Today I decided to write about my quality/amount of sleep I received. I climbed into bed around 10:30pm, but considering I have recently been feeling sick, my cough kept disrupting my ability to relax. I, like any college student would, grabbed my phone and scrolled through my social media newsfeed. Of course I now know this is actually bad in preparing my brain for sleep. I didn't actually fall asleep until 11 and when I did, 30 minutes later, my roommate trudged in and turned on the lights, which woke me up again. I fell back asleep around 11:30 and didn't wake up until 8:30. I don't recall any dreams, but my roommate said I talked in my sleep a few times.
I hope you start feeling better soon!
ReplyDeleteI have read that if a person scrolls through social media, they are less likely to fall asleep as quickly as a person who goes directly to bed. It re-engages your mind to the point in which one is so consumed consciously or unconsciously in what they have just seen that they can not focus on calming down, but get more excited. The social media may be why you talked in your sleep. Maybe you were asking yourself what Miley Cyrus was wearing at this award show, because I think we all were!
ReplyDeleteI have also heard that people have a harder time falling asleep after playing on their phone before time to go to sleep. The light from your screen tricks your brain into thinking it is still daytime and tries to continue to be actively engaged in what you are doing. Causing you to not be as sleepy, try going to bed without your phone and see if you can go to sleep faster, and thus improve your quality of sleep.
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