Disruptions in sleep of Students, particularly of the university level, have been a long known paradigm of the student life style which most see as a typical characteristic of youth.

However the underlining question is why does this lifestyle have such a correlation with Students of higher education?

On average a student habitually sleep for estimates of 6.8 hours a night, which may lead to problems in concentration, alertness, and the capacity of cognitive thinking.

Speculators suggest that because teenagers choose to live away from home, this gives them opportunities to remain awake for unpractical hours because of the absence of regulatory influences from family or legal guardians.

Others also attribute this peer pressure or “living the student life style” as an exponent for reasons why students allow little time for rest.

However some students have voiced this as crass generalisations of why students are developing erratic sleep patterns. Many contend that the level of stress and expectation for success is a factor that denies many students the required amount of sleep.

A student, Anna argues that “there are many different factors that really cause me to stay up as a relief from problems or because I just can’t physically sleep. Things like family trouble, debt problems with expenditures, pressure to achieve the highest results. These problems seem to pile up and give me little time to decompress. Such problems seem to overwhelm me, therefore I fixate on what I can’t do, and try to compensate by staying up”.

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