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I downloaded the sleeping app on my smartphone from my AppStore on a Friday evening after my evening classes and set it right. The app monitors the user’s motions while sleeping by using the phone’s built-in accelerometer, a gadget that detects motion and direction. Tracking movement can determine the user’s specific sleep cycles and the best time to wake them up. This may be accomplished by watching the movement and identifying when they are in the lightest sleep phase (Volkovich 1305-1312). The app includes a snooze feature, but they recommend not using it– good luck with that. The app generates a graph of the user’s sleep cycles for the night. The app records sleeping and waking times and generate reports accessed under the Insights tab that charts the user’s sleep duration and efficiency, the amount of time spent in light in a deep sleep, and resting heart rate during sleep. Users will get a picture of their typical sleep patterns. The Insights tab also allows users to see their accumulated sleepover days and weeks.

The second thing I did was place it under my pillow on my bed after switching the lights off; my main aim was to observe my sleep pattern. It was exactly 9 PM, and I let off to bed; I experienced a lot of fantasy after going to bed with my friends and fantasy; this made me get out of bed and write a good night message for them; this took me around 30 minutes. I put my phone on silent mode to avoid late-night calls from friends; at around midnight, I still had not slept and decided to give up on it but did not stop my timer but forced myself to sleep. On the first day, I was the last to wake up at 10 AM even my two-year-old sister had woken up; this frustrated me little did I know I was suffering from Insomnia.

I repeated the same process on Saturday and Sunday, but I decided to do it during the day. I set my timer after taking lunch, and straight to my bedroom, I decided to take a siesta. It did not take less than ten minutes before I started sleeping so loud that my mum came to look after me but did not wake me up as I had told her that I wanted to observe my sleep habits. I slept for exactly three hours, twenty-five minutes and ten seconds. This is the best sleep I have ever had, so I was very relaxed and immediately took a shower after joining college. Some of the reasons that made me not sleep at night were hanging out with friends and not forgetting movies as the main reason.

I’ve noticed that lack of sleep at night may make you cranky the next day. And, in the long run, sleep deprivation may have harmful repercussions other than altering your morning mood. When you’re running on little sleep, you’re more likely to have trouble remembering and recalling information (Toscano-Hermoso). This is because sleep is essential for both learning and memory. It’s tough to concentrate and retain new information when you don’t get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation also implies that your brain does not have enough time to store memories for you to recall them later appropriately.

Another thing your brain does when sleeping is evaluated your feelings. This length of time is required for your mind to comprehend and respond appropriately (Aabid). When that time is cut short, you are more likely to have unpleasant emotional reactions and fewer pleasurable ones. As previously indicated, prolonged sleep deprivation can also raise the chance of having a mood illness. According to one large research, those who have Insomnia are five times more likely to develop depression, and they are also considerably more prone to develop anxiety or panic disorders.

Work cited

Aabid, Ali, et al. “Effects of different sleeping patterns on academic performance in medical school students.” Natural Science 2013 (2013).

Toscano-Hermoso, María Dolores, et al. “Influence of sleeping patterns in health and academic performance among university students.” International journal of environmental research and public health 17.8 (2020): 2760.Volkovich, Ella, et al. “Sleep patterns of co-sleeping and solitary sleeping infants and mothers: a longitudinal study.” Sleep medicine 16.11 (2015): 1305-1312.