Studies have shown that sleeping well really affects the efficiency of all bodily functions. Although there will be many amongst you who think that sleeping only five hours a night is sufficient, the statistics show that we all need to sleep for at least a certain amount of hours to live a healthy life.
In order to get most out of our daily tasks we need sufficient rest to recharge our organic batteries. Doctors advise us to get at least eight hours of sleep as a minimum. Some people go overboard and love sleeping in for about 10 to 12 hours each day – this is not advisable. Sleeping too much tends to make us lethargic and is also one of the leading causes of weight gain.
Most people who live in busy cities tend to have much less sleep than those who don’t. Some of these causes include having children, or having extremely busy work schedules. Thus, these folks to sleep very little during the working week and try to catch up on rest on Saturdays and Sundays. Medical research has shown that in doing so, one never gets to totally recharge himself or herself to take on the next week’s worth of work – this is probably why a lot of us yearn to for long vacations so often. It is always better to maintain a healthy and sufficient sleep pattern rather than draining ourselves out then attempting to make up for it towards the end of each week.
Here is another fact for you. When you have vivid dreams, it doesn’t mean that you are getting a deeper or more restful sleep than usual, despite what certain reports and media have said. We all have dreams, but whether or not we remember them depends on when we wake up in relation to the dream. You essentially have to wake up immediately after a dream and stay awake for 45 seconds to about three minutes before it fades from your memory.
Do you tend to hit the snooze button each and every morning? If you do, you might want to stop the habit in either wake up when you’re supposed to or set your alarm clock to go off later. Sleeping in an extra 10 minutes does nothing but make you feel even worse as the day goes by. Why is this? We sleep in cycles, and it takes a certain amount of time to move from one cycle to another. Getting up and then going back to bed will just make you feel worse when you finally wake up.
On a final note, we should always get regular exercise to maintain our health as well as sleep cycles. It is a known fact that exercise and physical exertion helps us sleep better at night. If you’re finding it hard to fall asleep, try doing some light workouts in the early evenings and see if it makes any difference. Just don’t work out vigorously right before bedtime as this will make it even harder for you to fall asleep, due to the increased body temperature as well as respiratory rates and heart rates. Give your body at least three hours of cool-down time before you go to bed.
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