The Importance Of Sleep Balance

Sleep Balance: Does it really matter? Tom, a young adult, is in the current processes of transitioning from high school to college and as doing so feels stressed, as many thoughts rush through his head. He has many things to do in such brief time, such as to going school full time, working two jobs, and having a social life. Likewise, with the many things tom has to do, he forgets the most important thing, which is to sleep! After a busy Wednesday, Tom went to bed at 3 a.m. Also, let 's not forget the fact that he has to wake up at 7 a.m. in order to make it to his Psychology 1 class at 8 a.m. If you calculate the hours of sleep he will get, it is four hours! As reported by the National Sleep Foundation, “the average adult needs seven to nine hours of sleep each night” (Boyd). We are all …show more content…
For instance, when you are 3-5 years old it is required you get 11-13 hours per night, whereas when you are 18+ years old you need 7.5-9 hours of sleep (Smith, Robinson, and Segal, 2016). Obviously, adults require fewer hours of sleep, but that still does not mean you can run a successful day off of five hours of sleep. I feel terrible and without energy when I am going to class and work when I only got six hours of sleep the night before. Furthermore, “Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, discovered that some people have a gene that enables them to do well on six hours of sleep a night. This gene, however, is very rare, appearing in less than 3% of the population (Smith, Robinson, and Segal, 2016). Clearly, it is rare to be able to run smoothly off six hours of sleep, because 97% of the population cannot function as well off six hours of sleep. It is rare like a four leaf clover! However, if you do have that gene, it does not mean that you are not putting yourself at risk of having to go through the effects of sleep