Sleep depravation doesn’t just cause physical tiredness, it can affect the function of your brain too. This article looks at how lack of sleep can affect your learning potential.

What constitutes as enough sleep?

While definitions can vary, it seems the average is about 8.5 hours of sleep per night.

Sleep depravation can damage ones ability to stay focused, abstract thinking, creative ability, communication, and more. If these symptoms seem familiar, they are also symptoms of ADHD, the attention deficit disorder many people experience. It has been shown that these symptoms lead to poor performance in the classroom.

The route people should take in order to get more sleep is to make sleeping a larger priority in their lives.

Many people have a sleep schedule that has a very low priority in there busy lives. Investing in a new set of soft sheets or a better mattress and bed could give people the incentive to making sleep a greater priority in there lives. Even some sleep inducing music, such as sounds of the sea can help a person fall asleep.

Once a student finds a way of getting more sleep positive results should be instant. Grades will go up because of better quality work. There will be a large increase in energy which could be converted into more productive working time.

It has been noted that getting more sleep can have other fringe benefits besides helping you learn better. When the body gets at least eight hours sleep, you wake up with more energy which will lead to a more fulfiling lifestyle. Also having more sleep will contribute to feeling relaxed and happier.