Rapid eye movement sleep

Alcohol may be the most common drug used amongst college athletes. Generally, most of these athletes blatantly ignore the factors that are detrimental to achieving the optimal performance they are searching for. Often times, athletes may find themselves with little spare time to go out drinking and partying, but that little time may be spent binge drinking and getting heavenly intoxicated. Overtime, professionals have documented the effects of alcohol and how it adversely effects being on top…

Typically, people enjoy receiving an extra hour of sleep, even an extra five minutes of sleep. Teens are just one group of people who enjoy sleep. Unfortunately, teens are unable to obtain the correct amount of hours per night. Later school start times would be beneficial because the schools would see an impact on attendance, increased school performance, and based on several studies, students would receive the recommened amount of sleep. The psychological effects would greatly outweigh the…

At the University of Rochester scientists have figured out why we sleep. Apparently we sleep because at night, when we go to bed our brains wipes itself and then it figures out what to keep and what to throw away. Whenever a student studies for 4 hours a night for a test and then wakes up not remember any of it is because the brain reads that has some useless information and decides to delete it. Where does the information go? Well it first comes from your cells working and the waste, the…

Importance of Sleep for Correct Cognitive and Bodily Functioning I had experienced a complete flip of my circadian rhythm. I was sleeping during the day and attempting to function at night. I was experiencing the world in darkness. Going to sleep at 7 in the morning and waking up at 5 in the evening takes a toll on the body both mentally and physically. At the time my life was at a standstill. I had no obligations during the day to be awake for, I had nowhere to be and no one to see. It…

The correlation between sleep deprivation and health deterioration Sleep is an activity everyone takes part in. Some require more sleep than others and some can have as little as two hours of sleep with little or no repercussions, although Cartwright (2010) notes, “Very few people are truly physiologically and psychologically healthy with only 5 hours of sleep on a nightly basis”. One may wonder if they are getting adequate nightly sleep. Cartwright (2010) explains how there is no real way to…

Quality of Life Scale (QOL) , Sleep Scale, Childhood Traumatic event Scale, Civilian PTSD Scale, Recent Traumatic Event Scale, Becks Anxiety Inventory, Becks Depression Inventory. On the PHQ-9 the client scored a fourteen and very difficult. On the (ASRS-v1.1) the client 's score was not consistent with adult ADHD. On the QOLS the client scored a seventy one displaying room for improvement. The sleep scale displayed that the client was only obtaining four hours of sleep a night in which she…

Sleep Deprivation and Mental Health The young college student is lost. The last few weeks have taken a toll on his body and his mind. After spending countless hours studying for tests and continuously completing homework assignments, he attempts to focus and complete his seven page extra-credit assignment, but to no avail. His head feels heavy, and he cannot focus on once easy tasks and is constantly exhausted. Although it is not natural, he is not the only one who faces the same problem.…

but everyone dreams. To some people there will always be a fascination with dreams and why we have them. How do we take what we do in our every day lives and turn them into something make-believe, which could be both magical and horrifying, when we sleep? What does it mean when we dream the same dream over and over? Can dreams predict the future? There are many questions and theories pertaining to the interpretation of dreams that help people better understand what their dreams mean. In the…

Nor is he truly a knight. He is simply sleep deprived. “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” (Cervantes) It has been clinically proven that lack of sleep can have detrimental effects on the mind and ones grip on reality. “Sleep deprivation can actually cause other symptoms that mimic mental illness, such as disorientation and paranoid thoughts.” (Sleep, Performance, and Public Safety) Because of the time Don…

Introduction “Wishes suppressed during the day assert themselves in dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999)." Most of us, if not all, have experienced waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and paranoid, looking around the room to see if there is someone else in the room. Most of us have spent the day worrying about something nerve racking and then having that show up in our dreams. Most people dream at least 4 to 6 times per night during the REM stage, although we…