Does the amount of sleep you get nightly affect your concentration during the day? (Survey Question)?
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Lynn Walker, 6 hours, 8.5\n\ngood luck!
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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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I am prescribed 20 mg, 2 times a day. If I need to focus later in the evening I increase to 60 mg, though it does lead to trouble sleeping as a side effect.\nI'm on tablets (immediate release).
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i have problems sleeping.. last week was my worst ... had like 4hours of sleep in 6days ... from how i feel when that happens, its nooot good to ur health.. I get major major head pains,, feels like my brain is turning to mush, your eye sight gets bad,u get start to see double cause your eyes cant focus. you dont blink as much, your body pretty much shuts down
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It's hard to say.  You need to probe this yourself.  Sit down and think about it.  Are there lots of distractions?  Are you tired?  Are you studying at the right time of day, in the right place.  I like to study in a relatively quiet (but not silent) envirnment, where there is lots of natural light, and they sell coffee.  This works best for me.  You need to find what works for you.  Also, if the problem persists, see a doc.  There can be medical issues that make it difficult to concentrate.  Good luck!
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Um, let's see... about 11pm to 5/6 am...um, what's that? yeah about 6.5 hours too. It pretty much stinks. And then if there's a major project I sometimes get, like, only 3 hours because I got to bed at 3 am or something. I don't really like school either for that reason. How do they expect us to do well when we don't even get enough sleep?
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im 16 and so far these habits have really helped me concentrate; and by concentrating you can get your work done in half the time. sit at a tidy desk. make sure the area is well-lit, and sit straight on ur chair. dont play any music etc, and try to concentrate as hard as you can without daydreaming. you should hopefully feel better about studying. :)
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Caffiene will keep you alert when feeling tired how ever  you will need take more and more to fight the effects of tiredness, and it is also addictive. Another side effect will be a sudden crash if you dont maintian the levels in your body. One minute you will be awake and alert the next you will find that you have no energy and feel reallly tired. You should be aware that by working long hours at full alertness is detremental to you health over long periods of time. It disturbs your sleep pattern and causes you to become less alert. \n\nThere is also the practical issue of determining the level of fatigue at which performance poses a real risk. How do we set standards for fatigue? How much fatigue is too much? We recently compared the effects of sleep deprivation and alcohol intoxication and found that after 17-19 hours without sleep, starting from waking at about 0600 hours, individuals' performance was equivalent to or worse than at 0.05% blood alcohol concentration.15 In other words, commonly experienced levels of sleep deprivation—one extended day for a well rested individual—had a profound effect on performance. At around 2230-2430, well before reaching the circadian trough in alertness, performance levels were low enough to be considered incompatible with safe driving in many countries.\n\nThats an extract from the link below. I hope you work it worth the cost to you and your health.
