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Do You Get Enough Sleep? Quiz
Adapted from How to Sleep Soundly Tonight, by Barbara L. Heller (Storey Books, 2001).
Sleep is the physiological function that helps nourish our mind, body, and soul, essential for good health and upbeat spirits. Better sleep gives you more energy, improves your mood, makes you less prone to accidents and less irritable, and increases your life span.
The National Commission on Sleep Disorders says, “America is seriously sleep deprived, with serious consequences.“ Lack of sleep decreases productivity, effectiveness, concentration, decision-making abilities, and physiological immunity. Are you getting enough sleep for optimum mind, body, and spirit wellness? Take this simple quiz and find out:
How many of these statements are TRUE for you?
1. I need to rely on an alarm clock to wake me up.
2. I often feel tired and foggy-headed.
3. I often doze off while watching TV or while sitting and reading.
4. I sometimes fall asleep in public places such as movie theaters or school classes.
5. I sometimes get drowsy in a car–either as a driver or as a passenger.
6. Fatigue sometimes interferes with my daily activities.
If you answered TRUE to any of these questions, you could use more and better-quality sleep. We recommend How to Sleep Soundly Tonight for some valuable tips for getting more and better sleep.
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add your comment »One word of caution that I must add to this is to consider how many hours you do actually get. I have worked with a naturopath for some time, eat healthy, live a healthy & balanced life yet could have answered true to these questions even given that I often had 15 hours of sleep a day. I was diagnosed a few months ago with narcolepsy and since going on meds live a normal life. If this is the case for any readers there is a quiz that is very similar to the one in this article to determine if that is the case if you go to any medical or sleep disorder site that deals with narcolepsy, it's symptoms, and treatment.
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In answered true to most of these questions, but I feel exhausted after 8 hours, 9, 10, 11, even 12.
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I am always in bed by 9:30 p.m. every night but that doesn't stop me from waking up 3 to 4 times and finely getting up at 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. Now with proper medication and diet my sleep patern has decreased to once getting up through the night. Yeah for me .
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Storm W has got the answer people! Correct diet, exercise and attitude (no TV news), makes a tremendous difference in quality of sleep.
I was having terrible insomnia along with other lovely menopausal symptoms. Acupuncture treatments, homeopathic remedies, clean diet, working out and losing weight has made a huge difference.
Except for the last two nights ... it's been too hot to sleep and this girl is feeling like a monster again! arrrggh!
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Storm W has got the answer people! Correct diet, exercise and attitude (no TV news), makes a tremendous difference in quality of sleep.
I was having terrible insomnia along with other lovely menopausal symptoms. Acupuncture treatments, homeopathic remedies, clean diet, working out and losing weight has made a huge difference.
Except for the last two nights ... it's been too hot to sleep and this girl is feeling like a monster again! arrrggh!
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I answered "FALSE" to all of them! Yay! I still think I could do with a bit more sleep though, because I don't like waking up in the mornings and feel that I would like to sleep in a little longer!
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What about natural 'night owls'. I can tell you that they are not compatible with 'morning larks'. Whilst I could always get up because I HAD to, I just long for long sleep ins - no matter what is going on.
It has been scientifically proven that night owls and morning larks are normal built in moods.
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I was a chronic insomniac, and often got less than 3 total hours of sleep (broken into tiny segments) a night. Surprisingly, the things that helped me turn that around didn't have much to do with sleep, per se. Changing my diet, cooking my own food, eating from locally available foods, increasing my activity level, and forgoing the 10/11pm news made a HUGE difference for me. I also go to bed and get up about the same time every day (within an hour on either side), and find that most of the problems I had with sleep miraculously disappeared.
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My name is Johan, male and have suffered with sleep disorders for more then 30 years. 2 years ago I was introduced to lifewave patches for sleep disorders and it was bingo.Look at http://www.lifewave.com/johdeEnterprise
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I recently discovered I am an insomniac (in recovery). I have a few tips, too, if you're interested in checking them out:
http://buzz.prevention.com/community/miss-nosipho/dont-sleep-on-warm-milk
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