SLEEP CURVES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 8

SLEEP CURVES

WILL DETERMINE YOUR VITALITY MAKE A WISE USE OF THEM. Do you know that the way you sleep determines the fluctuations of your vitality during the day? There are two distinct sleep curves, says science, two types of sleepers. Which are you? Do you sleep most soundly during the early night or just before you awaken in the morning? If you belong to type one, your sleep curve takes a sharp dip shortly after you have closed your eyes, rises just as sharply and continues very near the conscious level until habit calls you in the morning. Then you leap out of bed wide awake, dash merrily to your bath and feel as if you could conquer the world before breakfast. And so you could, for then your vitality is at its highest. You should plan to do your most exacting work —your difficult creative work, whether it is mental or physical —in the morning. Towards five o’clock your energy may begin to sag. A pleasant evening for you will be some type of entertainment which will amuse you while you resi.

The sleep curve of the second typo, on the other hand, reaches its deepest point in three or four hours and then takes a second dip during the seventh or eighth hour. If you are one of these you should arrange your day in reverse.

Do you awaken reluctantly, perhaps with a dull headache? And docs it take all of your will power to climb out of bed. After a cup or two of hot coffee you gradually get yourself geared for the day.

By afternoon you are feeling more kindly towards the world, and after dinner you are at the peak of your vitality. Business problems look clearer then. And your zest for both work and play is keener. In fact, then is your time to sparkle. But whether you belong to the morning or evening bloomers, you will be well equipped for the day if you remember not to use more energy than you have stored up in. rest and sleep and if you arrange your life to make the wisest use of your vitality.