Let's sleep

My Sleep
Here in the Philippines I can’t explain my sleep very well. I wake up early due to the sun that enters my room after five o’clock and sometimes due to noise outside. But I can’t say, if I’m sleepy in the morning. (Maybe that’s why a lot of Filipinos take a siesta if they can – just in case they are sleepy or because they woke up so early.)
As the sun enhances the production of serotonin, which improves your mood, it’s likely that you’re not feeling sleepy. Additionally hot and cold or in my case just cold showers expels fatigue.

Trivia
I collected some interesting stuff about sleeping:

• You can’t catch up sleep.
• And you can’t sleep in advance – you can't store recovery.
• Good sleepers are happier. That’s why sleeping disorders can cause depressions, as well as depressions can cause sleeping disorders.
• Sleep before midnight is not better than afterwards, it’s more important, that your sleep is deep enough (which is mostly in the first five hours).
• People naturally feel most sleepy (have the greatest "drive for sleep") at two times of the day about 12 hours apart – so the post-lunch-dip mostly refers more to your biological clock than to your full stomach.
• Even protozoons have their circadian rhythm.
• Referring to the circadian rhythm our working abilities start at 9 a.m. (that's why some scientist all over the world suggest to start school at that time).
  
• If you’re a shiftworker you can’t just shift your night. Sleep that starts in the morning will be shorter and disturbed because it’s a time where the body wants to be active. So a longer period of shiftwork will affect your health badly. (Maybe we should suggest that the government prohibits shiftwork ;))
• Sex could support a good sleep, but until now it was just proved with bunnies.
• Alcohol can be relaxing, but it should be just a little. Because alcohol depresses the REM-phases and the body will try to catch up that causes a shallow and disturbed sleep in the second half of the night.
• Hence people who drink a lot of alkohol are one of the poorest sleepers. They wake up often, have problems to fall asleep, sweat a lot, have a dry mouth and snore hard (because alcohol weakens the muscles).
• Sleepwalking concerns most of the time children and is a genetic hereditary.
• Some people need up to one week to recover from a jetlag that causes problems to fall asleep and stay sleeping, sleepiness during daytime, problems with their metabolism, bad temper and problems with their concentration.
• It’s easier to adjust to a timeshift, if you’re travelling to the west and get some extra hours than to the east where you loose some.