With around-the-clock activities, our 24/7 society can keep us from allocating enough time for sleep or puts us on irregular schedules. Feeling sleepy is a common experience that we have all felt at one time or another. Currently though, there are 20 million American shift workers who their livelyhoods depend on their sleep to be shifted. The body never adjusts to shift work. Working nontraditional schedules is a risk for on-the-job accidents and car crashes. It is often difficult to get qulaity sleep during the day and support form others is important. To help themselves adapt, shift workers can follow this sleep tips to creat a good sleep enviroment at home during non-working hours:

Avoid caffeine (coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate) and nicotine (cigarettes, tobacco products) close to bedtime

Avoid alcohol as it can lead to disruptive sleep

Exercise regularly, but complete your workout at least 3 hours before bedtime

Establish a regular relaxing, not alerting, bedtime routine (taking a bath or relaxing in a hot tub, reading, journaling)

Createa sleep-conducive enviroment that as dark, quiet and perferably cool and comfortable

Our change in society is affecting people in the way they are sleeping – sleep is very important and many people are just not getting enough quality time to recoup. In the past, darkness would naturally bring about a feeling that it was time to start ending the day, but in the 24/7 world we live in, people are taking every last minute to get more work done and staying up late to do more instead of getting rest.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Brontë