Kade McGowen Sleep Blog

  This week's readings was extremely informative but also very very hard. So in this weeks readings of Dreamland by David K Randall it spoke of the issue of sleeping with a partner. This is something I never realized the impacted your sleep quality. I currently sleep in the same bed as my partner each night. I grew up sleeping in my own bed and being blessed with having my own room so I was not used to sleeping with other individuals when we first started to. I hug the edge of the bed curled up in a ball this is the position that feels the most comfortable to me, wether I have the whole bed or just a slice of it. So, when assessing my partners sleep they are one whom snores and moves very violently throughout the night, from tossing and turning just to find the best possible position. They are a very hard sleeper as well so when they are snoring I usually give them a nudge to stop long enough for me to get back to a deep enough sleep not to notice. Yet, this doesn’t always work and

So, my sleep this week has been becoming more normalized. Trying to keep a schedule of going to bed at 11 and getting up to go to the gym at 5 is something me and my partner and I are trying to do. The hardest thing about waking up that early is getting out of the warm, comfy bed. Once I am up I am perfectly fine and ready for the day. The workout really jumpstarts me. Keeping the schedule is very helpful. The bad thing is that I am not reaching the 8 hours of necessary sleep thus my sleep debt is about 10 hours by the end of the week. Sleep debt, is the amount of sleep you owe ypur body. The average adult is supposed to get roughly 8 hours of sleep but I am onky getting about 6. The extra two hours add up against your body which is known as sleep debt. So, I end up sleeping in on Saturday and  Sunday till 10  or 11 in the morning falling asleep the same time as I usually do during the week. Yet when calculating ny sleep debt to the amount paid during the weekend I still owe myself 2 t