Sleep Management Plan Author:Dale Hanson Bourke With the sensible exception of illness or pregnancy, many poor sleepers are just defeating themselves by insisting on the full eight hours of shuteye, says Bourke, founder of a Washington, D.C., magazine publishing company and author of You Can Make Your Dreams Come True (Revell, 1984). In a unique and personal narrative, she describes how she r... more »elearned her own sleep habits. She argues convincingly for altering sleep patterns and sleep times to fit the individual. Nobody should arise later in the morning or retire earlier at night than the body clock requires: if you are energetic and alert all day, you are getting enough sleep.« less