Sleep Informative Speech

The Complexity of Sleep In Matt McCarthy’s Nap Time, he discusses the “most mysterious” of all needs - sleep. McCarthy uses the story of Mike Napoli to introduce this topic. Napoli’s story of his struggle with severe sleep apnea includes some abnormal elements. Firstly, he cites his “first dream in a decade” that he can actually remember (p. 49).

According to David Myers, author of Myers’ Psychology for AP, he details that there are “five main” stages of sleep everyone experiences at night. The stages of sleep play a distinct role in our circadian rhythm, the twenty-four hour cycle of living beings physiological processes (Myers 226). In order to have a full understanding of sleep, it is essential to be able to distinguish between the following stages of sleep: light sleep, sleep spindles, deep sleep, and rapid eye

Makayla Shockley Informative Speech Outline Title: Progressing Through the Sleep Cycles Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the body’s changes throughout the sleep cycle.

The darkness of night unveils the hidden cove of possibilities that awaits us in sleep. For some, sleep provides the much needed distraction and replenishment needed to perform our daily routines. As we curl up under the security of our favorite blanket, snuggle against the fluffiness that is our pillow, and as we slowly begin to shut our eyes, we succumb to the beauty that is sleep. Without hesitation we accept and welcome our nightly slumber. We don’t question our vulnerable state as we lay down in bed.

These stages are stage one non-REM sleep, stage two non-REM sleep, stage three non-REM sleep, and REM sleep. “Each is linked to specific brain waves and neuronal activity.” When we first start to doze off we enter stage one non-REM sleep. This stage lasts five to ten minutes and sleep during this stage is relatively light. During this time our heartbeat, breathing, and eye movements decrease.

Sleepless in American is a National Geographic documentary on the lack of sleep Americans are receiving each night. The film starts with the statistic that “40% of American adults are sleep deprived” and followed with different effects of sleep deprivation such as: weight gain, delayed reaction time, depression, anxiety, speeds the growth of cancer, and has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Although, there is no scientific evidence to support the need for sleep, it is an important process that allows our bodies to function properly. Several sleep studies have been performed to understand the effects sleep deprivation has on a person. The participants of the sleep trial only received four hours of sleep per night.

The symptoms of sleep deprivation are apparent in the characters in Macbeth, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Frankenstein. These symptoms affect each character’s daily life. Sleep deprivation is a common predicament among the characters in Macbeth, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Frankenstein. Sleep is a five letter word with, at least, an eight hour requirement. Many people are curious as to why humans need sleep.

This strange phenomenon happens often, and the term for it is “sleep paralysis.” according to Penn State University, their research shows that it happens more often in students and psychiatric patients (University Park,2011). III. So, what exactly is sleep paralysis?

Napping is considered a global and highly prevalent phenomenon that is common in infancy and persists into adulthood for a large proportion of the world’s population. Most of those who get less than the recommended 7 or more hours of nighttime sleep often resort to napping during the day, but this ‘catch-up’ can have both a positive and negative impact on a person’s mental and physical condition. INTRODUCTION Attention getter: Remember back when you were a kid, naps were a daily occurrence?

Introduction Attention Getter: Sleep is essential, especially around us college students who spend each night staying awake to do projects we should of started weeks ago. Purpose: Well, now you can have a good rested night with these new tips and tricks!

Allan. Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. Print.

American Psychological Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2016. The National Sleep Foundation.

First of all, I’d like to explain briefly how sleep works, then I’ll tell you the effects of not sleeping at all and finally, I’ll give you some advice that may help to improve the quality of our sleep. Probably most of you have stayed up all night at least once in your life, owing to several possible reasons, such as that crazy party on your first years of university, or that awful night working against the clock before the submission deadline, or maybe when your babies wouldn’t stop crying all night. And it wouldn’t be unlikely that you hadn’t had time to get a proper sleep the next morning since you had to go to work or to class or wherever. Then you were bond to face this tricky dilemma:

The cause of sleep is an active inhibitory process .An earlier theory of sleep was that the excitatory areas of the upper brain stem,the reticular activating system, simply fatigued during the waking day and became inactive as a result. This was called the passive theory of sleep. An important experiment changed this view to the current belief that sleep is caused by an active inhibitory process: it was discovered that transecting the brain stem at the level of the midpons creates a brain whose cortex never goes to sleep. In other words, there seems to be some center located below the midpontile level of the brain stem that is required to cause sleep by inhibiting other parts of the

Waking the individual during the second stage may cause mild disorientation because the body is preparing for a deep sleep cycle. The third stage is the deep sleep stage and by this time the individual will be very hard to