Carrie: Sleep deprivation is when you get less than the recommended amount of sleep, so say eight hours per night for an adult, maybe nine to 10 hours per younger person. So sleep deprivation would be when you get less than the optimum amount of sleep. I don't get enough sleep because I have children. They require a lot of my time.

I also have to get very, very early for one child at 6:00 AM. Then, of course, there up until 9:00 or 10:00 at night, and I would like an hour or so of me time before I go to bed, so that keeps me up later and later. But honestly, it's just the fact that I look at my phone before I go to bed.

Annaliase: I feel sleep deprived a couple times a week, just because of juggling a job and school, things like that.

Kayla: Some of the reasons I don't get enough sleep, I'm on the phone or I'm binge watching or I get off work late, so when I get off I'm just kind of up. I don't want to go to sleep even though I need to.

Tyler: I was sleep deprived in my very first semester because it was just a total change from high school to college. The change of it put a lot of stress on me, and it just made me, like, not going to sleep. And that caused me to fall back on homework. And I just had a bad start because of it. I learned from my experience. I don't want to repeat that. I want to stay away from sleep deprivation for sure.

Kayla: When I don't get enough sleep, I feel tired for the most part. I don't have any motivation to really do anything. It's just like another day, great. I don't look forward to it sometimes to go out, go to work, go to school.

Carrie: Like my eyelids are heavy, that my feet are heavy, that I am slower to move. I feel sluggish. You know, my get up and go is gone. And I really don't feel motivated to kind of do the things I need to do. So I don't do them. I know that I could be paying more attention in class, but sleep deprivation robs my focus.

Annaliase: I definitely don't realize the extent of sleep deprivation's effects on me until something bad happens or something bad nearly happens that I realized that I could have taken proper precautions to prevent a particular thing from happening by just simply paying attention and being more alert.

Tyler: Sleep is the number one most important thing. When you're not getting enough of it, you're not getting what your body fully needs.