The Sleep Experiment

The Prompt

Design a personal experiment that explores some aspect of your own sleep. You might systematically vary sleep duration, nap timing, pre-sleep routines, or sleep environment over at least one week, while tracking a measurable outcome — reaction time, mood, memory performance, or physical performance. Document your methodology, control for confounds as best you can, and analyze your results in light of at least one major theory of sleep function.

Completion Criteria

A written experimental report documenting at least seven days of systematic observation, with a clear independent variable, at least one tracked outcome measure, an honest account of confounds and limitations, and an interpretation that references at least one theory of sleep function (memory consolidation, synaptic homeostasis, or glymphatic clearance).

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