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a project for a psychology class at sas. tying in sleeping disorders to an uber cool film.
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Sleep is the natural state of bodily rest. When you sleep, your body rests and restores its energy levels. Consistently good sleep helps you cope with stress, solve problems and recover from illness, and helps ensure long-term physical and mental well-being.
* Infants require about 16 hours a day
*Teenagers need about 9 hours on average
* Most adults need 7 to 8 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 5 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day
*Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual
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2) Set a Schedule – Go to bed at a set time each night and get up at the same time each morning. Disrupting this schedule may lead to insomnia. Avoid napping during the day. “Sleeping in” on weekends also makes it harder to wake up early on Monday morning because it re-sets your sleep cycles for a later awakening.
3) Exercise – Try to exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day. Daily exercise often helps people sleep, although a workout soon before bedtime may interfere with sleep. For maximum benefit, try to get your exercise about 5 to 6 hours before going to bed.
4) Avoid Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcohol – Avoid drinks that contain caffeine, which acts as a stimulant and keeps you awake. Sources of caffeine include coffee (100-200 mg), soft drinks (50-75 mg), non-herbal teas (50-75 mg), chocolate, diet drugs, and some pain relievers. Smokers tend to sleep very lightly and often wake up in the early morning due to nicotine withdrawal. Alcohol robs people of deep sleep and REM sleep and keeps them in the lighter stages of sleep.
5) Avoid Using Sedatives – While you might fall asleep, the complete restorative sleep cycle will be not realized. You might awaken feeling unrefreshed, groggy, or hungover. Once you stop taking the sedatives, you might suffer withdrawal symptoms which will further interfere with attainment of natural sleep.
6) Drink Milk – Milk contains a substance called tryptophan. The body uses tryptophan to make serotonin, a chemical in the brain. Serotonin helps control sleep patterns, appetite, pain, and other functions. Milk does not contain enough tryptophan to change sleep patterns, but drinking a glass of milk before bed may help you relax.
7) Avoid Large Meals / Excessive Fluids – This might cause you to awaken due digestion problems or urination.
Relax before Bed – A warm bath, reading, or another relaxing routine (deep breathing, yoga, meditation) can make it easier to fall sleep. You can train yourself to associate certain restful activities with sleep and make them part of your bedtime ritual.
9) Don’t Lie in Bed Awake – If you can’t get to sleep, don’t just lie in bed. Do something else, like reading, watching television, or listening to music, until you feel tired. The anxiety of being unable to fall asleep can actually contribute to insomnia. Don’t expose yourself to content that is prone to increase anxiety – like the news.
10) Create a Sanctuary – Make sure your bedroom is dark and quiet. Use eye shades or earplugs if needed. Maintain a comfortable temperature in the bedroom. Extreme temperatures may disrupt sleep or prevent you from falling asleep.
11) Minimize Snoring – Sleep on your side to minimize snoring and breathing problems.
12) Sleep until Sunlight – If possible, wake up with the sun, or use very bright lights in the morning. Sunlight helps the body’s internal biological clock reset itself each day. Sleep experts recommend exposure to an hour of morning sunlight for people having problems falling asleep.
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Initially, I did this video for my Psychology class when we went over states of consciousness…This was the part on sleeping disorders…Hope you’ll be slightly entertained by it…
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Did you know that snoring is the biggest cause for insomnia in the united states? Well if you have ever had to sleep next to a person snoring, you cant be too surprised by this information. In fact total of 23% of couples suffer from this unfortunate condition and that is a big number let me tell you. This article will reveal you the causes of snoring and give some tips on how you could stop snoring and so end the agony.
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Many people doesnt know that snoring is always caused by a some sort of a blockage in the breathing passage. With a normal healthy person there shouldnt be anything blocking the air from flowing freely, but with people suffering from snoring there is. This could be because of many various reasons. Some of these reasons are things like a weak throat that closes down when person goes to sleep.
Another common reason is a weak tongue, that often falls in to the throat and so blocks the airflow passage.The tongue is just another muscle in human body and if that muscle is weak, then it is more likely to drop into the throat and cause snoring. So what can you do about it?
Now Im sure you are all asking that how can you stop snoring? You may have seen ads on all kinds of products that promises to make you stop snoring just like that. All these products have one thing in common and that is that they do not work too well. Sure, some people claim to have gotten some results, but I personally wouldnt put my money on it. The only way to stop snoring for good is 100% natural.
There are several exercises that can help you to stop snoring. The key is to work out your breathing passage so that the air can flow freely. For example strengthening your tongue prevents it from falling to your throat while sleeping and loosening up your jaw muscles can stop it from pressing on the breathing passage. You would be amazed how much easier it is to breathe after you have trained your jaw muscles. Many of the exercises are much like the ones that singers do, and let me tell you, professional singers do not snore.
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http://www.howtogetagoodnightssleep.com/
Well no surprise it is 2.00am again and I am lying here wide awake just like every nights this week well actually more like month. Sleep is important as this is when your body repairs damage and rejuv
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Twenty-five percent of Americans suffer from 
Sleep is not just beneficial — it is important for survival. Sleep enables the mind and the body to function normally. But getting enough sleep is a difficult problem for many people. In part two of this interview with Ellen Beth Levitt, sleep expert Dr. Steven Scharf talks about the following topics:
Sleep hygiene
Definition of insomnia
Causes of insomnia
When to see a sleep specialist
Insomnia treatments
Sleeping pills
Cognitive therapy
Melatonin
About the Expert:
Dr. Steven Scharf, a pulmonary specialist and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Scharf is also a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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Related Links:
Sleep and Insomnia (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNBPZLdP2U
Dr. Steven Scharf
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/steven_m_scharf.html
UM Sleep Disorders Center
http://www.umm.edu/sleep/
Patient Success Stories
http://www.umm.edu/sleep/success_stories.htm
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Methodist Mansfield Hospital in Dallas, Texas helps clients identify the causes of their insomnia and find solutions to the underlying problems that keep them up at night.
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This video discusses the topic of snoring and other related sleep disorders. Subjects covered in this article include the basic facts, physiology, potential causes and remedies to sleep disturbances such as snoring and OSA (obstructive sleep apnea).
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Read more at http://www.health.com/sleep. When sleep problems becomes chronic, it can morph into psychophysiological insomnia: As you prepare for bed, you begin to get nervous about sleeping. In this video, David Schulman, MD, director of the Emory Sleep Disorders Laboratory in Atlanta, explains how the body reacts to the expectation of insomnia—and what simple changes you can make to help break the cycle.
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