How To Improve Sleep Quality

There are plenty of people who get lots of sleep each night and still tend to be tired each morning; people who encounter this often assume that more sleep is the key, but actually, it is much better to understand how sleep works than to simply get more sleep! When you understand how sleep works, you will be able to sleep "correctly," and this will give you much more energy than you would get from any other method - even from adding extra sleep.

Your body and mind go through a cycle when you sleep that lasts about 90 minutes for each revolution of the cycle; you have probably heard the term "REM sleep" - and may even know that this means "rapid eye movement," but even with that, you might have no clue how to use this information to your advantage.

The first 65 minutes of your sleep cycle is taken up with normal, non-REM sleep, and this is followed by 20 minutes of REM sleep - which is the time of your sleep during which you dream, sleep the deepest, and of course get the best rest.

Of course, this leaves five minutes left in order to reach 90 minutes; this remaining five minutes is the time when your body and mind are in limbo - the time during which they are gearing up for the next set of sleep, and during which you are most likely to wake up to any slight disturbance.

The Natural Sleep Solution!

When you wake up during this "in-between" time, you are much more likely to feel rested and ready to start your day, and this means that the best way to ensure that you feel rested when you get up in the morning is to time your "wake up" so that it comes at the end of a 90 minute cycle!

Instead of getting a more random amount of sleep, try to make sure your sleep cycle leads you to meet your alarm clock during this limbo period, and you will feel much more ready to get out of bed and attack the day upon waking!