Polyphasic sleep

Don’t look for happiness, create it Written by Alecsandra Plavan “I looked around me, all my friends seemed to have found happiness, whether it was their dream job, travelling the world or starting a new family. I lay awake all night long, trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, why I feel so lost and why my life lacked so much direction. Little did I know that instead of spending countless sleepless nights trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I should have focused on what I wasn’t…

Chapter 1 : Old Pervert, Young Thief The sky was dark and filled with stars the moon stood above all with radiant rays of white light shining throughout the land. The sounds of a fire could be heard in a small dark cave on the mountain side within this cave there was a teenage boy currently eating a small piece of chicken which he cooked on the bonfire within the cave moments ago. The boy had medium length black hair reaching his shoulders when one looked at him they would sense a calm aura…

important study by Barger, Flynn-Evans, Czeisler, et al.25 examined the sleep deficiency and medication use among astronauts. The objective of the study was “to characterize representative sleep patterns of astronauts on both short-duration and long-duration spaceflight missions”.25 The authors conducted an observational study that examined the ISS and space shuttle missions. To assess sleep, the authors utilized actigraphy and sleep logs, which collected data three months before the space…

wants to stay where he is at, because he was brainwashed into forgetting about his home. Odysseus is a very conflicting character. He is portrayed as a hero while others deny this claim. He loves his wife and wants to return home to her, however, he sleeps with the goddess Calypso where it is believed he even has fathered a child. He endures many adventures and many different characters on his return home, but this story of Calypso and how she is keeping him as her captive and as her husband,…

Research Problem Pioneering research into the effects and countermeasures of fatigue is largely understudied according to Scott et al. (2010); the effects of extended work hours, time hours worked and the inverse relation to sleep and nursing errors has received little recognition. Furthermore, the problem of night shift fatigue is so prevalent the American Nurses Association (ANA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the Joint Commission have called for fatigue countermeasures to be researched…

Most of these goals are a work in progress, but I’m satisfied I’ve laid the foundations for a successful second semester. To begin at the beginning, a lot of my stress prior to Babson (hence lack of sleep) was caused by my inability to reconcile with my own emotions – particularly in regard to my sexuality. On entering college, my working thesis was that if I actually engage with a pride community, then my seeming state of perpetual stress would just…

Sleep is vital to a human’s prosperity and ability to function and survive. While experts have not yet determined why humans need to sleep, they agree that sleep is vital and that without it the ability of the individual and the society as a whole falters (Feldman, p.144). Aaron E. Carroll (2016) under The New York Times writes that “younger people need more sleep than adults...teenagers about 9 to 10 hours a night. [And] It’s likely few teenagers are sleeping that much”(p. 3). Carroll had…

the semester. While my efforts surrounding my first goal of tracking my sleep were commendable, my efforts to eat healthier were wavering. I consistently used a sleep tracking app to ensure I was getting enough rest. While I only met my sleep goal approximately 1-2 days of the week, I was much more aware of the amount of sleep I was getting. If I had not prioritized sleep in this way, I believe that I would have been more sleep deprived which I know to be detrimental to my mood and my overall…

think. Technology has advanced so much over these last couple of years and has caused humans to depend on technology for literally almost everything. Throughout the media fast quite a few positive aspects came about from it which would include more sleep, less stress, more free time, and the ability to work on social skills. As a freshman at Winthrop University I was required to take ACAD 101. ACAD is a class that is essential for all first-time freshman. This course introduces students to the…

Depending on the severity of the disability the child may have more issues sleeping through the night even more than a newborn baby. It takes a toll on the parent, mostly the mother, because the child is unable to sleep through the night so the mother often needs to provide nighttime care. This subsequently causes mothers to have higher stress levels as well as negative effects on their mental health. There was a scientific study that was done in Chicago that tested…