Teenage Healthy Sleeping Habits
By Jessica McKoy
The Importance of Sleep
Health Issues!
Attitude Changes!
More brain farts!
THE GUIDE HEALTHY SLEEPING HABITS
- MAKE A SLEEP DIARY
- TRY NOT TO TAKE NAPS CLOSE TO THE TIME YOUR GOING TO BED
- PLAN A SOLID SCHEDULE INCLUDING WAKEUP TIME AND BEDTIME AND STICK TO IT
- AVOID CAFFEINE THAT MIGHT BE IN SODA, COFFEE, ESPECIALLY MONSTER ENERGY DRINKS
- IF YOU DRIVE DO NOT GET BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A CAR WHEN YOU ARE FEELING SLEEP DEPRIVED
- DON'T LEAVE YOUR HOMEWORK OR TASKS YOU HAVE FOR THE END OF THE DAY LEFT TO DO AT BEDTIME
- CHOOSE QUIET OR CALMING ACTIVITIES TO DO BEFORE YOU GO TO BED
- FIND TIME TO EXERCISE SO THAT WHEN YOU DO LAY DOWN YOU CAN GET TO SLEEP
- KEEP A TO-DO LIST
- PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM WHICH IS YOUR INTERNAL CLOCK, IT TELLS YOU WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD SLEEP AND IS WHAT PUSHES YOU TO STAY UP EVEN LATER THAN YOU SHOULD AT NIGHT
Stages of Sleep
1: Your eyes are closed but you can still be woken without difficulty, there is a feeling of falling or lucidness
2: This is the preconscious mind. Your heart rate decreases and so does your temperature. Muscles relax more as you begin a deep sleep
3: This is a period of deep sleep that can make it difficult for a person to arouse or regain consciousness. From here you can either have REM sleep or NREM sleep. REM sleep is when brain functioning is similar to those of a conscious person's, a sleep disorder may make the person have voluntary muscle movements, or rapid breathing and heart rate, eyes will move rapidly in different directions. Most of the time this is associated with dream sleep. On the other hand during NREM sleep the body repairs and regenerates tissues, bone, muscle and builds up the immune system.