Whether it’s sipping decaffeinated hot tea, blocking out all noise and light or spritzing lavender on a cushy pillow, many of us do what we can to get a blissful night’s rest. Take this quiz to figure out your sleep personality, and find strategies best suited to your sleep style.
Next questions are designed to test sleep knowledge. Answers address sleep disorders, myths, drowsy driving, age-related changes and sleep need.
Please choose True of False for each statement and check your answers below!
1- During sleep, your brain rests.
2- You cannot learn to function normally with one or two fewer hours of sleep a night than you need.
3- Boredom makes you feel sleepy, even if you have had enough sleep.
4- Resting in bed with your eyes closed cannot satisfy your body’s need to sleep.
5- Snoring is not harmful as long as it doesn’t disturb others or wake you up.
6- Everyone dreams every night.
7- The older you get the fewer hours of sleep you need.
8- Most people don’t know when they are sleepy.
9- Raising the volume of your radio will help you stay awake while driving.
10- Sleep disorders are mainly due to worry or psychological problems.
11- The human body never adjusts to night shift work.
12- Most sleep disorders go away even without treatment.
Answers
1 False. While your body rests your brain doesn’t. An active brain during sleep prepares us for alertness and peak functioning the next day.
2 True. Sleep need is biological. While children need more sleep than adults, how much sleep any individual needs is genetically determined. Most adults need eight hours of sleep to function at their best. How to determine what you need? Sleep until you wake up on your own…without an alarm clock. Feel rested? That’s your sleep need. You can teach yourself to sleep less, but not to need less sleep. Read The Full Story…
and give a hangover effect the next day and beyond. They impair memory, reduce performance on the job and at home, and contribute to machine and car accidents.
sleep more than adults; they spent about 10 hours a day sleeping. Newborns, however, may sleep for nearly two-thirds of their day. There is an age-related difference in average time spent sleeping. As a person ages, they require less sleep. The elderly only spent around 6.5 hours a day sleeping.
research on sleep, chronobiology and mood disorders. He supplies the following answer.
insomnia, hypersomnia, tiredness or fatigue, disturbing dreams or nightmares, lethargy, and inability to concentrate.
treatment programs shows that the long term recovery rate is around 16 – 20 %. The majority of these 



