1. Since sleep is so important, we might wonder why people so often fail to get a sufficient amount of sleep. What factors do you think are most important in preventing people from getting enough
sleep?
2. What factors prevent you from getting enough sleep in your own life?
3. How could factors that prevent people from getting enough sleep be addressed? If you were
designing an intervention to promote healthy sleep, what would you try to do?
4. Some careers involve regular sleep deprivation (e. g., flight attendants and jet lag: doctors and
night shifts). How does learning about sleep deprivation change your opinion about these
careers? Should they be regulated in some way, and if so, how?