#sleep challenge

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Ta da!!! 👊🏽 This is the most sleep I’ve gotten in months! Bedtime could’ve been better. But, I did turn OFF Dateline and saved the rest for today! This is what progress looks like. It ain’t pretty! But, it’s notable! 🙏🏽

Ok, I got the rest of a Dateline to watch before Michigan plays!

Gotta love Saturdays. ❤️

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seven day sleep challenge

hey everybody. so i’m taking an honors religion course this semester, which is part of my core curriculum. the professor has multiple extra-credit assignments available, like going to certain campus events and writing reflections. however, one that she does is particularly unique: the seven-day sleep challenge. the rules are as follows:

1. every day for seven days, get more than eight hours of sleep. 

2. keep a short journal every morning recording how you feel. 

that is all. 

the reason she offers this extra-credit, she says, is that students today are more overworked than they ever have been previously. we don’t realize how much of our performance depends on being rested – research shows that being consistently sleep-deprived can give you the same performance as someone who is drunk or stoned.

when my professor was in graduate school, she was taking Hebrew, a notoriously difficult language to learn. her class was at 8am every day and had daily graded homework. she had to leave her house at 6:30 to be there on time and get parking. so at some point, after long nights slogging through translations, that she was just going to sleep whenever she needed to sleep, whether or not her homework was finished. and miraculously, as she told us, her grade went up – despite the fact that sometimes she didn’t complete her homework. 

as for me – i’ve been feeling pretty sick lately; like immediately after i got back to campus i somehow got a cactus or something in my throat. So I definitely need more sleep, and I’m going to do this seven day sleep challenge to kick the semester off, especially as I have time to do it now before the curriculum really heats up. i would encourage y’all to do it as well! 

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Bulletproof 30-Day Sleep Challenge

Bulletproof 30-Day Sleep Challenge

Sleep better in the new year with the Bulletproof 30-Day Sleep Challenge. For the duration of the challenge, you’ll employ science-backed methods designed to help you sleep deeper, so you wake up refreshed.The Bulletproof 30-Day Sleep Challenge is laid out as a series of four steps. When implemented together, they’ll make you a champion at sleep, and as a result, a champion at life.  The Sleep…

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Students Who Meet 8 Hour Sleep Challenge Perform Better On Finals

Students given extra points if they met "The 8-hour Challenge", averaging eight hours of sleep for five nights during final exams week, did better than those who snubbed the incentive.

The research is in Teaching of Psychology. (full access paywall)

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Day 30

Today is 12/7/16, and the end of my 30-day challenge!

Last night was more of the same half-successful day I’ve been achieving. I met my goal of sleeping 7 hours, from 10:00 to 5:30, but did not fulfill all the secondary parts of my plan to make sure it was quality sleep. The bed was cluttered and I had no calming routine, though the lights were off and the temperature range correct. 

Today, I am anticipating a great deal of homework what with midterms coming up so quickly, as well as other testing next week in AP US History. I also have book club and a clarinet lesson tonight. 

All in all, I really have been putting in more of an effort to get 7 hours of sleep each night, but I have not always been successful or gone about it the right way. For example, I still struggle with homework procrastination and a calming routine even though I know they are important to deal with for the sake of good sleep. Furthermore, setting strict hours at the beginning of my project, 10:30 to 6:00 with no flexibility, really limited the success I could achieve until I altered that schedule to make it more realistic. 

I think I have learned a lot from this project about issues I need to improve upon for my sleep and, by extension, my health. Given 30 more days, I may be able to settle myself into a fully successful plan now that I know which pitfalls to look out for on the way. 

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Day 29

Today is 12/6/16.

Last night I did have some problems with homework procrastination, and decided a good solution would be to split up the load, doing some this morning. So far it has worked. I can concentrate on homework better when it’s in smaller doses, and that helps me get to sleep on time. Perhaps I should consider doing this more often when I have a daunting amount of homework or trouble focusing. 

I went to bed last night around 10:30 and got up at 6:00, times within my goal range. I had the lights off and a good temperature range. I did, however, have a cluttered bed and no calming routine.

Tonight I have quartet practice and clarinet choir, but I should be home before 6 and have plenty of time to get my homework done before bed.

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Day 28

Today is 12/5/16.

Unfortunately, OBDC didn’t leave me much time for homework this weekend except for yesterday, so I had quite a lot to do including an important essay. In all honesty, this was one of those occasions where not meeting my goal is okay. While I should always aim to get 7 hours, I will inevitably fail sometimes, and it is better to fail on account of working hard. 

I did not fulfill my goal hours because I was working on my essay. I slept from 11:30 to 5:30, six hours. The lights were off, the bed uncluttered, and the temperature range correct. I did not have a calming routine because I needed all available time to work.

Today I am quite busy after school. I have clarinet quartet practice and then glass blowing. While I don’t have an extraordinary amount off homework, I will have to work fast to get to bed on time.