Tips I want to share for getting efficient sleep

When I was in china, during the final exam week each semester, I always felt time was so limited, and then sleep deprivation happened. Since we are now college students who have a lot of study pressure and also many social activities to attend in, I believe many students have the same situation as me. Today, I want to share you guys two useful ways to get high quality sleep: NAPS and CYCLE-SLEEP. It is really a magic for me, and I hope it can also work on you!

First, what is a cycle-sleep? According to researches, a sleep cycle contains four different stages each has different function to refresh our body when we are sleeping. In a cycle, we usually begin from stage 1 to stage 4 step by step, and then go back to stage 1 reversely. It always takes nearly 90 minutes for a person to run an entire cycle containing all those steps once. Studies show that people being disturbed by others when sleeping during a cycle will feel much more uncomfortable than being awake at the point of finishing a cycle. It means if you have 3 hours to sleep, and your friend has 4 hours, according to sleep-cycle theory, you are more lucky than your friend because you can have 2 entire cycle sleep but your friend will have 2 and another unfinished one! I have followed this way to sleep since I knew it, and it really helpful. I found sleeping just for 6 hours can make me feel more energetic than 7 hours during the daytime. And it is always easier for me to be waked by others at the time of finishing a sleep cycle.

The second way to survive from the lack of sleep is called powerful nap. An authoritative survey shows that among a cup of coffee, a pound of chocolate, and a 20munites nap, people who choose naps can regain the most energy than others who choose coffee, smoke or chocolate. In fact, many great people in history had already tried this way to keep energetic through hard working, like Da Vinci, Einstein and so on. So next time if you are planning to study or work for an entire day, taking a nap at noon can bring you effort halved and result doubled.

Ok, until now, as you see, with limited time, it is possible for you to get an efficient sleep using scientific strategies. If you face problems of sleep deprivation in the future, just think about taking cycle-sleep and naps!

Introduction~~my hometown suffers a lot

I am Yuji, born and educated in a small city called Urumchi in Xinjiang province, located in the most northwest part of china. Though my family moved into Shanghai City five years ago, I still believe Xinjiang is the harbour of my soul forever. Weather there is terrific: we can go skiing in winter and ride horses passing the prairie in summer. My hometown is also famous for various sweet fruits and delicious food. Moreover, there are 13 different minorities living in Xinjiang. We have quite different cultures and living habits from other chinese people, which make my hometown a very mysterious and popular place to travel.

In recent days, maybe some of you have already heard, a big rebellion from Uigur people breaks out in my hometown. On 5th, July, nealy 150 Han people including children and women died. And nearly 2000 buses and cars were burned at that day. Until now, there are still many different types of conflicts and rebellions keeping going on. In these two days, some Uigur people used syringes containing poisonous liquid to inject into passengers' bodies and then ran away, which caused 500 people who was injected into poisonous chemicals lying in the hospital. In order to prevent more Uigur people being incited to do harmful and unhumanitarian things, all websites have been closed in Xinjiang province from July, 5th to now. My friends living there tell me it is really an extraordinary period of time for most Urumchi citizen. Before this time, they could never imagine how life might be without internet, without phone and without message signals. Tragedies happened just around them unexpectedly. Though holding a very strong belief of Chinese goverment, they still feel too nervous to live life as usual. It will cost a very very long time for people in my hometown recovering from this hurtful strike.

Staying in the US, very far away from my hometown, I find it difficult to get truth of what happen now. All I can do is just hearing news from my friends, classmates, and relatives there. However, Urumchi, my hometown, is always on my mind. Every night, I pray for people there, and wish everything could be fine in the future and my hometown could recover from this tragedy as soon as possible.

Sometimes, it is very hard to tell right from wrong for people holding different standards with different backgrounds, especially from a historical perspective. However, if we just focus on the harmless people there in my hometown, you will find it is really easy to judge who is right and who is wrong in this affliction. All I want to say is, the Han people there should control their feelings and avoid the evolution of race confrontation. Peace and harmony is the most important thing for both Han and Uigur people.

God bless my hometown~~