Become Adult & Sleep Mistakes

At what point do we really become an adult? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says "27" is when we are finally really an adult. Plus sleep mistakes we make to derail our nights according to a sleep expert.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous deed. Well,
if there is ever a time when kids suddenly become
adults seems eighteen, Well, that's not really the case. Even
most eighteen year olds would agree. So when does life
get real? A new study of four generations boomers, gen X, millennials,
gen z's found their experience adulthood actually starts at twenty seven.

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You're paying all of your own bills, you're financially independent,
and you're putting your responsibilities over having fun. So if
you're paying your own insurance, you're laying the groundwork to
support yourself and your family in the future. You can
be trusted with a credit card, and you know how
to do laundry. Older folks sometimes poke fun at younger
generations for struggling with adulting, but forty two percent of

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people across all generations said they found that being an
adult is harder than they expected it to be. Seventy
one percent of Americans survey they believe that it's harder
today than it was even just ten years ago. How
would they know? There were never an adult both times.
Once you're an adult, you're an adult, right. However, for me,
my age suggests I'm an adult. My humor suggests I'm

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nine years old, and my body thought I died in
the Civil War. Deeper in the two, somebody talked to
a sleep expert and asked them to name the top
things that people are doing mistakingly. So what are the
top sleep mistakes people make? Here? They are according to
a sleep expert. First of all, not knowing how much
sleep you really need, we tend to underestimate it. In general,
seven to nine hours a night, but a varies person

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to person, So pay attention to how mood you are
and how hard it is to focus if you eat
too much or too little. Too much can cause things
like indigestion and heartburn, but feeling hungry at night can
also keep you up Screens before bed, put the phone down,
turn off the TV. The blue light is one reason
that much stimulation alone can keep you awake. Not winding down.
It's important to have at least thirty to sixty minutes

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of wind down time before you close your eyes. If
you nap too much, naps are fine, but try to
limit yourself that thirty minutes doesn't keep you up at night.
Spending too much time awake in bed is also bad
for you. More time you spend in bed not sleeping,
the more your body gets used to it. Not getting
enough sleep on weeknights, don't assume you can catch up
over the weekend. Sleeping in once in a while won't
completely make up for burning the candle at both ends

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Monday through Friday. Also inconsistent sleep schedules, our bodies have
a hard time adjusting. It's another reason that sleeping in
on the weekend is not ideal. Too much caffeine or alcohol.
Caffeine takes eight hours to metabolize, so a cup of
coffee at three pm could keep you up at ten pm,
and alcohol might make you feel tired, but you actually
get a worse night sleep. And worrying about sleep you

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can be a self fulfilling prophecy. You lie there worrying
about you won't fall asleep, so you don't so if
you need to get up for a while and try
again later, that's okay. But the best thing to do
is just try to relax. If you're not getting enough sleep,
you can get of this show on the iHeartRadio app.
Listen to those you're surely to sleep to me. They
can for another episode of deeper in the den, with

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dangerous Dave right here