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Why do Most Elder Couples Sleep Separately?
1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung October 10th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Snoring.
The older you get, the more chances you would find sleeping separately a possibility. In fact it is a truth since problems when sleeping together such as snoring may make one of the partners more or less irritated and uncomfortable when sleep time comes.
Such an issue stems from the fact that in the course of getting older, some health-related concerns such as snoring becomes evident for sleep deprivation issues. Hence for people who may want to put more concern on their health as they grow older, it could very well cover areas such as snoring and overall health as well.
Read more: The trouble with sharing beds
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Sleeping when the TV is on
0 Comments Published by Lilian May 28th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, Sleep Disorders.
I admit I’m one of those people who need to keep the television on so that I can go to sleep. I turn the volume down; never mind if I don’t hear anything while my eyes are glued to the screen. The glare is what keeps me drowsy. And like clockwork at some point, I will eventually find myself closing my eyes and dozing off to dream land. When someone tries to turn the TV off, I instantly wake up, as if my body is connected to the TV’s power source.
Are you one of those people like me? Do you prefer sleeping with the TV on? I guess that for older people, this habit is already hard to break. It’s the younger sets we should be wary of developing this.
Television viewing at bedtime, and overall heavy television viewing, caused children to resist going to bed, to have trouble falling asleep, and to sleep less than the recommended eight hours. TV watching habits, such as falling asleep in front of the television, seemed to cause sleep disturbances in 25 percent of children with behavioral sleep disorders.
“Television may serve to displace sleep time, thus shortening sleep duration to unacceptable limits,” stated the report. “The time spent by the child in television viewing may substitute for other less sedentary and/or less passive activities (like playing outside, engaging in sports activities), resulting in poor-quality sleep.”
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Sleeping Disorders called Sleep Apnoea
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 13th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders.Many of us tend are not aware that while we are sleeping. Among this is this common sleep disorder we hear as sleep apnoea. For the benefit of the people who are unaware of what sleep apnoea is, it is a sleeping disorder caused by abnormalities in breathing while a person is in this meditative stage.
We all tend to overlook this part of our everyday living. Usually, sleep disorders can be attributed to various reasons. Some of them can be traced towards stress, while others coming from hereditary reasons.
As explained by Wikipedia:
Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, “without breath”), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep. The standard definition of any apneic event includes a minimum 10 second interval between breaths, with either a neurological arousal (3-second or greater shift in EEG frequency, measured at C3, C4, O1, or O2), or a blood oxygen desaturation of 3-4 percent or greater, or both arousal and desaturation. Sleep apnea is diagnosed with an overnight sleep test called polysomnogram.
Clinically significant levels of sleep apnea are defined as 5 events of any type or greater per hour of sleep time (from the polysomnogram). There are two distinct forms of sleep apnea: Central and Obstructive. Breathing is interrupted by the lack of effort in Central Sleep Apnea; in Obstructive Sleep Apnea, breathing is interrupted by a physical block to airflow despite effort. In Mixed Sleep Apnea, there is a transition from central to obstructive features during the events themselves.
Regardless of type, the individual with sleep apnea is rarely aware of having difficulty breathing, even upon awakening. Sleep apnea is recognized as a problem by others witnessing the individual during episodes or is suspected because of its effects on the body (sequelae). Symptoms may be present for years, even decades without identification, during which time the sufferer may become conditioned to the daytime sleepiness and fatigue associated with significant levels of sleep disturbance. The definitive diagnosis of sleep apnea is made by polysomnography. – Sleep Apnea
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Polyphasic Sleep
0 Comments Published by Max March 6th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology.
What is polyphasic sleep? Well, according to Wikipedia,
Polyphasic sleep is a sleep pattern intended to reduce sleep time to 2–5 hours daily. This is achieved by spreading out sleep into short naps of around 20–45 minutes throughout the day.
Facinating, isn’t it? Here’s a guy who’s trying it right now:
I’m starting this polyphasic sleep schedule today, so last night was my last night of “normal” sleep for a while. I still got up at 5am this morning, and then I’ll begin doing the naps every 4 hours starting this afternoon. I’ll use a countdown timer alarm set for 30 minutes, so I won’t oversleep. I’ve decided that my sleep times will be 1am, 5am, 9am, 1pm, 5pm, and 9pm. I aim to continue at least until Halloween… or death, whichever comes first. If it seems to be going well and I retain basic functionality, then I’ll decide whether I want to continue with it.
Remember, if you have an irregular schedule or work on and off, this polyphasic sleep might just do the trick for your sleeping.
Check out Uberman’s sleep schedule also, which seems to be a type of polyphasic sleep.
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