Is Quarantine Making Sleep Harder?

Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, more activities have been conducted online than ever before. The question is, is this increased exposure to artificial light affecting people’s sleep?

For some WUHS students, the answer is not so simple. “I fall asleep later, and I wake up later, but it feels a lot better for me since I don’t have to worry about alarms and when I wake up as much,” said WUHS Junior Allison Bradley.

Bradley says she gets 6-8 hours of sleep per night on average. Though the fact that she and Madison Niez were having a fully incomprehensible conversation over text at 5:30 this morning, seems to belie these claims.

Some WUHS students have been having more trouble sleeping, “SLEEP IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT, IT DOESN'T REALLY EXIST,” yelled our sleep deprived editor Maria Sell over text.

Meanwhile, WUHS Juniors Maeve Haff and Lilia McCullough rely on naps to keep them going. “I only go to sleep before 1am because of melatonin, I live by it,” said Haff, “Naps are incredible.”

“Naps are the best ever,” McCullough agreed.

Even Niez seems to favor a more laissez faire approach to sleep hygeine. “Sleep was designed to separate the weak from the strong, those who don’t sleep are the strongest of them all,” said Niez after waking up at 11am.

Regardless of whether or not increased exposure to artificial light is affecting their sleep or not, it is clear that my friends have poor sleep habits. Though I’m one to talk, seeing as I’m living on six hours of sleep.

“Molly is forgetful and forgets that sleep exists,” said Sell, “Molly needs more sleep.”

“Her best rants come late at night,” said Haff.

I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll take a page out of Maeve and Lilia’s books, and go take a nap.