The sleep
The sleep
Hi friends, have you ever noticed that some mornings you wake up in good shape, even if you have been sleeping later than usual and the opposite also, you have a lot of trouble waking up and you still feeling sleepy even after a few minutes while you were sleeping a little earlier than usual?
Your status at sunrise depends on several factors, the most important of which are sleep cycles. Indeed, the fact of feeling still asleep after getting up is due to the fact that you have been awakened in the middle of a sleep cycle, on the contrary, if you are in top form when your alarm clock rings, it simply means that he has sounded right at the right moment, that is to say in two cycles of sleep where at this moment, you are in a phase of semi-sleep.
Explanation
Sleep is composed of four phases:
The sleep phase: it lasts about 20 minutes.
Light sleep: this is the beginning of physical and intellectual recovery. During this phase, one is still likely to be woken up easily at the slightest noise or light.
Deep sleep: the moment when the sleeper becomes insensitive to external factors. His immune defenses are strengthened and information accumulated throughout the day is anchored in his memory.
Paradoxical sleep: this is the phase where dreams are the most numerous. At the physical level, the body loses all its muscle tone and our eyes make fast movements. These movements are called REM, Rapid Eye Movement.
These four phases last about 90 minutes. During a night's sleep, four to six cycles can succeed each other by being interrupted by half-awake phases.
If the alarm rings in the middle of one of these cycles, you wake up tired. If you want to wake up in full form, it is essential that the alarm rings between two phases of deep sleep.
In summary, here is how to proceed: for an adult, it is expected that more or less five complete cycles of sleep to recover from fatigue. So if we have to get up for example at 6:00 am and we need to sleep at 7:30. In addition, it takes about 15 minutes to fall asleep, the ideal bedtime will be 21:15. If we can get up a little later at 07:00, we must add 30 minutes to our calculation and so we must go to bed at 21:45.
If it seems too complicated and tiring to do all this cacul, you can encode your data on sites designed specifically for this kind of calculation.
Here is one : https://sleep-calculator.com/
Very interesting article! It teaches sleep really succinctly and easily. Thank you for sharing it!
I agree that it is important to go with the flow of your own body's natural circadian rhythm.
I have recently been truly examining what it is that causes a good night of sleep versus a bad one and a lot of this information really makes sense. I am fascinated with the recovery benefits that sleep provides for the body. Thank you for sharing this information and keep it up!
Thanks for sharing this! I checked out that link and it told me to go to sleep at 3:30 A.M. to wake up at 9:30 A.M. which is actually pretty close to my real schedule! Gonna try it out tonight!
Let me know how that works for you, would really like to hear your results!
Yip! This works and I have found this also very useful. I have been using this method for the last 2 months and I wake up more relaxed. Reason I am using this is because I need to study till late in the evening and then when I wake up in the morning, I feel soooo tired. With this method of waking up the right time, it will make you feel much more refreshed when waking up. You are more alert and actually remember things better. I am using sleep cycle for iPhone. Try it steemiters, you will be surprised and you can even see your sleeping cycle if you were in deep sleep or not and if you were rolling around or snoring.
Interesting, thank you 😊
9:45pm to 7am? Thats 9 hours of sleep for and an adult.
Isn't that a little too much.
6-7 hours should be ideal for healthy and successful adult life.
But I have to say that I enjoyed reading this , learnt about Random Eye movement.
Think I'm slightly smarter than what I was 5 mins back.
Thank you:)
Yes indeed 9h that's a lot although it can do good from time to time. You can count fewer sleep cycles, the important ones and calculate not to cut the last one.
this topic is very urgent for me, I had a very recent question about sleep and then you posted a post, a superb coincidence :) thanks to all very well written, now we know how much to go to bed properly and how to get enough sleep. And most important of what sosotoit our dream. Excellent post, I advise everyone to read;)
My life is full of coicidence ;o) It's a pleasure !
Thank you very much for this. An answer to a question I did not know I had for over a decade.
Good night friend
