has anyone ever had a sleep study?
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I tried that thing where you play an educational tape all night while you sleep.  I recorded myself spelling out words I had to learn.  It didn't work much.  I think it worked only cause it took me an hour to fall asleep cause of the noise, and I learned during that hour I was awake.
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I really suggest you go with Kristine M's advise and take him to a sleep clinic and have a test done. Your husband's doctor can make a referral through your insurance company for that. I have a CPAP machine and I sleep very well at night since I have gotten it.
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What time of day are you studying?  How much sleep are you getting at night?  Are you working as well?  Do you eat a healthy diet?
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First I am 60 years old and for 40 of them in denial of the fact that I had a sleep problem. I do have seep apnea and have the breathing device. I have lost weight and probably gained back 25 years! I was tired every day and did not know why! Just call me Saved Mr. Denial! Now your question.\n\nMost of the apnea heart attacks, that I have read about, occured in babies or the very young.  Apnea tends to stress our bodies overall by dening true sleep, so I would guess it would tend to cause just about any kind of condition from over-weight to you name it including the resulting heart attack from stress from lack of rest and or oxygen.\n\nIf you suspect a sleep disorder, or a loved one has told you you have a breathing problem or say your foot jumps during the night, you are probably not getting the REM type sleep that you need.  Check around for a sleep clinic, they are covered by almost all insurance plans.  Get a doctor to check you out.  It really is NOT quackery it really works and is worth a couple of nights of being probed.\n\nGood sleep is wonderful.  I did without good sleep for over half my life, don't you live in denial, if you suspect a problem take action!  You will live a longer happier life.\n\nPowell
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I wouldn't recommend it.  At least get 2-3 hours of sleep, then wake up early and continue studying.
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None because you were asleep on the job?
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Narcolepsy Research:\nhttp://www.medical-research-studies.org/narcolepsy.shtml
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visit www.dreamdoctor.com there's sleep lab info there
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According to a recent study, one sleepless night sabotages creativity and coping skills. Without sleep, the "walking wounded" are less spontaneous, flexible and original. Unable to break out of intellectual ruts or come up with a fresh perspective, they become rigid, stick to tried-and-true approaches to problems and can't deal with unfamiliar situations. If they concentrate hard enough, they can perform routine tasks or well-known, well defined emergencies--unless they lose a second night of sleep. Then even performance of mundane or familiar chores suffers. \n\nChronic insomniacs have more problems getting started in the morning than normal sleepers and often feel so exhausted after work that they forego leisure activities and social engagements. The stress of trying to perform well despite their sleeplessness may lead to depression and other psychological problems. Individuals with chronic sleep problems that cause excessive daytime drowsiness, such as the breathing disorder called sleep apnea, may have so much difficulty with attention, concentration or memory that they perform as if their IQs were ten points lower than they actually are. \n\nDisrupted sleep and sleep disorder cost business as much as $70 billion annually in lost productivity, industrial accidents and higher medical bills, according to the Institute for Circadian Physiology in Boston. Sometimes the toll is even higher. Falling asleep at the wheel is second only to alcohol as a cause of car accidents. In all, 200,000 to 400,000 collisions involving drowsy drivers occur each year and claim as many as 6,500 lives. \n\nThe best solution may be the most obvious: more and better sleep. In a study at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, sleep researchers found that healthy people who slept just one additional hour felt better, became more alert and performed better on the job. Their conclusion: "Ideally, you should sleep until you're slept out. You should awaken spontaneously without an alarm clock and feel fresh and vital in the daytime." \n\nfor the sake of better sleep: \n\n1. Keep regular hours. The best way to ensure perfect nights is to stick to a regular schedule. If you sleep late one morning and rise before dawn the next, you can come down with a home-bound version of jet lag. To keep your biological clock in sync, get up at the same time, regardless of how much or how little you've slept. \nTry to stick close to your usual sleep schedule on weekends and holidays as well as workdays. If you stay up late on Friday and Saturday nights and sleep-in the following mornings you may give yourself a case of "Sunday-night insomnia": You get to bed early to be bright eyed on Monday morning and try to sleep, but you can't. The harder you try, the more wakeful you feel. When travel or work throws of your routine, try to maintain some semblance of regularity. Eat your meals at the same times you normally do. Try to get some sleep during your usual bedtime hours. And return to your normal schedule as soon as you can. \n\n2. Exercise regularly. Exercise enhances sleep by burning off the tensions that accumulate during the day, allowing both the body and mind to unwind. While the fit seem to sleep better and deeper than the flabby, you don't have to push to utter exhaustion. A 20 to 30 minute walk, jog, swim or bicycle ride at least three days a week--the minimum for cardiovascular benefits--should be your goal. \nBut don't wait too late in the day to exercise. In the evening, you should be concentrating on winding down rather than working up a sweat. And don't expect early-morning exercise to have any impact on the tensions that build up during the day. The ideal exercise time is late afternoon or early evening, when your workout can help you shift gears from daytime pressures to evening pleasures. \n3. Cut down on stimulants. North Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day and get extra doses in tea, cola
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I know a few people that went this weekend. Two of them ended up sleeping during it, but I don't think they were too mad because they needed a good nap..lol.
