their office hours in order to fully prepare myself for upcoming exams. I knew that in order to get through the Academy, it was absolutely essential that I carried over the qualities of hard work and perseverance over the following four years. The academics at the Academy proved to be challenging, and I relied on my personal sense of hard work and dedication in order to

Sleep was terrifying. Ever since Allie and her mother, Eva, had ran off from her murderous father, Allie had been avoiding falling into the darkness called sleep. Her father was a madman, he convinced Allie from a young age that everything he was doing was for her. Every week, Allie saw another man go into their basement, and never come out. What her father did to these men was left to question.

Aaron couldn't take his eyes off the window even if he'd physically been able to.

As I sit down in the lecture hall waiting for calculus class to begin, I overhear two girls talking behind me.

I wake up from a nap, hot and dizzy, to read a message from Mercedes,

Hello Precious Pinky Painters, It's FRIDAY!!! And I have high plans for the weekend - Sleep. No, not very interesting, but completely necessary. I plan to catch some Zzzz's inbetween chauffering the boys from practices to events, to activities. I'm getting tired thinking about it. I hear my bed calling so let's get this post going.

Sleeping is a huge problem. Kids are suppose to sleep for 9 hours. But most of the time they only get 5 hours or less. Another problem is that kids sleep in class. And they get sick easier. School should start at 9:00. Kids don't even have time for breakfast. If school started a little later we would have time for breakfast.And if kids eat breakfast at school they usually get tardy.

There are five basic stages in cycles I go thought when I am going sleep though out the night. Stage one, which lasts about five minutes, my brain waives becomes slower and irregular. Then I would go in to stage two, which lasts around ten to twenty minutes, I would have a regular EEG and less then 50 percent of this time is spent in this stage. Stage three is a short transition, which is made up of twenty to fifty percent delta waves. Stage four is around fifteen to twenty minutes, in this stage I have less than fifty percent delta waves and it is where I get the deepest sleep. Then I would cycle back through stages three and two before I enter into stage five. In stage five, which is called REM, which last ten to twenty minutes and I will

I have actually already created a sleep plan for myself. At the beginning of the semester last year when my Psychology Professor had us do a sleep study for extra credit after we learned about how important sleep it. I realized after learning about it that I did tend to to better, and feel better when going on a sleep schedule. I adjust my sleep schedule every semester to get the best sleep mixed with the most time to be productive depending on my schedule. I am happy to say that at least most of the time, I follow it pretty well. Since I already sleep decently well the majority of the time, I will be sharing my typical sleep schedule, and what I could possibly do to further improve upon it.

When I was younger every summer I went to a summer military camp for 2 months every after

Delapore had officially gone through an emotional roller coaster that all started when he had to leave his job depression seeking in he was going crazy not being able to sleep insomnia is a symptom of depression, “When you do not sleep for an extended period of time you become drowsy and are unable to concentrate. The effects of sleeplessness are similar to alcohol in that it makes you less able to control your actions. You become uncoordinated and slow. If staying awake continues for one and a half days or more your mental faculties become severely impaired. This means that you might not know what is real and what is not” (Ygoy).