The sleep

in life •  7 years ago 

The sleep

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Hi friends, have you ever noticed that some mornings you wake up in good shape, even if you have been sleeping later than usual and the opposite also, you have a lot of trouble waking up and you still feeling sleepy even after a few minutes while you were sleeping a little earlier than usual?

Your status at sunrise depends on several factors, the most important of which are sleep cycles. Indeed, the fact of feeling still asleep after getting up is due to the fact that you have been awakened in the middle of a sleep cycle, on the contrary, if you are in top form when your alarm clock rings, it simply means that he has sounded right at the right moment, that is to say in two cycles of sleep where at this moment, you are in a phase of semi-sleep.

Explanation

Sleep is composed of four phases:

  1. The sleep phase: it lasts about 20 minutes.

  2. Light sleep: this is the beginning of physical and intellectual recovery. During this phase, one is still likely to be woken up easily at the slightest noise or light.

  3. Deep sleep: the moment when the sleeper becomes insensitive to external factors. His immune defenses are strengthened and information accumulated throughout the day is anchored in his memory.

  4. Paradoxical sleep: this is the phase where dreams are the most numerous. At the physical level, the body loses all its muscle tone and our eyes make fast movements. These movements are called REM, Rapid Eye Movement.

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These four phases last about 90 minutes. During a night's sleep, four to six cycles can succeed each other by being interrupted by half-awake phases.

If the alarm rings in the middle of one of these cycles, you wake up tired. If you want to wake up in full form, it is essential that the alarm rings between two phases of deep sleep.

In summary, here is how to proceed: for an adult, it is expected that more or less five complete cycles of sleep to recover from fatigue. So if we have to get up for example at 6:00 am and we need to sleep at 7:30. In addition, it takes about 15 minutes to fall asleep, the ideal bedtime will be 21:15. If we can get up a little later at 07:00, we must add 30 minutes to our calculation and so we must go to bed at 21:45.

If it seems too complicated and tiring to do all this cacul, you can encode your data on sites designed specifically for this kind of calculation.

Here is one : https://sleep-calculator.com/

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Very interesting article! It teaches sleep really succinctly and easily. Thank you for sharing it!

I agree that it is important to go with the flow of your own body's natural circadian rhythm.

I have recently been truly examining what it is that causes a good night of sleep versus a bad one and a lot of this information really makes sense. I am fascinated with the recovery benefits that sleep provides for the body. Thank you for sharing this information and keep it up!

Thanks for sharing this! I checked out that link and it told me to go to sleep at 3:30 A.M. to wake up at 9:30 A.M. which is actually pretty close to my real schedule! Gonna try it out tonight!

Let me know how that works for you, would really like to hear your results!

Yip! This works and I have found this also very useful. I have been using this method for the last 2 months and I wake up more relaxed. Reason I am using this is because I need to study till late in the evening and then when I wake up in the morning, I feel soooo tired. With this method of waking up the right time, it will make you feel much more refreshed when waking up. You are more alert and actually remember things better. I am using sleep cycle for iPhone. Try it steemiters, you will be surprised and you can even see your sleeping cycle if you were in deep sleep or not and if you were rolling around or snoring.

Interesting, thank you 😊

REM sleep is most easily recognized by the rapid and apparently random side-to-side movements of the closed eyes. I award you with my vote and follow. Thanks for sharing

9:45pm to 7am? Thats 9 hours of sleep for and an adult.
Isn't that a little too much.
6-7 hours should be ideal for healthy and successful adult life.
But I have to say that I enjoyed reading this , learnt about Random Eye movement.
Think I'm slightly smarter than what I was 5 mins back.
Thank you:)

Yes indeed 9h that's a lot although it can do good from time to time. You can count fewer sleep cycles, the important ones and calculate not to cut the last one.

this topic is very urgent for me, I had a very recent question about sleep and then you posted a post, a superb coincidence :) thanks to all very well written, now we know how much to go to bed properly and how to get enough sleep. And most important of what sosotoit our dream. Excellent post, I advise everyone to read;)

My life is full of coicidence ;o) It's a pleasure !

Thank you very much for this. An answer to a question I did not know I had for over a decade.

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Good night friend

the sleep phase varies by person’s age, health status, and gender

That's a interesting video thanks for sharing
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I found the post interesting, I struggle with proper sleep since I work third shift and have trouble sleeping during the day.

keep a sound sleep..feeling fresh and be healthy..
thank's for sharing..

Good nyt

I read your article, I liked your writing. Hope everybody is so much better that you post it among us.
Thank you very much

Thanks for sharing, Amazing writing, I'm a deep sleeper myself.

Great post...
Thank you for share...
👮

The dreams stage of sleep is so amazing! I always fail to understand why we dream yet it's such a nice feeling

a beautiful writing, always happy.

Sleep plays an important role in our physical health. For example, sleep is involved in healing and repair of our heart and blood vessels

Research shows that consistently getting seven to eight hours of sleep per night is beneficial. Any more or less can increase your risk for serious conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and even death. Even sleep makes you feel better, but its importance goes way beyond just boosting your mood or banishing under-eye circles
Your article is very interesting and informative. I enjoyed to watch Video of Rapid Eye Movement.
Great job dear @lndesta120282 keep it up

Awesome post! I know stage 3 is also the stage where the brain is able to flush out toxins which were built up during the waking hours. Part of the toxin is a protein known as beta-amyloid and this has been linked to Alzheimer's. When in stage 3, the cerebrospinal fluid helps flush that toxin away. Getting enough sleep is crucial!

keep a sound sleep..feeling fresh and be healthy..

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Thanks for sharing you sleeping information, it is so helpful for us... @indesta120282

Thanks for sharing this.Very interesting article

Thanks for sharing this. A timely post.

How many hours a person will sleep on average per day ?? And
when is the most important sleeping hours of a person?

That's great. I also like sleeping mostly in the night. Sometimes, I wake up in the night, I think for some short call and then suddenly I can forget my ongoing dreams. Then it takes me some times to get back to sleep and then ouuuufffff.....I sleep again up to 11 am. Hope that my kids won't be like their father.

I use an app called sleep cycle to monitor my sleep.
I can tell when i havent had a good night sleep.

wonderful post.

Thanks for this tips. Eventually it can help me on my sleep pattern. I always have this experience awakened in the middle of my sleep, and when i get up in the morning i feel that, i don't have enough sleep. As i read in some articles we should have 7 hours of sleep, 6 hours is quite ok, but don't exceed 9 -10 hours. Exceeding in sleeping hours is quite harmful to our health.

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Very informative post, I'll try this out!

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