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Yes.  I did some double blind tests in High school which objectively could be written off any number of ways, except that as the recipient of one experiment, the experience was so profound, I came away a believer.\n\nOur experiment was that one person was to go to sleep at a particular hour, with a radio playing pop music softly in the room.  The other person, about an hour later, across town was to try to send a telepathic message to wake up when a certain popular song was played.  The recipient did not know what song was selected.  When/if the recipient woke up, he was to write down whatever song was playing.\n\nWe had a pretty high hit rate.  As the subject of one round I remember being in a deep sleep, dreaming, when the opening bars of the theme from Star Wars (this was about 1977) ripped through my dreams like an explosion and yanked me instantly and fully awake.  It was about 2:30 am, and as a 14 year old I NEVER woke in the middle of the night.  The mere sound didn't do it, the radio was on so softly you could barely hear it, but that song woke me up like the orchestra was right in the room with me.  The next day we confirmed that the suggestion was indeed to wake when star wars played.\n\nAnd all that crap about we use only 10% of our brain is just that: a lot of crap.  Most of the brain power you're "not using" is being used to perform tasks below your conscious level to even enable you to be conscious!  Far more than 10% of the brain is used just in processing visual stimuli.  Same with language and communication processing.  Stop and think of the hideous amount of firmware necessary to run - perfectly - for me to be able to process my thoughts into language, and then translate them into finger motions over a keybopard at the incredible rate of 60wpm just to write this message.  Just reading this message takes up more than 10% of your brainpower before you even get to the point where you can think about what it says.
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A friend and I were allowed to have a rent free caretakers house that sat just inside an old cemetary in Maryland. It was the coolest old house and the cemetary was beautiful (as far as cemetary's go) Old! \n\nThings like ghosts, spirits and cemetaries have never made me afraid really so it was all good. \nAfter spending a late night out, I came home and decided just to lie across the sofa instead of going upstairs. The moon was very bright that night and had the room lit with shadows. We had a cat named Sam and he was downstairs with me as well. As we lay on the sofa suddenly the television had a glow on the screen and started making the static noises a t.v makes when its being either shut on or off. Sam took off up the stairs like a shot of lightening. It was strange but I really didn't feel anything like concern or fright. I still layed comfortably and soon closed my eyes but wasn't asleep. I then felt the sofa sink in right beside me as if someone sat down and of course I opened my eyes thinking it was Sam back. Nothing was there but there was an indent in the sofa as I ran my hand across feeling the weight of whatever was sitting next to me. The spot was cold. I then felt a slight burst of air on my face as if breathing but not warm like breath. Strange thing is, I wasn't afraid. It only lasted about a minute and stopped, the place on the couch went back to normal, a few seconds later the t.v stopped glowing and eventually Sam came downstairs.
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No, but I'd like to have about a week just to do nothing to catch up on sleep!  :)
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"What Are The Effects Of Sleep Deprivation on Short Term Memory?"...\n\nHave 3 people play the card game "Memory" (where you have 20 cards with pictures on them and turn them upside down, turning them over 2 at a time until you can turn two over and match them all) after getting 8 continuous hours of sleep.  Then, the next night, have one person get 8 hours of sleep, on person get 4 hours of sleep, and the last get no sleep, the play the game again.  Record your observations.\n\n"Under What Conditions Do Beans Grow Best?"…\n\nGet 4 jars and fill one with soil from your back yard, one with potting soil, one with sand, and pay a wet paper towel in the last.  Put a bean seed in each one (placing the seed under the wet paper towel in the jar) and water them equally each day (spray the paper towel twice daily to keep it moist).  See which method of planting produces the best bean plant.
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If you're willing to do a little reading about this, there is an excellent book called "The Promise of Sleep" by Dr. William Dement, available at Amazon.  Dr. Dement was one of the founding researchers in the field of sleep research and formed the Stanford sleep lab.\n\nA good summary of five stages of sleep (six stages if you include waking), is here:  http://www.sleepdisorderchannel.com/stages.
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Yeah, a few months ago I had an overnight stay. The bed was so uncomfortable and I couldn't sleep, all I wanted to do was get into my own bed. I had the best sleep when I came home
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twice in my 45 years of kicking around...however many more times I didn't see one but felt like there was one there...\n\nnow for a true story two weeks after my oldest son was murdered at 3 in the morning; the hour that he died every alarm clock in the house went off but when checked they were all stuck at midnight...was the only thing like that to ever happen before or since....