Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep
- Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping - breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops
- Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep - you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it
- Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep - it is very hard to wake up from Deep Sleep because this is when there is the lowest amount of activity in your body
- After Deep Sleep, we go back to Stage 2 for a few minutes, and then enter Dream Sleep - also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep - which, as its name suggests, is when you dream
In a full sleep cycle, a person goes through all the stages of sleep from one to four, then back down through stages three and two, before entering dream sleep
Reality Check
I have always wanted to create a blog. something to show everyone. My deepest thoughts that I never would say aloud because of my shy personality. How do you create something that everyone wants to see, be proud of, or wish it were there own? I say/think that you just go with your thoughts. most of the time everyone is thinking the same thing. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes someone is going to think that you are totally crazy. Think about it; you are.
Think of Psycho, ”We all go a little mad sometimes.” I know that I do and with four older brothers; being the only girl does not help. High School just adds on. How many times do I have to look down the hall and see girls dressing alike? “Twinseys,” they say. I call these supermodel wannabes my friends? how can I? we are different, but yet the same. We are all either trying to do our own thing, follow dreams yet to be dreamed, or try to blend into the crowd. I do all, and i never speak up.
Speaking up for something I believe in is different from speaking up. Why? Is it that I believe in anything that does not deal with me or how I feel? Do I not believe in myself? I can believe in anyone around me because I believe that they are special. They deserve to be praised; feel like A God. Do I not think that I deserve the same things as everyone else?
They answer is yes. I deserve to be proud of my talents and grateful for the things that I can call my own. Why am I not? Maybe its because not everyone wants to sound like a bitch. but yet there is always someone to say that they are better than you or they can do that too, but they can do it better then you. Do you see the word in here the most that I see? I hope so. No one is better then the next person. we are all the same. we are all human. Tell me if I’m wrong.
-from the girl you least expected it, with love Leslie :)
