Sleep

There is a high school saying, “you can have two of the following but not all three: Social Life, Good Grades, or Sleep.” Only a mere two years ago, I vividly remember entering high school and hearing this saying. At the time, I was Timorous. What do I give up? Will I lose my friends? My good grades? As school started, I kind of found my spot. I wasn 't obtaining all 100’s but nothing below a 93. I slept eight hours a night. Life was great, I had no teachers that taught as Machiavelli. I had a…

Can’t sleep at night? There is hundreds of reasons why. Everyone has had a rough night of sleep, which brought them to question something being really wrong. Through your lifestyle, anxiety and depression you can cause your own sleeping disorders. Insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea and plenty more effect thousands of people, but all in different ways. Although, there is no cure, you can get treated to ease you back into the right routine. In this essay the most serious and common disorders will…

Aggression and violence have been around for a long time and today is no different; bullying, verbal abuse, assaults, even murder, still plague society. Despite this, we often put a lot of effort into eliminating aggressive behaviors every day. The role of sleep-wake regulation in human aggression and violence has been severely neglected, although…

Why do we sleep? Sometimes you're asking when we sleep do we stop breathing do we somehow just die for 12 hours then wake up again. This is how it is when you are tired you normally go and rest drink something or even go to sleep why that's a simple question your body need to rest. Put don”t go to sleep for a long time if you're really tired just sleep for like one or two hours put then wake up again you body need the sun it needs to do something rather then just sleep all day because if…

goes off its 7:00 in the morning, you don’t want to wake up because you went to sleep at 2:00am. Your body is still sleeping, however, you get up and get out of bed exhausted. You say to yourself, it’s alright my body will catch up and will wake up the rest of the way as I go throughout my day and I will go to bed at 2:00 am and wake up at 7:00 am, you do this Monday through Friday and then on the weekends you sleep in extra-long. This is hazardous to your body in that you are more prone to…

The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 poll of Sleep In America stated that 60% of adult drivers (around 168 million people) said they drove feeling drowsy in the year of 2004, about 37% (approximately 103 million people) reported to have fallen asleep while driving, and 4% said they had experienced an accident because they were tired while driving (NSF, 2016). There are also estimations of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of 100,000 police reported crashes resulting of driver…

In the words of John Steinbeck, ‘It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” In other words, we are able to make better decisions when we are well rested. In this manner, just as eating and breathing, the act of sleep represents one of the physiological needs according to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. As a matter of fact, the stage pyramid proposed by Maslow comprises a motivational theory based on…

think properly. The early start times combined with the teen sleep cycle causes sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation combined with homework, activities, and possible daily problems and imbalances in hormones can cause depression. According to the National Sleep Foundation most teens face sleep deprivation which can cause depression, anxiety, and mood changes which are not helpful for a normal functioning teenager. Some teens with sleep deprivation…

I have chosen to watch the video by Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? Russell Foster says that “If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep”. That sounds like a lot to me, but I know that sleep in a necessary part of life. Although scientists don’t have a definitive answer as to why we sleep, they do have some theories. One of those theories is that during sleep our bodies are resting our muscles or recuperating and our…

officer’s work day. A sleep deprived officer is at risk of being ineffective while preforming daily duties (Krause, 2014). Police Officer must have an adequate amount of rest to perform their duties effectively. Police work, involves many events and activities that require an officer’s on divided attention. Police Officers work for up to 12 hours a shift, at times even more, which pinpoints to sleep deprivation and the ineffective job performance. Problem Statement Sleep deprivation, a…