Cool & dark room ❄️ Regular bedtimes & wake times 🛌 Limit screen time 📵 Good sleep hygiene can help keep our brains healthy in the short term — and for the long haul 🧠
. “You may notice mood changes — that you’re more irritable or stressed out.”
A complete sleep cycle lasts around 90 to 110 minutes, beginning with light sleep or the feeling of drifting off.Eventually our brain reaches rapid eye movement sleep. This is the final and deepest phase of sleep, during which we may not even hear our name being called. It is also the time when we dream.
“If the alarm goes off during REM, you disrupt that cycle,” Taylor said. “If you can’t wake up without an alarm, that’s a sign that you should go to bed earlier.”, with about 50% of our sleep cycle spent in REM. As we age, our need for REM sleep decreases.Senior adults still need that 25% of REM sleep