Personal Narrative: Preparing My Sleep For 67 Hours

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This week I slept for 67 hours.Teenagers need about 8.5-9.5 hours on average. So as I was writing down my hours each day I was surprised I was making those hours.I used to stay up late and not get enough sleep. I am currently sleeping well. What was interfering with my sleep before was being on my phone all night, scrolling down my Instagram feed, Snapchat stories or on Netflix. I would watch episode after episode and would later notice it was 3 am! It was pretty bad but now I am forcing myself to only watch two episodes and then turning my phone off and get to bed. I would say that not getting enough sleep affects my daily life because I would be grumpy and tired all the time. My eyes would also hurt from the light of the phone screen the

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