Is 5 hours of sleep not enough?!


Question: I am 16 years old and a sophmore in highschool and i only get 5 out of the reccomended 8 hours of sleep is this unhealty please help?


Answers: I am 16 years old and a sophmore in highschool and i only get 5 out of the reccomended 8 hours of sleep is this unhealty please help?

I have spent a great deal of time doing personal research of how time spent sleeping affects you. I have experimented with every quantity (1,2,3...12,13,14) hours of sleep per night on a regular basis. Even having done this in my early adult years, being resilient towards a lack of sleep, it had many effects. It slows down your thought (makes you a bit dumber), makes you less happy in general, more irritable, sometimes depressed. It also greatly diminishes your attention time. You will also experience a constant state of fatigue--as in regardless of whether or not you are tired, your body (mainly chest area) will feel a bit crappy, as if its weighted down and slightly harder to breath. You might not notice this now, but get some more sleep for a week and go back to 5 hours a night for a week and youll see the difference. Not enough sleep will basically worsen all of your brain and motor functions in general. Lack of sleep over a long period of time can also make you more prone to sickness (tired immune system) and just sick from only a lack of sleep in general after long enough. It has been shown with rats that not sleeping at all for long enough can actually kill you. Sleep is important! Caffeine, amphetamines, and other stimulants (which I do not recommend! they are very dangerous) will reduce the actual feeling of tiredness and will increase attention time, but will usually do little to affect the other problems. I suggest getting homework done earlier and trying to get 8 hours of sleep a night. Trying to make it up on weekends is not very efficient. Also, oversleeping doesn't do any more good than say 9 or 10 hours, it just makes you more tired when you wake up. Try to get at least 8 hours, and if possible, 9 or 10 would be even better. Nothing can substitute good sleep. And it should all be at once, splitting up sleep diminishes the efficiency of the sleep.

it can be unhealthy, try going to bed earlier, you'll notice a difference

people can adapt to different sleeping habits.
i go to bed when i get home from school and i wake up at 10 pm and stay up until i get home from school the next day.

Everyone is different. But for a teenager, you should be getting almost 10 hrs of sleep, because you are using your mind & it's needs extra off time. When you get to 40, is when you don't need as much sleep. I used to take a nap when I got home from school (sometimes involuntary). Seemed to help out a lot!

You will feel the burn later on.

I used to sleep 4/5 hours and now I am incapable of sleeping less than eight.

Biologically speaking, you are doing a disservice to your brain.
During sleep, we retain and re-organize and file away all the knowledge and informative we took in the previous day. Not enough sleep would leave our brain scrambled in a sense.

Try and get more sleep!!!

Yeah, it can be hard to get to bed, but 5 hours of sleep isn't enough. If it's just one night a week, that's one thing, but getting 5 hours every day will wear down your body. You can get sick more easily. It's especially important to get your 8 hours since you're 16 and your body's still growing.

It is healthy or unhealthy as you feel.
for body 5 hours is enough.

5 hours is plenty. some say your body can function off 4 hours of sleep. and it doesn't have to be uninterrupted. as long u get 4

Everyone is different





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