Sleep Essay: How Does Sleep Affect People?

How does sleep affect people?

Sleeping takes up about a third of your life, but not getting enough sleep can be risk taking. Lack of sleep reduces our alertness, impairs our judgment, and affects our moods. Down below will tell you all the things about sleep, like how it affects your mood, your healthy body, and even the people around you. I bet you didn’t think too much sleep could be bad for you, but it can but also lack of sleep can be bad for you to.

According to Renee Miller, children need their sleep, they may not show it as much as adults do, but it’s important that kids get there sleep at night and during the day. Tired children tend to get her hurt more often than kids with more sleep. When suffering from lack of sleep kids may act like they have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Children get very whiney, bossy, or moody, it may also cause kids to lose focus easily. When kids only get 8-9 hours of sleep are more likely to end up in the ER. AS Renee Miller says kids really need the right amount of sleep a day, but too much sleep could be bad for the little ones body.

Reut Gruber thinks that having less asleep can affect your life big time, some ways are by not concentrating in school or maybe when you are driving your car home from school. Sleep helps our health, memory, and academic potential, without sleep you probably wouldn’t get very good grades in school and be very grumpy to your friends. Yawning and drowsiness are not the only signs of sleepiness. Sleepiness is shown in lots of way most people show it by not being very alert or staring off into space. Caffeine can help keep small children or even adults functioning during the day. Soda, tea, coffee, and chocolate milk is what I would use if I was...

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...y friends as you did when you got a good night’s rest.

I tested my topic by going around and asking 10 kids some survey questions like, “How they made up their lack of sleep more at night?”, during the day, or in the morning. Most of the kids either sleep more at night or sleep during the day to make up their sleep. Another question I asked then was “Dose lack of sleep affect then?” More people marked sometimes, other than yes if affected them or no it didn’t affect them. More people checked no on “Dose lack of sleep affect your appetite?”, and very few check sometimes. “Do you think too much sleep is bad for you?” Believe it or not, but more people thought that if could never be too bad for you. The kids that filled out the survey most of them usually got 5-8 hours of sleep on school nights. The kids that filled this survey out were all in the age range of 14-16.