Written by P. A. Owens on September 13, 2018
Sleep Journal
Problem:
What is my general sleep cycle?
Hypothesis:
I tend to wake up at night only if I am too hot or cold or have to use the
restroom, and typically other than that I will sleep through the night
entirely. I typically have very few dreams if any.
Experiment:
Keep a sleep journal over the course of four days and record what is observed.
Data:
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September 9,
2018
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In bed at: 10:50pm
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Fell asleep: 2:25am
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I slept through the entire night, probably because I
went to sleep so late. For some reason I could not fall asleep easily that
night at all, hence the 2:25am time frame.
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I woke up for school at 9:00am; I stayed in bed for
about 20 minutes. I am not at all a morning person and I always need a little
time to wake up and become my normal, more assertive self.
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I remained drowsy until about 1:00pm, which was about
20 minutes after my history lecture was concluded.
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September 10,
2018
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In bed at: 11:00pm
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Fell asleep: 12:15am
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I woke up one time, at 4:20am, that night. Due to
being hot and even sweating slightly. I was hot because I wore a hoodie to
bed and forgot to take it off before falling asleep. I took off my hoodie,
slept with the covers off, and went back to sleep within 15 minutes.
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Woke up again at 8:00am, went back to sleep, because
I knew I didn’t have any classes that day due to the hurricane, until 9:40am
and got up at 10:00am.
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September 11,
2018
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After playing hide and seek in the dark, outside with
a few of my siblings, I went to bed at 10:45pm
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Fell asleep: 12:00am
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I fell asleep with my hoodie on again, so at 5:20am,
I woke up hot and slightly sweaty and took of the hoodie. After taking the
hoodie off, I went right back to sleep.
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Woke up: 8:25am, stayed in bed to wake up all the way
until 8:45am. Again I didn’t have any classes that day so I could sleep in a
little bit.
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September 12, 2018
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After playing the boardgame Clue, and winning by complete chance, I was in
bed by 10:50pm.
After watching a few YouTube videos, I got super sleepy
and fell asleep around 11:50pm.
I slept through the entire night with no interruptions and
woke up the next morning at 9am. I got out of bed around 9:15am.
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Conclusion:
My hypothesis was correct according to the fact that I tend to wake up if I am
too hot or cold, and that other than that I typically sleep through the night
without any interruptions and that dreams are very rare for me.
Observations: One
thing that really stood out to me is that I woke up 2 nights due to being too
hot while wearing my hoodie to sleep. Also the fact that I tend to wake up
around the same time every morning. It must be that my circadian rhythm over
time has become to wake up at those times every morning. I’ve always found it interesting
that this happens and was curious as to why it happens. Now I have an idea as
an explanation for it. I have also noticed that I typically am asleep around
the same times every night, with the exception of the first night of course, I
don’t know what was happening that day. The fact that I had no dreams, that I
remember, was also quite interesting to me. I am quite curious if I never got
into a deep enough sleep each night, e.i. REM sleep. “REM sleep is a relatively
psychological active type of sleep when most of a person’s dreams take place,
whereas NREM sleep spans from lighter stages to a much deeper, more restful
kind of sleep.” (Ciccarelli & White, 2017) So perhaps I am rarely in the REM
stage of sleep and that is why I rarely have any dreams.
Citations:
Ciccarelli, Saundra K., & J. Noland
White. Psychology (REVEL with
e-text/access code), 5th Edition. Person
2017. ISBN: 978-0134715305
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