Diana Kyle's post about the sleep program reminded me of a question
a student posed the other day. It was in my health ed class, and we were
covering stress, so I began to pontificate about the importance of sleep and
understanding the nature of your sleep.
Two questions were thrown out:
One had to do with the snooze alarm, which I recommended not using. A
student asked "Well, what if I hit the snooze and go back into deep sleep?
Won't that be beneficial?"
The next one was: "If we go through five stages of sleep, and it's so hard to
wake up during the latter stages, then how come a simple noise in the
morning wakes me up so easily. What if I'm in stage 4. Aren't I supposed to
be in deep sleep?"
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Guinee, Ph.D.
Director of Training & Adjunct Professor
President, Arkansas College Counselor Association
University of Central Arkansas Counseling Center
313 Bernard Hall Conway, AR 72035 USA
(501) 450-3138 (office) (501) 450-3248 (fax)
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things --
to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently
motivated to reach challenging goals."
-- Edmund Hillary, New Zealander mountaineer and explorer
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