Polyphasic sleep

irregular circadian sleep cycle and insomnia for a while. In recent lectures on Biopsychology, the course dabbled upon the topics of sleep. This sparked my passion and thus writing this paper to demonstrate my past casual researches in polyphasic napping and sleep in general. Sleeping is by far one of the most imperative biological needs for majority of organisms. It is comprised of 4 stages: NREM 1, NREM 2, NREM 3, and REM. In NREM 1, it is considered as light sleep. This stage transition from awake state (Alpha Wave, about 8 to 13 Hz) to onset of sleep (Theta Wave, about 4 to 7 Hz). In NREM 2, it consists about 45 to 55% of total sleep in adult and is characterized by sleep spindles (12 to 14 Hz) and k-complexes. This stage…

Schnyer, D. V. (2009). Decision-Making Under Conditions of Sleep Deprivation: Cognitive and Neural Consequences. Military Psychology (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 2136-45.Journal This study was designed to investigate how sleep deprivation affected the decision making with a sample of fifteen participants, four females and nine males. Previous studies, which focused on working memory, concluded in conflicting results; some labs have found that sleep deprivation slowed down cognitive processes…

Sleep, it’s a wonderful thing. Whether it is the warm protection of the sheets, the engulfment of your head in the fluff of the pillow or simply the bliss dreaming the night away, sleep, it’s a beautiful thing, but too often this blissful ritual is sacrificed and ignored in the life of a college student. The number one phrase out of any college student, other than “I’m so broke,” is “I’m so tired.” Coming to class or work with dark circles under the slightly glazed over eyes, venti coffee in…

to help sleep deprived children? Children and Teens are not getting proper growth opportunities and a major reason to this is the amount of sleep they get which goes back to the ridiculous school start times, there needs to be a change. Other countries are starting to do it, why shouldn’t Australia? Drugs and medicines aren’t going to help or even changing sleeping styles. Children are becoming more and more sleep deprived by the day and if we don’t make a fix to this it may become…

Sleep is an essential habit we human beings used to utilize. There is hardly possible to imagine our lives without this habit. Though as we people differ between each other the same way sleep patterns do.This overview conducted all around three different publications. One paper overviews history aspects relevant to various sleep patterns. Another one is research around sleep evolution infants undergoing during growth period between two and eight years age at the same moment analyzing the way…

Monophasic sleep and variations of polyphasic sleep have their own advantages and disadvantages. Monophasic sleep is generally the most convenient sleep cycle, it has high flexibility in sleeping/waking hours and there is minimal risk of sleep deprivation, but it requires a relatively large amount of total sleep. It is best suited to people working regular hours. Following are the some of the advantages of biphasic sleep cycle: Napping during the day improves memory and cognitive functions. If…

prior to 8 A.M. go through the day in a sleep-deprived manner. Early school start times affect how teenagers…

Late into the night, a girl falls into a deep sleep. After a while, she has a dream that she is trapped in a dark and dreary basement. She begins to cautiously wander around looking for a way out as her heart is racing. All of the sudden, she hears a loud crackling sound. She hastily turns around to see what had made the noise. To her surprise, she saw a large, bright orange flame expanding out over the whole width of the hallway behind her. By looking intensely at the flames, she notices…

years ago that the tents were best used for supply storage, and so they slept outside under one of the campsites dining pavilions in the evenings. My friend and I joined them the third night of camp and as fell to sleep I heard the older boys laughing and whispering to each other. I thought nothing of it and went to sleep. I awoke the next morning to find my friend and his cot had disappeared. I found out later on that the older scouts had saran-wrapped my friend to his caught and moved him to a…

attendance, enrollment rates, and more alert students. The adolescents actually gained five hours of sleep every night when they started school later (Esherick 71). Students have reported feeling better over all. Just the extra half hour has lead to teenagers going to bed sooner. Since the teens had an less difficulty focusing, it took them less time to complete their homework. This gives them more time to relax and sleep (Park 2). Without the time change, students make simple mistakes on…