Try to get 7-9 hours of sleep per night
Getting enough sleep
not only contributes to how you feel and perform the next day, but also has a
huge impact on the overall quality of your life. Sacrificing sleep means you
are sacrificing your chance to live up to your fullest academic and creative
potential.
Sleep is essential
for good health, mental and emotional functioning, and safety. Research
indicates that sleep loss impairs your ability to perform tasks involving
memory, learning, and logical reasoning, which may contribute to unfulfilled
potential at university and strained relationships. Insufficient sleep can also
be extremely dangerous, leading to serious or even fatal accidents.
It should take you
fewer than 30 minutes to fall asleep, and you should wake up feeling refreshed.
Stress is the most common cause of insomnia. Alcohol may accelerate falling asleep, but it
also disrupts normal sleep patterns and suppresses restful REM sleep, even when
the alcohol has been eliminated from your body. Alcohol also makes it difficult
to wake up in the morning, even if consumed in moderate amounts.
If you have sleep
problems that have lasted a week or more, contact Cindy.
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