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I am more interested in giving serious useful info. See my other answers also please. \n\nWhen you study doesn’t really matter.\n\nThough it is difficult to show any scientific backing, it is widely accepted that some people are "late night persons" and some are "early birds". What is most important is that you should not change your natural sleeping pattern and personality.\n\nThere are some disadvantages for "late night persons". They tend to wake up late, thus their days start late, and everywhere they are a little late than the rest. So they often find they lose many opportunities in life. Secondly, "late night persons" normally don’t have much social contacts and they get isolated from the other people and this may lead into personality problems and they may become more and more introverts and tend to spend more and more time browsing internet or watching TV. In a way these people lose contact with the real world and become unrealistic, idealistic or dreamers in life. Not all “late night persons” may end up dreamers and introverts. However, this is one possibility.\n\nThere are some advantages studying in the late night or early morning. There would be very less disturbance thus one can get good concentration. If a person sleeps in the day, most of the essential things will not disturb him/her. Say, if it is important to attend an appointment with your medical adviser, it is very likely you would stop reading and attend that meeting, if it is day time. However, in the night, even if you are reminded of that meeting, there is nothing you can do. Thus, you will continue studying. What else you can do in the night? \n\nMost important thing in studying is that the brain should get good rest. If you need to sleep for 8 hours or 9 hours, you should sleep. You can visualize your brain cells some thing like a spinning top (or a vibrating spring) that spins faster in the beginning and slowdown and come to a standstill. Normally then the other portions of your brain will take up those responsibilities and continue to do the work. But it is important that your brain should get adequate rest. Also avoid studying immediately after eating.\n\nThe most effective way of studying is to give rest for the brain every 30 minutes. Take break for 5 minutes after every 30 minutes. Afternoon sleep after taking food not more than 30 minutes is good.\n\n85% everything what we memorize is lost immediately. Therefore, repetition is very important. Repeat reading or revisiting the past learnt things are very important. This can be done in many ways. The best way is to explain to some one else. (It is a known secret that most of the teachers and lawyers learn their subject after (applying it) talking to others.) If you don’t have any one else, then teach your self.\n\nReading immediately before the exam etc is very effective (not reading for first time but refreshing, or revisiting the past-learnt stuffs. What ever you read may be in the short-term memory next day when you write the exams. However, it is not practical for a vast amount of data. To study vast amount of data, the technique is to push what ever in your short-term memory into long-term memory a little by little every day. This is done by repetition. Repetition is the most important technique for putting more information in the long-term memory.\n\nUnder moderate pressure, we can learn more. However, under no pressure and under extreme pressure the ability to memorize would come down.\n\nIn addition, what ever we memorize just before going to sleep and immediately after we wake up may be stored more effectively. This is because the electrical waves in our brain are different at different stages of sleep and when we are awake.\n\nAnswers should be verified for accuracy
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This really depends upon the person.  As a general rule of thumb, it does have an impact and is sometimes associate with personality and sleep disorders.  But this is not a hard and fast rule.\nIf sleep is like the body’s pit stops in the rat race of life, then avoiding pit stops when you need them will only lead to unscheduled stops later.  With any luck you will not crash, or worse, crash and burn.
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Im 25, usually 7 - 8 hours does it, if ive been sleeping regularly in this pattern. However, if Ive not eaten much the day before, if my diet isnt right, my blood sugar would be low, hence the lack of energy.\nSo to answer your question. Regular sleep(7-8 hrs), good diet, no stress.\nHope ive helped your study.
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I hav single session(7am-2pm).after 2pm i hav cca till 6pm most days.I relax, shower n hav dinner(6.30pm-8pm).so i have to study frm 8pm onwards.
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Oh ya, me too as healthcare provider, I work 12 hours a day. I'm used to sleep late at night, with wakeful hours since my boyfriend calls me from time to time from work. He work night shift, so more or less, I get 4 to 5 hours of sleep daily too except my off days, which is the happiest days of my life because I can take enough rest and sleep. I can even sleep 12 hours during my day off to catch up those days I lack sleep. We need enough sleep since lack of sleep below 6 hours a day will lead to serious heart problems as what I've read in the internet.
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Night owl; I'm up during most of the night just getting ready for the next day (homework and such) during the week.  And on weekends, I'm in no condition to be an early bird after staying out all night ;)
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I was born in the pm...10:56 to be exact.  I am a night person.  I have never thought of the correlation between the 2.  Interesting.  It very well could be one of the factors as to why I am a night person.\nThanks for that...something for me to think about anyway.\n:)
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ofcourse man. sometimes the brain needs to relax in order to function at the maximum. that's why you do better at study after waking from nap or when you are studying at a soothing enviroment.
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when we sleep our brains dont shut down but slow down.  we rejuvinate our brain causing us to think more clearly and be more preductive in just about everything we do.  It can effect the body in the long run.  Our muscles dont get the proper rest they require.  here are two links.  the first goes into great detail about what it does to the brain and the second is sleep deprivation fron diccovery.com