As I'm feeling sleep deprived at this moment due to a busy week...I thought we could all enjoy some sleeping facts. The sentences bolded are ones that I feel I can relate to at this time in my life...sadly.
-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.
- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.
- A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year- Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.
- Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.
- As a group, 18 to 24 year-olds deprived of sleep suffer more from impaired performance than older adults.
- Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet. (Thank you blogger.com at 1:21am...study break).
Thanks to The National Sleep Research Project for their facts: http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm
2 comments:
According to your last highlighted point they've got school all wrong! We should work while we can get lots of sleep, then go to school and pull all-nighters when we're old and it doesn't hurt us as much :)
I can't pull all-nighters, and I'm definitely in need of lots of sleep. I guess that means I'm still young! Or maybe I'm just so tired, that my logic isn't working correctly. Hmmm....could be.
Here's the stresses that have made me tired of teaching this week: Monday, talk with three grade 10 girls who were being nasty to a fellow student; get three blank faces and little response from three girls. Tuesday, have a run-in with a student with serious anger issues; deal with disrespect and a call to parent. Wednesday, put out a small fire in the art room when really spacey student leaves kleenex too close to open flame!
Thank goodness there's only two days left until spring break. Still want to be a teacher, Jen?
Post a Comment