Can You Force Yourself to Sleep Less ?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130320-can-you-get-by-on-less-sleep
by: Hadeel

People when they get older they sleep less. While teenagers sleep more than the normal hours. Is this statement is true? We don't actually know. According to CNN they said that the hours of sleeping differ from one to another 80% of us manage between six and nine hours a night; the other 20% sleep more or less than this. But how easy is it to change your regular schedule? If you force yourself to get out of bed a couple of hours early every day will your body eventually become accustomed to it? Sadly not. We all know that the lack of sleep makes us sick and weaker. One of the effects of not sleeping well is hard time to concentrate on one thing either a lecture or your work. Also, being stressed and confused is another effect in the short – term. However, in the long-term effects is more dangerous. According to the article they said that getting less sleep than you need over the course of decades is associated with an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. But, there are a very few people who sleep less every day and they don’t get sick; those people known as “sleepless elite”. In 2009, the University of California San Francisco discovered a mother and daughter, who went to bed very late, yet were up bright and early every morning. Even in the weekends when they can get more sleep they actually don’t and they wake up very early and sleep late. So, tests shows that the mother and daughter have a gene called hDEC2, and when the researchers put the same gene in mice they found that they sleep less. But, this gene isn’t available to rest of us, because at the moment we are stuck with the genes we have.

The researchers working with the military had found that people can bank sleep in advance that might work. For instance, according to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research they had people go to bed a couple of hours earlier than usual every night for a week. When they were subsequently deprived of sleep they didn't suffer as much as the people who hadn't had the chance to bank sleep in advance. Try this method it will help you on organizing your sleep.