Sleep is often overlooked when it comes to health. People
don’t realize how important it really is. Daytime sleepiness, irregular sleep
schedules, and lack of sleep are very common throughout most college students. Sleep
affects many things that we are not always aware of. Sleep affects academic
performance. Yes, sleep helps our body get rested but little do people know it also
has a huge effect on the brain. Your brain needs rest in order to function
properly. Staying up late to cram for exams is not going to help you, it will
just cause unnecessary stress on the brain. When you go to sleep at night that
gives you the time for your brain to process its thoughts. Students who get
less sleep a night receive lower grades and have not as good of study habits as
students that get 7-8 hours of sleep every night.
Here are some tips to maintain good
sleeping habits:
1.
Wake up and go to bed around the same time every
day. Try to create a sleep schedule and then work hard to stick to it.
2.
Shoot for seven to nine hours of sleep every
night. These are needed in order for your body and brain to function properly.
3.
Don’t eat within 3 hours of bedtime. A simple
rule to stick to is, do not eat after 8 pm. Eating make it difficult for the body
to go to sleep.
4.
Use your bed as a place to sleep, not as a study
area. Make sure you study in a completely different area so when it is time for
bed your body knows that it is time to sleep.
5.
Avoid caffeine before bed. Caffeine is a
stimulant which keeps your body more alert. Drinking caffeine before bed could
make it very difficult to fall asleep at night.
6.
Naps are OK, but not longer than an hour. When
you sleep for longer than an hour throughout the day your body starts to think
that it is actually time to sleep and it will be extremely difficult for you to
fall asleep that night.
7.
Avoid electronics before bed. The light from the
screens on electronic devices act as sunlight to your brain, which will keep
you awake when trying to sleep.
HAPPY SLEEPING!
These are some good tips to getting enough good seep. But in college it can be really hard to get enough sleep, especially with the load of homework that we face.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Deanna Rigdon. But also these tips and some of this information is not always correct. Some of this stuff actually helps people to sleep at night.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this! As the two stated before me it is hard to get enough sleep in college, especially if you work as well. However, it is doable to get at least 5-6 hours asleep at night. In my opinion anyway.
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