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Is This Obsessive About Sleep?

It seems that some people are taking advantage of the latest advances in sleep technology to analyse their own sleep patterns and perhaps in doing so are becoming a little obsessive about it. I read of one blogger in particular who had a Zeo for Christmas and is using it on his blog to track a number of variables such as the benefits of using melatonin, lucid dreaming, and any effects of vitamin D on sleep. “On a good day, the blogger was happy with the quality of data: You can see an impressively regular sleep cycle, cycling between REM and light sleep. What’s disturbing is the relative lack of deep sleep – down 4–5% (and there wasn’t a lot to begin with). I suspect that the lack of deep sleep indicates I wasn’t sleeping very well, but not badly enough to wake up, and this is probably due either to light from the Zeo itself or my lack of regular blankets and use of a sleeping bag. But the awakenings around 4–6 AM and on other days has made me suspicious that one of the cats is bothering me around here and I’m just forgetting it as I fall …Read the Rest

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Are School Kids Getting Enough Sleep?

As a parent of a school aged child myself I often wonder if my child is getting enough sleep, especially when she can be tetchy and hard to wake up in a morning. You wouldn’t believe this was the same child who was bright and breezy after ten thirty last night. In many respects I feel sorry for school children today. For starters, they have more homework than I had, and they just seem to work harder than I remember I needed to when I was school age. I came across a study which says that children may not be getting enough sleep. Like I said, I might agree with regards to my daughter. Apparently elementary school-age kids need 10 to 11 hours of sleep and kids aged 10 to 17 need 8.5 to 9.25 hours daily. But how much sleep are children actually getting? “Kid’s Health says children ages 5 to 12 get an average of 9.5 hours of sleep at night. A 2006 survey from the National Sleep Foundation found kids ages 11 to 17 were getting less than eight hours per night. The Pediatrics study backed up that information; whatever the current recommended amount was per year, …Read the Rest

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Falling Asleep While Driving

The Dangers Of Falling Asleep While Driving Falling asleep while driving is massively dangerous. Not only do you risk killing yourself but, and this is more likely, you risk killing someone else, leaving a lifelong scar in someone else’s life, or lives, and a guilty conscious that will plague you for the remainder of your life. Do you still think it’s worth driving while too tired? I hope the answer is no. I speak from first hand experience with this problem, as a friend I know fell asleep while driving, and this happened about ten years ago. He was lucky not to be killed when his car came off the road. Unfortunately, in accidents involving tiredness and fatigue, people normally die, and it tends to be either innocent pedestrians or other road users that get killed rather than the driver. All drivers therefore have a responsibility, not just to ourselves, but to other people, not to drive when we know we are in danger of falling asleep at the wheel. Sometimes we get an early warning when the head starts to nod and we realise that sleep is imminent. Heed that warning. There really is no excuse. Up and down …Read the Rest