Sleep Reflection

I have learned that my sleeping habits do have an affect on my daily life. I should try and get enough sleep, so that my body can actually rest and not be so stressed out. I wish that I would not skip dinner for homework, because when I do wake up, my stomach hurts a lot from not eating. This problem also makes me crash during the day since I do not have enough time to eat, and so my production level decreases.

I chose to modify my sleeping behavior for my behavior modification project. Sleep is something that I have always had a problem with. In high school I would get an average of about 5 hours of sleep a night, and now as a junior in college I get about 5-6 hours a night. I wanted to modify this behavior because I feel that not getting enough sleep is negatively affecting my mood, health, and overall outlook on my every day experience. It would be beneficial to me to be more awake and happy throughout my days rather than be tired and pushing myself to stay awake. My main issue with my sleeping behavior is the amount of time I spend per

Ever since I have begun life at college, I have found going to bed on a decent time each night a very troublesome task. I wake up feeling very tired the next morning, and I always seem in a rush to get my day started. Because of staying up so late and then not waking up on time, I am sometimes late to work or class. In addition, I find myself very tired and stressed throughout the day. This in effect makes me often irritable toward other people. I am tired of living my life in a constant flurry every morning. Thus, the behavioral change that I would like to alter is my sleeping schedule. Being tired after a night of sleep just leads to anxiety and causes even

Exercise regularly can help fight and reducing stress, beside after doing exercise can improve our quality of sleeping.

Different age groups of people require different hours of sleep. Children and adolescents require nine to eleven hours of sleep per day. Adults need 7-9 hours, yet some people feel better sleeping lesser hours even with those guidelines. It is true that alcohol helps people sleep faster, but sleep is disrupted once the level which is in the blood starts to fall. It might lead to waking up and difficulties to fall back to sleep. It is true that depression and anxiety may lead to lead to insomnia but for a short time. People should understand that insomnia is not only brought by depression, but chronic pain, bad side-effects of a particular medication, worries and stress are also known to cause long-term insomnia (Okun et al., 2009). Depression and anxiety should not keep an individual awake for a long time but only for a short time. Additionally, the myth that it is right the lie in bed sleepless is not true. Everyone requires sleep during the day or at night, and it is necessary for the body and the brain to function properly. Notably, sleep is good for relaxing the brain in adults and in children, sleep is important for development (Szelenberger, 2006). One should not be fooled that sleep is not necessary, but those people with insomnia should practice relaxation techniques for them to fall asleep. It is true that people tend to sleep few hours as they

The fruits of all this inquiry? Ten things, below. In addition to Konnikova’s articles, I’ll also cite Shawn Stevenson’s Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Help, and Bigger Success. (The subtitle is a little self-helpy for my liking, but it’s a cool book.)

I have completed the sleep assessment and I am not surprise with the outcome it gave me. The results showed that my sleep habits could be better. Some days are better than others, but generally, I do wake up drowsy and hitting my alarm clock once or twice. I admit, I usually stay up on my phone past midnight like any other young adult. If it is not my phone that is keeping me up at night, it’s usually my mind reminding me of all the stress that may be going on in my life.

After reviewing my sleep not only from the first sleep log but from the time since then I saw I needed to improve my sleep, even taught it will be a challenge because I will have to decide between saying up and doing work or going to sleep and both are important, but since I thought my sleep sort of problem I decide to try to alter even a little. So this was and still is important for me, I decide that I will leave a note on my laptop reminding me thus preventing me from procreating s much as I would have before, as well as having my boyfriend enforce this; I felt having someone remind me of my goal and make me think of the consequence and benefits and this did prove helpful, but it was still challenging to pick between sacrificing work for sleep. Other steps I took to assure that I will stick to my plan was, installing flux to my lap top, turning on night shift, setting one or two alarm in the morning without snooze, eliminating the light that comes through my window. Mostly importantly reminding myself that at one point i had reached a time where I would consistently go to bed in the morning when the sun would rise and it did become difficult to get back to a normal sleeping pattern and I don 't want to experience those stressful nights of staying in

I repeated the same time routine I usually do at work. In addition, I would always get coffee during break time to refresh my mind and keep working for the rest of the day. However, this time I arrived home late because of traffic and felt very tired by 11 pm I was so exhausted that I slumber past the next day. As a result, I woke up at 7:00 am feeling rejuvenated and did not feel exhausted at all. Then, that night I went to lie down at 11 pm and I felt asleep right away. I feel I have made some progress and will continue this process to regain full control of my circadian rhythm or sleep pattern.

