What Is The Importance Of Sleep Deprivation

What makes sleep such a necessity for the average person Why do we need to lay in one spot for at least seven hours and be completely idle during this time? Consciously, we don’t have any goals we are striving to achieve and we don’t have agendas to keep all of our plans during the night organized, however, subconsciously, a lot more is happening than most people are aware of. As long as a person is classified as living, their body is always at work, especially while that person is sleeping. When the quality and/or duration of sleep is jeopardized, such as during sleep deprivation, so are all the processes that take place during the dormant part of someone 's life. Sleep deprivation creates a toll on more than just alertness or the amount of …show more content…
To get a basic understanding of sleep, you can think of it as any janitorial service for any building or company. They come to clean up the place and clear out any filthy debris and get a place ready for the next day. Sleep is able to clean up our brains from all the debris from the past day that had accumulated, and there is a lot considering all your debris from your body end up in your brain (almost the same way that a filter in a fish tank works). When sleep is jeopardized, your brain doesn’t get a good “spring cleaning” everyday which, if continued, can cause more hazardous “junk” to form in your brain, which can lead to more serious health risk later in your life related to the brain such as Alzheimer 's disease. The clean-up crew that comes while you sleep is most likely the reason that you feel refreshed and ready for the next day, which is why when people are tired and didn’t get enough sleep they may feel down and more sluggish because they are still partially carrying the mental weight from the other days. Sleep is important in more ways than most can imagine, the possibilities are limitless and I will only be able to make a dent into the awareness of …show more content…
Think about the hours of sleep you need to get as the monthly bill you get in the mail for your electricity or plumbing. And then think about the actual amount of sleep that you get being the money that you make from your job. The bill that you get in the mail is made out for a certain amount of money depending on the activities that you have done and the resources that you have used from the company which you have to pay back otherwise you fall into debt. Once you fall into debt you have to pay back anything you have owed the company in the past but on top of that you still have to pay for the monthly bill. In order to catch up with the overwhelming debt that you are in you have to work more in order to make more money. If you aren’t able to make up for all the expenses your credit starts to drop and you start to lose the the amenities since you aren’t able to pay for them anymore and you are too far behind to catch up at that moment in time. That is the same idea for sleep because you have to sleep a certain amount of hours a night and that depends on your activities during the day in addition to some other factors such as your weight. Once you start to fall into debt, you become sleep deprived and a lot of your motor functions and senses weaken and become harder to keep running and you won’t be able to restore them