What are they influences that affect your sleeping patterns? Do you think you have a “sleep debt” to pay back?

Project description
After reading about sleep and consciousness and checking out some of the course materials and links you may be thinking about the amount and quality of sleep that you get. What are they influences that affect your sleeping patterns? Do you think you have a “sleep debt” to pay back?

Research on REM suggests that dreaming may be associated with learning and problem solving – what do you think of the research on REM and its possible connection with our conscious lives?