Narrative Essay On Sleep

To begin, when I recorded my sleep it was obvious that there was no pattern, no habits and that I have been sleeping very inconsistent. Sleep is like anything in life, it needs a routine. This is the reason that when I recorded how I felt for that day most of the time it was not refreshed. In college it is hard to set a bedtime and to wake up the same time every day, but one of the main things that I noticed while recording my sleep is that I went to bed at different times every night and woke up at different times every morning. From this information I concluded that my body was not in a rhythm and this is one of the main reasons for not being refreshed. Another thing that I do not do is take naps. It sounds silly to say that naps are needed,

Due to the fact that I have not been as active I have not been sleeping as well. In high school I would work out in the morning, have a physical education class which I could run in and then go and play soccer or wrestle which are both very physically demanding. On the sleep assignment it only asked if I worked out for twenty minutes, and that is not enough for me to tire. In college I lost some motivation to work out and throughout this sleep diary assignment I realized how important being active is. When I am more active I sleep better, when I am not as active I tend to not want to go to sleep because my body is not tired. I have made it a goal to work out and run more every day because of the information I discovered throughout this

On most nights I do homework before I fall asleep and homework is very stressful and tends to make me overthink everything. When I am stressed I do not sleep well and this sleep study supported that. Some nights I would take Emergan-Zzzz which is a sleep aid that has melatonin in it, which helps relax me and helps me fall asleep, but does not determine how well I end up sleeping. That is one thing that really surprised me throughout this sleep project. Melatonin helps me fall asleep, but does not help me sleep any better because I did not wake up very refreshed most night that I took it. The two things that made me sleep really well was reading and sex. This sounds sort of silly, but on day five I was reading and this seemed to relax me and allow me to fall asleep quickly and to sleep very well. Then, on day seven I had sex before going to bed and I believe this was stress reliever and was physically demanding and this allowed me to sleep very