Getting an adequate amount of sleep each night is very important to your health. It is as important as a good diet and exercise. Poor sleep leads to depression, health problems, and accidents. The basic sleeping problems are is that it is difficult to fall or stay asleep. These are caused stress, traveling to a different time zone, and worrying over a major decision.
When you are asleep, you have four different stages that you go through. The first one is drowsiness. You wake up easily in this five to ten minute stage. Light sleep is the second stage. Your heart rate slows, body temperature decreases, and your eye motion stops. The third and last stage is deep sleep. If you awake from deep sleep you normally feel groggy. Deep sleep restores your energy and immune system function. Rapid eye movement (REM) happens seventy-ninety minutes after you enter your sleep cycle. REM helps you relieve stress, process emotions, retain memories, and boosts your mood. In REM, your heart rate is up, along with your blood pressure. You normally have three to five episodes per night.
Everyone has a different amount of needs for sleep. Babies need more sleep than any of us. They should have ten to fourteen hours of sleep. Children around the ages of five need about eleven hours. Ages six to nine need about ten hours. Nine to ages twelve need around nine hours of sleep. Teenagers also need nine hours, but they want to stay up later, and get up later too, which isn´t very good for their school schedules. Adults need around seven to eight hours of sleep. Older adults normally take naps during the day which is included in the seven to eight hours that they need for sleep.
There are many ways that can help you get a decent amount of sleep. A few of these include
of, keeping the room cool, quiet, and dark. Try to make sure to get at least six hours of sleep. Develop and follow a sleep routine. Avoid eating three to four hours before going to sleep. Do something relaxing, such as taking a shower, before going to sleep. Drink less to avoid going to the bathroom. Avoid caffeine three to five hours before sleeping.
Sleep has benefits that re boost our system. These benefits make it easier for our daily life, as well as others around us. Sleep improves our mood, it organizes our memories, and helps strengthen our immune system. It helps breathing and also the digestive process. While we are asleep, our bodies grow/repair our cells and strengthens our muscles.
Sleep deprivation is when your not sleeping as much as you should. If you have sleep deprivation you normally have a hard time waking up in the morning. Poor performance in school, job, sports, or another function is also a side effect of sleep deprivation. You also become more clumsy, you tend to have a difficult time making decisions, and you fall asleep in the day. This also effects your mood, making you mad or upset.
Some people have sleep disorders. There are a lot of sleep disorders that effect peoples sleeping. Bruxism is when you grind your teeth uncontrollably while your sleeping. Night terrors make you wake up very afraid. Another one is sleepwalking, or somnambulism. This one has you do daily activities, but you are unconscious so you don´t know you are doing it. Rapid eye moment behavior disorder is where you act out a violent or dramatic dream. The causes of sleep disorders are normally chronic pain, back pain, neck pain, anxiety, or the use of various drugs. If you do have a sleep disorder, make a dream diary. They can be used as a tool to help diagnose and measure improvements in sleep disorders. Medications and psychological strategies are some treatments of sleeping disorders.
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