What are your Sleeping Mistakes?

Drinking or having a nightcap
Alcohol can help you fall asleep, but it also affects how you sleep. When you go to bed tipsy or drunk, you can have slower sleep patterns, disrupting your circadian rhythm ­— which can block your REM sleep, cause aggressive breathing, and have your sleep interrupted by the need to go to the bathroom. Overall leading you to have an
unrestful slumber.

Being negative
Being stressed, thinking about what happened during the day or planning the next day makes it hard for you to sleep. Your body cannot relax, and your heart rate and blood pressure become elevated. Try meditating, doing yoga, or doing something relaxing before bed to help you go
to sleep.

Hitting the snooze button
We all have woken up to the alarm, hit the snooze button, and said, “Just 5 more minutes.” Well it turns out, that is not the best for us. When you hit that snooze button and go back to sleep, you restart your sleep cycle, which means when you do get up, that  sleep cycle is unfinished. That makes you more tired than if you had gotten up without pressing the snooze button.

Having the temperature to hot
Your body temperature has a cycle, and towards bedtime your body temperature gets cooler, which effects your blood vessels. When the temperature in the room is too hot, it prevents your body temperature from lowering, which means your blood vessels are enlarged and you lose more heat. So when heading to bed put the temperature somewhere in the 60s.

Using technology
When we use a device that produces light, it tricks our body into thinking that the light is coming from the sun. The body thinks the sun signals it to stay awake. This stops the production of melatonin, which is what helps us go to sleep. So instead of scrolling through social media, watching a video or playing a game, try reading a book before going to bed.

Having Caffeine
Caffeine items such as coffee, tea, cocoa, energy drinks, and chocolate are great when you wake up because the caffeine blocks the sleep-inducing chemicals in your brain. Once the caffeine takes effect, it takes about 6 hours for half of the caffeine to leave your body. This means it would be best not to have that cup of coffee in the afternoon because it will keep you up at bedtime.