Well…are you?
If you want to know for sure, schedule a clinical sleep assessment. Option two is to ask yourself two simple questions Matthew Walker, PhD, director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science, poses in his famed book Why We Sleep.1
- After waking up in the morning, could you fall back asleep at ten or eleven a.m.?
*If the answer is “yes,” you are likely not getting sufficient sleep quantity and.or quality.
- Can you function optimally without caffeine before noon?
*If the answer is “no,” then you are most likely self-medicating your state of chronic sleep deprivation.
A third option towards identifying your sleep health is to complete an easy five question sleep questionnaire. I took it and recieved an ‘8 out of 10’ sleep health score. Looks like I have some work to do.
Click here to view the sleep questionnaire.
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1“Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin.” Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew P. Walker, Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018, pp. 35–35.