KE staff members share their sleep habits

No matter how much sleep I obtain, I’m always exhausted; if I sleep 14 or 4 hours it feels like I’ve slept the same amount. My sleep routine on school nights varies depending on homework and school activities and during the weekend, I tend to go to sleep later because I know I can (usually) sleep in. My intent for when I go to sleep is always early, but somehow even when I don’t have anything an...

As a junior midway through what is said to be the most stressful year in high school, I tend to take my sleep pretty seriously. Every night, I hope to get ready for bed at around 10:30ish. This means that I will try to get a decent 7 hours of sleep every weekday. On some occasions, I get distracted by my phone and end up spending a decent amount of my time browsing Twitter. I always try to limit my screen...

My sleep routine is simple. I try to go to bed at 10:00 PM, spend a few minutes on my phone beforehand, and then spend thirty or so minutes staring at my ceiling whilst contemplating the futility of life until I finally fall asleep. One night while I was reflecting on humanity’s endless battle with existential questions, I actually thought of the cure for cancer, but I fell asleep before I could wr...

I’d say that I’m probably on the far end of unhealthy on the spectrum of sleep habits. Having ADHD and getting distracted easily are things I’ve always struggled with, and when these qualities mingle with severe procrastination, it makes getting to sleep far from easy. A mere thought can turn into hours of contemplation, and I’m not saying my insomnia is due to having a phone but, it just ...

Sleep. Like most things, I’m pretty bad at it. I’m one of those people who can function pretty well without getting that much Zzzs, and since I once pulled two all-nighters in a row, my sleep schedule has been kind of messed up ever since. Typically, I can only sleep 3 or 4 hours at a time. I have to get up in between and then go back to bed, so it’s a bit of a process. I have a lot of bizarr...

Before I go to sleep, I say my bedtime prayers. I go to bed by 10:30 p.m. almost every night—even on weekends. By going to bed early, I make up for the time I lose due to waking up early. That way, I don’t lose productivity by getting less sleep the previous night. Although, no matter how early I go to bed, I’ll feel sleepy if I need to wake up before 8 a.m. on any day. If there are tests or ...

Every night, I hop into bed with a heating pad and two blankets. I play music and have a timer that turns it off after 20 minutes. I find that I always want to stay up late so I can take full advantage of my time to relax but then I, in turn, am extremely tired the next day. I usually get into bed around 10 and stay up watching Netflix or am on my phone until 11:30 and wake up at 6:50 which gives me ...

I always go to bed before eleven, but if I don’t, I have to stay up a few more hours. Since crashing after midnight will make me cranky anyway, I decide to fill up as much time as possible before hitting peak exhaustion. One day I hope to pull a super productive all-nighter. But for now, I sit on my top bunk and stare into the void that is my bedroom door and interrupt myself with mindless internet s...

Seeing as I’m currently typing this at around midnight central time, I think it's safe to say that my sleep schedule isn’t as great as it could be. With the daily pressures of school, extracurriculars, family, and friends, it can be easy to let sleep maintain its place at the bottom of my list of priorities. However, my concentration and productivity are noticeably affected when I attempt to func...