Worry and anxiety may be keeping us awake during this stressful time. Dean Terri Weaver offers sleep hygiene strategies to help us fall and stay asleep and get the rest we need to feel our best.
What is Sleep?
Sleep is a reversible behavioral state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the environment. In other words, it's "a cyclical physiological process that alternates with longer periods of wakefulness" (Potter & Perry, "Fundamentals of Nursing"). Sleep is a very complex amalgam of physiological and behavioral processes that unlikes a coma.
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We need sleep to restore physiologically and psychologically as well as maintain biological functions. Sleeping is important for our learning, memory, and adaptation to stress.