Going to the bed early is always the best way to get a great nights sleep. There are 5 other ways to help you reach that goal to waking up with a full nights rest of sleep. The first simple one is put all phones and gadgets away from you or put it on silent. This method is a trick to the brain so it can just focus on getting to bed. It lets your brain know that when your in bed its a time to sleep not be on the phone. The second tip is always make sure its cool in the room. When it is hot in the room its harder for you to go to sleep and you will constantly wake up during the middle of the night. Almost 50 percent of people lose at least three hours of sleep because of there partners snoring or tossing and turning. Philip Gehrman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia says buy a new big and stable mattress so you cant here the tossing and turning.
If your going to sleep you should try to sleep on your side at all times. No matter if your with your partner or by yourself its the smartest way. Sleeping on your side every night actually lowers stress levels. Another important way to sleep is getting old clocks and not digital. It is proven that a digital clocks keep you from going to sleep because the light of the clock is so bright and you just stair at it during the night. Also an old clock as no light and you cant tell what time it is before you go to bed. Well there is five easy ways to get a better night sleep every night. I tried some of these sleeping tips and they really do work!
Reference: http://www.forbes.com/health/2005/09/06/insomnia-executivehealth-lifestyle-cx_sy_0907feat_ls.html
5 comments:
Good topic, being college students we always don't get are recommended 8 hours of sleep, so it's important to make those hours count.
Nice job. I love to sleep and getting the appropriate amount of hours is key. The roommate snoring thing I can totally relate to.
Great blog CJ! This is always an important topic matter especially being college students. I've heard of some of those ways to help before the phone one is very important! so many people get text messages in the middle of the night and never learn! I'll try these out myself, I have a couple of friends with trouble sleeping i'll pass them on.
Good topic to talk about, and with those 5 easy tips people should be able to get more sleep. It’s nice to know that sleeping on your side all the time can lower stress levels. And I think it’s true about the whole digital clock, I know that nights that I can’t sleep I will stare at the clock and say to myself well at least I can still get this many hours of sleep, but then an hour later I am still staring and saying the same thing. Sometimes its better not to know what time it is.
I have the hardest time falling asleep at night and I think out of the five the article recommended I currently do none of them. I need to put my phone on silent at night because I think that that is the worst one and not just for me. The room being cool suggestion is probably hard for a lot of college students because I know in my room we have five fans going and the windows open and it is still hot in the room. These were great suggestions.
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