![]() And believe it or not, we’ll help you wake up a little bit.Īt night time, remember that bright light can actually interfere with sleep onset. It’ll help with the lighting in your classes as well. If you can set up your desks, you near a window, get some natural sunlight coming in. If you’re pounding cups of coffee while you’re trying to finish a term paper at 11 o’clock at night, you’re probably not going to be able to fall asleep and again, you’re going to have difficulty the next day (see #1). So I usually recommend that if you are really sensitive to caffeine, avoid it after 12 o’clock noon, because otherwise it can linger in your system long enough to interfere with falling asleep at bedtime. Cup of coffee or tea in the morning can be very helpful, but I’m going to put an asterix after caffeine because we also know that it can interfere with sleep onset. Caffeine certainly helps people stay awake. Let’s talk about your friend and mine: caffeine. These naps are not three or four hour naps where you’re under your covers and your bed, because those are going to interfere with sleep onset. Prolonged naps are a no-no cause they’re going to make it more difficult for you to fall asleep at night and then result in more sleep deprivation and sleepiness the next day. A really short nap will help your alertness for a few hours and can help you push through the end of the day. I’m talking about a 10 or 15 minute nap where you put your head down. To be clear: don’t do this during your classes, but if you have 10 or 15 minutes beforehand, take what I call a short tactical nap. Of course again, it might be a little bit weird if you’re doing air squats while you’re on your conference call, but I don’t know maybe your teacher or your boss is going to be cool with that. ![]() That’ll actually get your heart rate going and it will help you be more alert when you go into your next class. Do some yoga, do some pushups, et cetera. If you can pop in some headphones and walk around your room a little bit, that will also help wake you up.īetween classes, if you could get a little bit of exercise. If you can, position your Chromebook or laptop, so you can stand up. If you are able to move around during a class, it can help. The fact is if you are standing up, you are not going to fall asleep and you’re actually going to feel more alert. Make sure that your are muted and not too closely mic’d- you don’t want to be the guy with the loud mouth noise 3. It just helps them wake up a little bit, especially if they need to push through the end of a class. If you aren’t familiar with narcolepsy, it is a rare disorder which causes significant sleepiness during the day. These are both things that help my narcolepsy patients stay awake in class. If you are a, grown-up such as myself set up seven and a half to eight and a half hours of sleep at night, high-quality sleep is key. Younger kids say middle-schoolers nine to 10 hours of sleep. So for teenagers, you need eight to nine hours of sleep a night. And, let’s be real here- online classes aren’t as engaging as in person classes.Įven if you don’t fall asleep, it’ll be difficult to participate. However, if you are sleep deprived, you’re pretty likely to fall asleep in tedious situations. If you aren’t sleep deprived, you won’t fall asleep in a boring class (even if you want to). I was at a meeting once and something a speaker said really struck with me: tedium unmasks sleepiness.
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