Is Sleep Deprivation Holding You Back In Life?
What's the best way to end your sleep deprivation so you can live your life to the fullest?
Well, regardless of where you are in life it starts with education. Nothing can substitute for you learning about the basics of how your sleep works or the intricacies of a specific sleep disorder that may be holding you back.
Drowsiness Is Red Alert
Learning the meaning behind this simple phrase will very likely save your life at some point in the future. Click the image to find out how.
Go "Sleepwalking" Through Our Sleep Essentials Quick Guide!
Healthy sleep starts by educating yourself. Go "sleepwalking" through our sleep essentials quick guide to become more knowledgable about sleep than 99.9% of people...in less than an hour!
Stanford Students' Sleep Outreach Projects - 2010
Each year students in Stanford Sleep and Dreams attempt to bring sleep knowledge to the world. Now you too can be a part of the fun by checking out our videos, brochures, articles, teaching experiences, and more!
Not only will this knowledge empower you to combat your individual situation, but it will also provide you with invaluable motivation to eliminate your sleep deprivation as you begin to realize the full extent of what can be lost or gained depending on your sleep health.
Ready to get started? Use the navigation on the left of the site to click on a topic that interests you, or go "sleepwalking" through our crash course of sleep knowledge to learn about the basics of sleep health, the mechanisms that govern it, and the disorders that thwart it.
Use the sleep steps below to begin your "sleepwalking" journey:
Sleep Step 1 | Sleep Step 2 | Sleep Step 3 | Sleep Step 4 | Sleep Step 5
(The remaining sleep steps are coming soon!)
The Triumvirate of Health
Nearly everyone knows that good nutrition and regular exercise are key ingredients to a healthy, happy life. We get the importance of each hammered into us from a very young age, typically from both school and home.
The triumvirate of health calls for eating well, exercising enough, and sleeping right. People tend to have a great understanding of the first two, but healthy sleep knowledge is lacking.
However, nutrition and exercise are not the only foundational elements of well-being. Without healthy sleep, an aspect much less known about on anything beyond a superficial level, overall health is utterly compromised. And thus sleep, as a third element, completes the triumvirate of health.
The triumvirate of health is the ultimate lifetime philosophy of well-being. A person who behaves according to its three principles--good nutrition, physical fitness, and healthy sleep--is well on their way to optimized health, energy, and longevity. Unfortunately though, knowledge about sleep is not very widespread in society, and few people really know even its basic mechanisms.
But this is not due to the fact that this information is unknown. A great deal of knowledge about sleep, sleep deprivation, and sleep disorders has been accumulated in the last handful of decades, but the general public remains largely in the dark about it.
Dr. D's Sleep Book Says...
It will be extremely important for newly aware individuals to be proactive in promoting healthy sleep not only with regard to themselves and their friends, but in their community as well. So spread the word!
To make the education gap clear, we can examine a 2008 Stanford survey attempting to gauge people's prior exposure to knowledge about the three aspects of the triumvirate of health, which showed the following results:
Percentage of those surveyed who had been exposed to knowledge about the importance of:
- Being Physically Fit: 99.9%
- Having Good Nutrition: 91.3%
- Obtaining Adequate Sleep: 1.8%
As you can see, saying the gap in knowledge is substantial is a huge understatement in itself.
Dr. D's Sleep Book Says...
The gap created by the absence of adequate sleep education is causing problems in all components of our society. When a sleep deprived individual falls asleep while driving and is rendered dead or disabled for life, it is rare that anyone fully realizes that such tragic events are preventable on a very basic level. When a 50-year-old executive dies of coronary thrombosis, no one realizes that an undiagnosed sleep disorder may have been the culprit. The educational activities that could begin to reduce and eventually eliminate such tragedies have not yet permeated our society.
It is absolutely imperative to begin with education and understanding. And you are most definitely in the right place for that! We are very happy to have you here.
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Who We Are
Welcome! This site was created by a group of Stanford University students in Dr. William C. Dement's Sleep & Dreams course. Dr. Dement is widely regarded as the father of sleep medicine, and he's been teaching his Stanford course for 40 years!
We made this site as a call to action for people all over the world to live healthier, happier, safer, and more productive lives by learning about their own sleep. We have faith that reading the information provided on this site will motivate you to eliminate your sleep deprivation in order to live life to your fullest potential.
In fact, we challenge you to do so! What do you say, are you up for the challenge?
You can learn more about us and the people behind EYSD here.
Learn more about sleep than 99% of the world...in less than an hour!
