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Posted on Dec 6, 2016

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Why you should be going to sleep instead of getting triggered by these gifs

by dozenuts

Community Contributor

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I love sleep. You love sleep. We all love sleep. But do you get enough of it?

A young adult needs around 8 hours of sleep to operate at MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY.

Unfortunately for us, most university students are sleep deprived, as 70.6% of students reported obtaining less than 8 hours of sleep. Honestly though i'm not even studying, one minute this small video comes up and then next minute i'm binge watching all 16 seasons.

University students are not aware of the extent to which sleep deprivation negatively affects them.

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Not getting enough sleep can result in high levels of stress.

A notable example is the UNSW Optometry course where 7 finals and 55 hours of uni a week means many sleepless nights causing many students to end up breaking down in tears.

Accompanying these mental breakdowns are restless nights of sleep where students reported that they wake up screaming from nightmares "No Dr Junghans NotLikeThis"

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So if you're having mental breakdowns every 2 days it is no surprise this can affect your marks.

Eighty-two percent of university students believe that inadequate sleep and sleepiness impact their school performance.

Students who obtained more sleep (long sleepers, ≥9 hours) had higher GPAs than short sleepers (≤6 hours): GPAs were 3.24 vs 2.74 on average, respectively.

Each hour delay in weekday or weekend rise time decreased the GPA by 0.132/4.0 and 0.115/4.0, respectively

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conservatively estimates that 100,000 police-reported crashes are the direct result of driver fatigue each year.

This results in an estimated 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries, and $12.5 billion in monetary losses. These figures may be the tip of the iceberg aka our source may have pulled them out of nowhere, since currently it is difficult to attribute crashes to sleepiness.