Have you ever spent your break time sleeping? Or have you felt really
sleepy while you are listening to your lectures? A lot of students that I am
one of them would say yes especially on Mondays. Do you know why? Because we
love to spend our weekends as much as we can having fun. While we are saying
that we are taking care of our health, but we unfortunately are not, because we
are taking care of unimportant or luxury things. And we usually forget or ignore
what does the sleepless cause in our wellness or our life. Students do not pay
attention for their wellness especially in the most important part which is
sleeping.
First of all, we may think that our brains
and bodies are shut down as a computer while we are sleeping, but it is not so.
There are many things that going on them while we are slumbering. First, the
most important part of human beings is the brain. According to Wikipedia in
sleep section, our brains are active all the night. And they also say that
there are five different levels or storages of sleep for typical night's sleep
each one takes or spends 90 minutes to get to next level. The first four
storages are called quiet sleep or non – rapid eye movement (NREM). And the
last one which is the fifth one is called rapid eye movement (REM). From first
storage of sleep to the fourth one brain's waves become larger and slower then
when we are awake to make sleep deeper. Then in REM level they will be lager
and slower to start dreaming. Moreover the blood flow rises sharply is some
brain areas to processing memories and emotional experiences. Second, the less
important part of human beings which is the body is working all the night as
well. For example, when we go to bed at night, our bodies will start their
activities such as creating or keeping hormones level, repairing or making skin
cells, and getting the best woke of immune system. So to get all these process
well done, we need between seven to eight hours of nice sleep as the health scinentists
recommend.
Next, falling sleep is not that
thing most of student can do it easy. So there are some tips to have a good
night's sleep. Avoiding caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol is the great tip to
fall sleep easy. For instance, if we drank one of the dangerous triangle as I
called it, we would be awake all the night, get difficultly fall sleep, or wake
up early in morning. Secondly, setting a schedule will help to it without any
problems. For a good result we have to follow the schedule every day, so if we
go to bed for example at nine to ten clock, we must wake up at five to six in
the morning even on the weekends! I know that is hard for a lot of us, but we
will never get tired on Mondays. Third, doing exercise or working out makes
falling sleep easer. We really need to do exercise at least 20 to 30 minutes
daily not just for getting sleep easer, but it is important thing for our
wellness and life. So for this case will be better if we do it before five to
six hours of bed time to get its benefit. Lastly, relaxing before bed helps to
sleep fast. For instance, reading a book will lead us to sleep or taking a warm
bath will make us ready to sleep. Now we should try whatever we can do from
this list to make us fall sleep easy.
Students should reach some sleep benefits
to know that we sleeping well. First of all, storing enough energy for next day
and night. For example, if we have a good night's sleep, we will be active all
the time and could do a lot of actions such as studying, swimming, and dancing
at night. It will also improve our life quality. Moreover, keeping our heart
healthy is another kind of sleep benefits. Sleeping helps to reduce the stress
and inflammation levels which are usually effect heart disease and strokes. And
sleep can also keep cholesterol levels that causes in heart disease.
Finally,
improving our memory is one of the great benefits of sleep. For instance, our
brains will do better process new experiences and knowledge, and it will
increase our understanding. These are some of many benefits that the students
will get it from good night's sleep.
In short, getting some knowledge
about sleep such as what do our bodies do while we are sleeping? What we need
to have a good night's sleep? Or some benefits of good sleep. Will show the
importance of it which is a lot of students think is not that thing they need
to care about it. And as the Arabic idem says "One cent for avoiding
disease better than thousands for treating these disease." That means if
we do easy little things to be away of big problems, it will be better than
solve or find a solution for them.
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