Note to Readers: Editorial Sequence

Editorial note to readers: Normally, a writer should group related ideas together, by, for example, placing all the health warnings up front. I prefer to distribute some of the ideas instead.

Grouping makes it too easy to skip ahead to the “good stuff,” as it were, whereas I want to keep exposing readers to the important information, such as health warnings, and make it harder to avoid them.

If you’d rather not keep these various issues in mind simultaneously and deal with them, you shouldn’t embark on this course.

Random Pages

Random-page links are offered on some pages. The random order was set in advance. Thus, the order is now predictable, can be viewed in many browsers by looking in the source code for various pages, and generally probably is not useful independently of its purpose. It was set in advance mostly by using a spreadsheet program that has a function for randomly assigning numbers and those numbers were applied to a list of pages. This simplified the programming of this website, keeps page loading relatively fast (because specialized additional programming does not have to be loaded), reduces my website maintenance burden, and likely still provides a surprise for some visitors to this website by exposing unexpected pages for their consideration.

Websites of Interest

These websites have some interesting content, although I disagree with some of it:

Health advice from reliable sources favoring normal sleep:

What Are Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency?, from National Institutes of Health

Sleep Tips: 7 Steps to Better Sleep, from the Mayo Clinic

Consequences of Insufficient Sleep, from Harvard Medical School

“Eat, Sleep and Move” Campaign Success Includes Fun with Family and Friends, from the United States Army

Other reliable sources:

How to Fake a Good Night’s Sleep, from Health.com and CNN, a journalistic broadcaster; the story has tips on making do with less sleep

25 Random Facts about Sleep, from National Sleep Foundation, an organization with several physicians on its Board of Directors

The Factor Of Sleep In Training., from a bodybuilding business, with some of its information coming from a physician

15 Things You Should Know About Sleep, from a journalism source citing medical and other sources

Poor Sleep Has Social Causes and Consequences, by a sociology professor

9 Fun Facts About Sleep, from Encyclopaedia Britannica

Opinions, probably from laity:

Relax! You’ll Be More Productive, an opinion piece partly on naps and rest

40 Amazing Facts About Sleep: 40 Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn’t Know... (Or Were Too Tired To Think About), from the National Sleep Research Project, hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corp., a journalism source

Wellness Center Relaxation and Sleep Information, from Midwestern State University

How Much Sleep Does a Person Need?, from Tuck, saying that people tend to claim getting more sleep than they actually get and that only a little over two thirds of Americans get enough sleep

Other information:

Research on Sleep and REM, by an undergraduate student

The Guide to Sleeping in Airports

(Sources: All except one of the links to these websites of interest were as accessed April 3, 2016, the exception being the link to Tuck, which was accessed February 25 or 26, 2017.)