Developing A Nighttime Routine For A Better Night's Sleep

Develop A Sleep Schedule

Everyone has an internal body clock, though most refer to it as an internal alarm. This is when the body naturally wants to wake up in the morning and when it starts to get tired at night. Developing a sleep schedule helps to regulate your internal alarm and ensure once you fall asleep at night, you remain asleep until you need to get out of bed the next morning.

Most individuals with a full-time job with regular hours need to be awake at roughly 7:00 AM, so they have enough time to get ready in the morning. Since the average person needs about eight hours of sleep each night, this means they would need to be in bed no later than 11:00 PM, but ideally earlier, since most do not fall asleep as soon as their head hits the pillow. Developing a sleep schedule means always going to bed at the same time each night and waking up at the same time in the morning. Your body will get used to the routine and will often start waking you up before the morning alarm goes off after a little while. Varying from this routine causes sleep disruptions since the body isn’t used to the routine, which is comparable to what individuals experience with jet lag. Thus, figure out the average time you need to be awake in the morning and schedule your sleep around that.

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