We’ve all heard and said things like, “There’ll be time to sleep when I die,” or “My mind decides to run when normal people sleep.” In Lessons Learned by Stephanie Vozza we learn from Teofilo Lee-Chiong, that “optimal sleep requires proper duration, quality, consolidation and timing. Disruption to any of these four essential elements of sleep causes a person to wake up feeling unrefreshed.”
Source: Fast Company, December 2, 2015.
“We all suffer from a certain degree of sleep inertia—that feeling that makes you want to continuously hit snooze in the morning,” says sleep expert Teofilo Lee-Chiong, professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Someone with pronounced inertia has a strong desire to return to sleep, and morning sleep inertia and its impairments to mental alertness and physical functioning can last anywhere from two to four hours.”
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