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As the weekend approaches, here are some helpful tips to practice good sleep hygiene! Consistent wake-up and sleep times are essential to a regular sleep cycle. A lot of young adults often disrupt their sleep cycles during the weekend by staying up extremely late and as a consequence, waking up late in the day. This shifts the entire sleep cycle and can often be difficult to recover from. It’s like having to fix a 1 to 2 hour jet lag at the start of every week.

Did you know that scientists may be able to boost your memory? By applying a current during your deep NREM SWS sleep, it has been shown that people are consolidating more of their memories. This could potentially be used to treat many sleep and memory related problems like Alzheimer's disease.

Caffeine blocks the chemical adenosine signal from reaching your brain. Adenosine is a chemical that builds up in our bodies while awake; we dissipate adenosine during sleep and while we are awake, adenosine builds up. When we intake caffeine, the adenosine signals are blocked so adenosine levels seem lower than they actually are. In this way, we we trick our brain into thinking that we have been awake for less time than we actually have, making us feel less tired.

Sleep and creativity are often linked as sleep could help gain insight to a problem. In the past, many famous people have attributed their work to sleep including Marry Shelley for her book Frankenstein, Dmitri Mendeleev who dreamt about the structure of the periodic table, and Thomas Edison who was an avid power napper.

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