Eating Disorders: The Effects Of Sleeping On The Brain

Sleeping is not just something most people like doing, it’s needed for everyone in order to function correctly and to the fullest potential. People all around the world unintentionally deprive themselves of sleep due to not knowing the right amount that is needed day to day. Scientists around the world have done studies of people while they’re asleep and discovered what exactly happens to us while we are asleep and how it affects our day to day responsibilities and abilities. When one is sleeping, the brain is always thought to be sleeping too, because well, that would just make since. That is not the case though, while our bodies are asleep, our brains are hard at work processing, restoring, and strengthening our memories and things that we learned throughout the day. While our bodies are at rest, the brain shuts off signals to our limbs making itself …show more content…
Bad decisions and or being fatigued are examples of the side effects that oversleeping could have on a person. There is no real ‘reason’ why a person needs to sleep, but there are millions of things that could happen if a person doesn’t sleep; including …show more content…
The first stage of sleep is light sleep. This stage happens right after a person starts to fall asleep. Eyes begin to move slower and muscles begin to become less active. We go through ‘Alpha and Theta’ which is a stage of dreaminess sort of like day dreaming. Daydreaming is something that most people think of as something that happens during the day, but that normally will only happen if the person is depriving their brain of sleep. In this stage, it is unlikely that a person will have weird sensations or feelings that they are falling off of something. This is the stage when a person is losing their ability to pay attention fully and start to hear things less