If you feel like you have to rely on tons of coffee to stay awake or you feel like you could doze off in your lecture hall, you might be sleep-deprived.
“Simply put, when you’re sleep deprived, your brain doesn’t function at 100%,” Dr. Martin says. That means, your brain is less able to learn and encode new information, and it’s harder to recall the information that is in your brain, she says. Obviously, there’s more to college than just getting good grades, but you can imagine how this would make it hard to study, the thing you’re primarilyThe other thing about sleep deprivation is that it can impair your decision-making abilities.
“The advice I give anyone, regardless of their age, is to protect their sleep time first, then schedule everything else around it,” Dr. Martin says. Allow yourself eight hours of protected time for sleep, she suggests. If that means skipping a late-night movie with your roommate, or heading home after a pregame to sleep, so be it. Also, because those are two substances that can negatively impact the quality of your sleep.
If you’re doing everything you can to get shut-eye, but you still feel groggy all the time , you might want to go see a doctor, because it could be a sign of a sleep disorder. “It can be really important to reach out and get help and treatment,” Dr. Martin says.
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