Last night I went to bed at 10:00 PM, which is right on my goal. Although I urged myself to go to bed at 10:00 PM, I did have difficulty falling asleep because I wasn't tired. The solution for that is to not wake up after 6:00 AM in the morning. I woke up at about 8:00 AM when I usually wake up at 6:00 AM, which means I got two extra hours of sleep. Those two extra hours could take into effect whether or not I am tired at night. In addition, I did take a nap so that is probably another reason why I didn't feel tired. To continue reaching my goal I need to make sure not to wake up no later than 6:00 AM, and

Being sleep deprived can also affect driving, can affect performance in school, and can lead to illness (Iarovici, 2014, p. 32). Social activities in college contribute to sleep problems, for example, drug use and heavy alcohol drinking (Iarovici, 2014, p. 32). However, sleep problems are not only caused by unhealthy lifestyles. Sleep problems during college years, a major time of development, can be a sign of mental illness such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder (Iarovici, 2014, p. 40). However, there are students who try have tried everything to fall asleep (e.g., not drink alcohol or caffeinated drinks) and they still experience sleeping problems. Some people have genes that cause them to be more alert during the night than in the morning, and others have delayed sleep syndrome, in which circadian rhythms are abnormal (Iarovici, 2014, p. 42). Delayed sleep syndrome is more common in young adults and interestingly, people obtain enough sleep, but they tend to fall asleep during the early morning than during the night (Iarovici, 2014, p. 42). Even though the individual may be getting eight hours of sleep, such a shift in sleeping time can lead to individuals feeling depressed because they cannot enjoy the activities others enjoy during the day, and can lead to individuals having

Treat your body well by getting a full night's sleep as much as possible and it will treat you well right back. You might think the opposite, but we really can't function without consistent rest! The all-nighter won't be worth it when you're a zombie the next day. Set a bed time everyday and wake up each morning at the same time. Wind down before bed with a good book, writing in your journal, or sweet music. Avoid watching TV in your bed or doing homework there so your brain won't associate your sleeping space with space to work

First, I start by setting a date of achieving this goal. I can also include incremental goals before my final date. I can start out by going to bed 15 minutes earlier than usual, and keep moving this back by 15 minutes in order to go to bed an hour earlier. Just I have previous stated, I can remind myself of the health benefits of getting 8 hours of sleep. Also, I should be aware of the barriers I acquire. These barriers may be, not having the motivation to go to bed earlier, not yet being tired, and being too busy to go to bed at the right time. My strategies for overcoming these barriers are to remind myself of the health benefits, and if I am too busy I should try to better my time management. Changing my amount of sleep during the school year I believe in the long run will help me to do better in class and work by having more energy and feeling less

After I come home from school I like to take about an hour to myself and just chill out. This includes just sitting back watching tv and playing on my phone. I like to relax my mind from the stresses of the school day. I find it exceedingly unfair that we have to go to school seven hours a day, then have another extra 1-2 hours of homework. On top of that, I also work 3-4 days a week from 4pm-10pm. By the time I get home I am so exhausted I just want to go to bed. On my days off, I do not really want to do homework either. I want to have a social life and hangout with my boyfriend and also make time to workout, which is a real passion of mine. Bruni perfectly describes the sleepless nights as “enough is enough.” On average, I get around 6-7 hours of sleep a night, sometimes even less because I have to get up earlier in the mornings to workout before school. If I did not have to try to balance everything else on top of school, sleep would not be an issue. Since I have started high school, I have really learned how to manage and prioritize my

Having a job can be rewarding yet life consuming. As any regular teenager I worked at least 5 days a week at 5 in the morning. I tried to juggle time with friends, work, sleep, and preparing for college. I quickly discovered hanging out with friends late at night was no longer an option. I would not fall asleep until midnight leaving me 4 hours to sleep before going to work. By the middle of summer sleep became a huge problem for me. I felt anxious when it was time to fall asleep and would be tossing and turning for hours until my body finally won the battle with my brain to finally let me sleep. I decided to experiment with different methods to help me fall asleep. The first method I tried was taking a natural sleeping aid, melatonin. This worked the first couple nights, but then my body became immune to it and the melatonin had no effect on my sleep. Since natural sleep aids were not helping I tried the second option, ZZZQuil. This of course worked but I knew it was not healthy. I asked some of my friends if they had any suggestions on sleep aids, and one of my friends suggested a self-guided trick to help relax all of the muscles in your body. This self-guided meditation technique has