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.
We are recommended to sleep at least seven hours to eight hours each and every night. Our bodies require this amount of rest in order to do their jobs properly. Having said that it is not recommended that you sleep too much either as statistics show that people who oversleep tend to die earlier as well as end up with weight problems.
It is also not a good idea to be sleep deprived throughout the working week and try to recharge your body with oversleeping during the weekends. Our bodies just don’t work that way. Studies have shown that people who skimped on sleep for several weeks in this manner get progressively worse up in attention tests despite the fact that they have had regular 10 hour-long sleep-ins.
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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