This week, I continue to learn more about sleep during the learning challenge. I was not able to complete this last week because I was slightly sick, and funny enough, I ended up sleeping 14-17 hours a day because of how tired I was. In order to learn more about sleep, this week I read: 10 Proven Ways Teachers Can Improve Their Sleep by Sarah Marsh.
The article delves into some interesting details about sleep. Some of them are more obvious, such as not keeping lights on before one goes to bed and not drinking caffeine too often before bed, but there are also more subtle ones such as consistency in bed times and the optimal room temperature of 65 F. I personally learned more about the finer details this week, one interesting one was exercising in the morning as opposed to the night.
There are interesting implications to all of these, and I'm considering trying as many as I can. One thing that would be interesting is how ingestion of melatonin affects sleep. Many of the people I know buy melatonin capsules, and will take one before going to bed as it can often help, but I wonder if it makes your body more immune to natural melatonin, and whether or not that makes it harder to sleep.
The article delves into some interesting details about sleep. Some of them are more obvious, such as not keeping lights on before one goes to bed and not drinking caffeine too often before bed, but there are also more subtle ones such as consistency in bed times and the optimal room temperature of 65 F. I personally learned more about the finer details this week, one interesting one was exercising in the morning as opposed to the night.
There are interesting implications to all of these, and I'm considering trying as many as I can. One thing that would be interesting is how ingestion of melatonin affects sleep. Many of the people I know buy melatonin capsules, and will take one before going to bed as it can often help, but I wonder if it makes your body more immune to natural melatonin, and whether or not that makes it harder to sleep.
Melatonin is a drug released by the body to signal that it is time to rest. Source: Wikipedia
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