Every day a person finds he or she has more work with less time to do that work, but is sacrificing the sleep worth it? Sleep is an important aspect of life and without it one will find uncomfortable and eventually unbearable consequences. Although some may believe that they have the ability to train their bodies to require less sleep, it is impossible. The body needs sleep to regenerate certain parts of the body, especially the brain. After periods of time with little to know sleep one will know immediate side-effects of the brain not being able to restore and repair it’s own neurons (Lancaster, 2008).The brain is one of the most complex and least understood things in the world and without sleep there can be severe damage to this. Cognitive ability and behavior, including arousal, attention, cognitive speed, memory, emotional intelligence, and decision making all can be affected within just 16 hours of not getting sleep (Basner, 2015). It has been shown that nearly two-thirds of
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Some of the long term effects of sleep deprivation can lead to things including: high blood pressure, obesity, heart attack, stroke, depression, other mood disorders, poor quality of sleep, and even overall poor quality of life (Thomas & Song, 2000). There have been numerous cases around the world of the dangerous effects of sleep deprivation. One specific case involves a 51-year-old man getting a great lack of sleep ending to his death.
“In one tragic case, a 51-year-old man abruptly began to lose sleep. After sinking deeper and deeper into an exhausted stupor, he developed a lung infection and died. An autopsy showed that he had lose almost all the large neurons in two areas of the thalamus that have been linked to sleep and hormonal circadian rhythms” (Travis & Wade,
Some of the long term effects of sleep deprivation can lead to things including: high blood pressure, obesity, heart attack, stroke, depression, other mood disorders, poor quality of sleep, and even overall poor quality of life (Thomas & Song, 2000). There have been numerous cases around the world of the dangerous effects of sleep deprivation. One specific case involves a 51-year-old man getting a great lack of sleep ending to his death.
“In one tragic case, a 51-year-old man abruptly began to lose sleep. After sinking deeper and deeper into an exhausted stupor, he developed a lung infection and died. An autopsy showed that he had lose almost all the large neurons in two areas of the thalamus that have been linked to sleep and hormonal circadian rhythms” (Travis & Wade,