Sleep Basics & How They Affect You [Infographic]

When you are tired, you usually try to get a few minutes of sleep, right? Some people are like clockwork and they sleep at the same time every day, while other people struggle more to get in sync with their sleep. Some people have too much work to do in order to sleep when they really feel like they should. Whatever the reason is, it’s important to understand that sleep is the very essence of life itself. During sleep, our cells repair themselves and things are reset in our body that just won’t reset if we stay awake. It’s how the body works. Sleep is one of the most vital parts of being healthy, and I am sure everyone has felt the stress after a night of little or no sleep. That is why I have looked a little bit further into the sleep basics, and what they really do for us. Now we can both understand the sleep basics a little bit better.

There are quite a few serious effects of not getting enough sleep. Not only will it affect you mentally, but your body and immune system can become less effective causing you to attract serious illnesses. So when we look at the sleep basics for a second, we can easily understand that without sleep, our bodies and minds won’t function right. Their conscious connection will cease, and we become close to walking zombies when that happens.

If you’ve had trouble sleeping before, just know that putting yourself in a sleepy state doesn’t have to be hard to do. You just have to know what needs to be done in order to do that. It’s interesting to see that so many people have trouble sleeping, which is usually due to stress factors that they keep thinking about when laying in bed trying to sleep. A good thing to do is to take a bath and relax a while before actually going to bed. The body will adjust and become drowsy, which will help you fall asleep once you’re in bed trying to get some shuteye.

One good piece of advice that I really like, and one that I have felt works for me, is that if you are in bed for more than 20 minutes and still haven’t fallen asleep, get up and do something until you are actually sleepy. That will help you quite a bit, and you won’t feel sleepy (even though you’ve gotten some sleep) just because you woke up during the wrong sleep stage. Sleep is more complicated than you can imagine. You could study it for years and still not understand some parts of it. All you really need to remember is that there are certain things you just shouldn’t do before going to bed since they will keep you from getting a proper night of good sleep. Sleep is important, don’t exclude it because it doesn’t fit into your schedule. You will get a lot more done during your day if you keep a steady sleep cycle than if you constantly keep pushing the sleep basics back and instead do something else. The sleep basics are simple, and they are there to help you feel alert and healthy.

This sleep basics infographic is brought to us by Tasty Placement and should give us the necessary building blocks to setup our sleep cycle just like it’s supposed to be.