From this Sleep Diary assignment, I was able to discern much more than the average times that I woke up an slept at. After recording several pieces of data for 6 days(we started on a Wednesday) I calculated averages for how much I slept at night, how many times that I woke up at night, number of caffeinated beverages I had throughout the week as well, and the results surprised me. On average, I had about 8 hours of sleep throughout the week, which was more than I was expecting; I usually went to bed at 12:15, no matter what part of the week it was, and woke up at 8:00 on average, considering that I had a few free firsts on school days. As I expected, on typical schools days where I had only slept for 7 hours or less, my overall energy levels were slow to reach peak alertness, and crashed much sooner than on days such as Saturday, where the added hours to my sleep schedule kept me wide awake into times when I would have been way drowsier otherwise. Seeing the effects of my sleep on my overall productivity and ability to concentrate has helped convince me of the extreme importance that sleep has on our health. Even a few hours missing from my sleep schedule, which I previously through nothing of, really affected me more than I thought in terms of sleepiness during the day, and led to me having to take short naps during the day when I could have been doing more productive things such as homework.
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