Sleep Science
If you're a healthy adult this is how much sleep time you should be getting.
What is 7-9 hours?
TECH DOUBLE
This light created by screens, damages your sleep by preventing you to produce melatonin.
What is blue light?
True or False: Getting exposed to strong natural light in the morning helps you get awake.
What is True?
Before artificial lighting, peoples sleep was largely aligned with this cycle.
What is the day-night (light-dark) cycle?
Sleep strengthens connections in the brain, improving this ability.
What is learning?
True or False: Your whole body shuts off when you go to sleep.
What is False? (your body/brain is actually very awake but you don't feel it)
Being at this temperature or higher can damage your sleep.
What is warm?
Doing this 45 minutes before going to sleep helps you get a deeper sleep.
What is cool off?
Back in time before electricity people usually slept this amount of times every day.
What is Two times?
TECH DOUBLE
Name three diseases caused by sleep deprivation.
What is (heart attack, type 2 diabetes, obesity and weekend immunity)?
Your brain releases it when light levels are reduced.
What is Melatonin?
Having this reduces your REM stage sleep.
What is stress?
Little kids can use these to feel safe when going to sleep.
What is a stuffy (or a soft blanket)?
Back in time people usually went to sleep at this time.
What is 9:00pm?
True or False: Having more sleep makes you calmer and boosts your immunity.
What is True?
Sleep deprivation reduces this cognitive function by 20%, affecting your ability to remember new information.
What is Memory?
This can make you have bad dreams, and make you more alert when you should be trying to cool down.
What is sugar?
You should finish every workout at least this many hours before going to bed.
What is four hours?
TECH DOUBLE
This invention in the late 1800s significantly extended waking hours into the night.
What is the light bulb?
Name four things that happen when you get deep sleep.
What is (heart rate goes to lowest level,muscles relax, body repairs tissues, builds bone and vital growth hormones)?
The stage where you start experiencing dreams.
What is REM? (Rapid Eye Movement)
True or False: Having a messy room doesn't let you fall asleep.
What is True? (having a messy room overwhelmed your brain, not letting you sleep)
After this much time is when it's okay to get up and do something boring such as read a book.
What is 30 minutes?
Scientists once did experiments where people stayed awake for days. After a while, people started seeing or hearing things that weren't real what were they getting?
What are hallucinations?
Car accidents every year caused by sleep deprivation in total cost approximately this much.
What is 43-56 billion dollars?