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  Why Are Teens Gloomy?

Teens get an hour less sleep a night than you did 30 years ago; are sleep deprived of their healing positive dreams.

• Entitled “Why Teens Are Gloomy?, an article in the Globe and Mail states that”it has been documented in major studies that U.S children, from elementary school through high school, get about an hour less sleep a night than they did 30 years ago, writes Po Bronson in New York Magazine. During sleep, the brain shifts what it learned that day to more efficient storage regions of the brain, according to Matthew Walker of he University of California, Berkley. Each stage of sleep plays a role in capturing memories. In students learning foreign languages, the vocabulary is synthesized by the hippocampus early in the night during “slow -wave sleep.” The motor skills of enunciation are processed during stage 2 non-REM sleep, and the auditory memories are encoded across all stages.

• Memories that are emotionally laden get processed during REM sleep, the negative first. Not enough sleep, no pleasant memory storage, only negative.

• The more you learned that day, the more you need to sleep that final eighth hour that night.

• Negative emotional stimuli get processed by the amygdala; Positive or neutral memories by the hippocampus. Sleep deprivation hits the hippocampus harder than the amygdala. The result is that sleep-deprived people, and more so children and teens, fail to recall pleasant memories yet recall gloomy memories just fine.

• That says that the first 6 hours sleep get all your other day’s learning processed, and then one hours sleep each for the negative deep REM emotions, one hour gets them all into their compartments.

• And now, as you, your child or your teen gets ready for your positive crucial final hours happy memories processing, happy events and source of future happy memories, and … the alarm goes off, or the missus, or the mister, or the dawg, or your bladder. So you lay awake, shuddering at all those bad worries you have just processed, and until now you didn’t, nor did I, realize that crucial eighth hours of sleep could have given you all of yesterdays successes.

• What successes? Well, imagine you handled some bold action and spoke of your triumph, but you didn’t get your full sleep, you are groggy, feel somehow down…You did sleep 7 hours, so you’ve already made a hard copy of the trip you made on the stairs as you went to make your talk and how everyone including Peggy Sue laughed at you. That will come in and out out your mind all day, you will wince, try to get over it…However, Peggy Sue runs up to you, squeezes your arm, says honey your speech was wonderful. You say what? I tripped going up to the stage? Oh, that. Well, you made such a funny remark, we all laughed with you, and then when you pulled yourself together, and began to talk, you came a very different man from the boy who had just triped; don’t you remember your stirring, inspirational words, the interupted applause you got?

• Oh yeah. Tell me again, it’s totally slipped my mind. I just keep coming back to slipping.I farted when I fell, didn’t I?

• Dr. Franklin usually got his full eight hours sleep, behind the coal bin as a lad, after his evening beating. America’s true self made Mr CinderFella. Lucky America. Lucky world. Good night. Sleep well, savour, now we know, you should be waking up smiling, unless you did not do one positive thing the previous day, hug a grandchild, shake hands with a lawyer, give a coin to a true pauper. Don’t beat the lad behind the coal bin. It could be one of us.

• Smile, pat him on the head, teach him to fish. Or computers. Can you just imagine Benjamin Franklin around a computer? He would be aquiver with excitement at what his electric rods had evolved to. Dr. Franklin said it well, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a fellow healthy, wealthy and wise. You know when you gotta get up, pup So hit the sack, Jack, eight hours before that. We live by the sun, hon; sleep by the moon, yon slaggard buffoon.

• And, in the ironies of life, the more essential nutrients we consume, and the more exercise regimens we put ourselves through, at a gentle pace, the more we keep our blood pumping and our heart pounding steadily and live healthily to old ages.

• Now, today, you can monitor yourself, read your biofeedback as you pratice meditating or deep breathing, which cause you to become closer to whom you are inside you, lungs pumping, heart pounding, sweat forming. Under the layers and cellulite. So, check out our new Pages Home Gym Essentials, and Healthy Supplements with their talks about how many cm’s of essential greens we need a day, fatty plant and fish oils and omegas, alphas, you know the lectures we hear but don’t quite meet. Our internal organs, as well as our ego-driven skin tone worries us more. And it is natural oils and soaps you need and they are here.

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And so to bed. Dr. Franklin says it will all end well in the end. I believe him.

Derek Dashwood

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