I found that any amount of sleep deprivation will diminish mental performance. A professor form the University of Minnesota Medical School said that one complete night of sleep deprivation is as impairing in simulated driving tests as a legally intoxicating blood-alcohol level. I also found out that people who regularly do not get enough sleep are increasing their chances of developing diabetes and high blood pressure. Over thinking can also cause you to stress and affect your sleep. If you find yourself still thinking about things and trying to solve problems at the end of the day that is not good. This will add even more stress before you sleep and you won't be able to get enough rest. You should take everything off of your mind before you go to bed. At night, stress has a stronger impact, overriding your ability to sleep or preventing you from staying asleep so you wake in the middle of the night, says Thomas Roth, PhD, director of the sleep center at the Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit. You'll spend more time in the lighter stages of sleep rather than in deeper slow-wave and REM sleep, which leaves you vulnerable to waking in the middle of the night,explains Barry Krakow, MD, medical director of the Maimonides Sleep Arts and Sciences, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and author of Sound Sleep, Sound Mind.http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/health/stress-affects-sleep This was very interesting to me because I have problems sleeping often. I'm going to try and stop stressing because I believe that this is the main factor in my life that effects my sleep.
Sources:http://stress.about.com/od/unhealthybehaviors/a/stress_sleep.htm
http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/sleep.html
Angel Morrisey
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