There are 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week, 730 hours in a month, and 8760 hours in a year, and on average we sleep 2920 of those hours which equals 121.7 days we spend asleep out of each year. Why do people waste so much time on sleep when they could be doing more with the time they have? Time is limited, but people don’t realize how important sleep actually is. Getting a good night 's rest is crucial to one 's physical and mental health. There are so many amazing benefits that sleep offers humans bodies and minds, it does not only improves health, it also improves things such as memory, grade and performance, also sharpens attention. Without a good night 's sleep these factors aren 't improving they’re being negatively affected.
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“Almost all physical and psychological problems are connected to sleep in one way or other” (Joseph 1). If people get an average of 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night their bodies are able to build up it immune system to make it strong and better at fighting off illness which helps prevent people from getting sick. Everyone’s health is important and bodies were created to fix itself, people just have to supply it with what it need to be able to do so such as sleep.
Lack of sleep can cause individuals to have mood swings and behavioral problems (Davis 1). Without sleep peoples mood could change as quick as a flip of a light switch. When people are around them they might feel as if they are walking on eggshells trying not to upset them. Without sleep humans become very irritable. Although when people actually get the full amount of sleep that the body needs, people become much more enjoyable to be around and are much happier throughout the course of the day. This happens because people eventually become sleep deprived, when they’re sleep deprived they become very hostile. It their bodies way of communicating with them letting them know they need sleep to be able to heal itself to feel
“Almost all physical and psychological problems are connected to sleep in one way or other” (Joseph 1). If people get an average of 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night their bodies are able to build up it immune system to make it strong and better at fighting off illness which helps prevent people from getting sick. Everyone’s health is important and bodies were created to fix itself, people just have to supply it with what it need to be able to do so such as sleep.
Lack of sleep can cause individuals to have mood swings and behavioral problems (Davis 1). Without sleep peoples mood could change as quick as a flip of a light switch. When people are around them they might feel as if they are walking on eggshells trying not to upset them. Without sleep humans become very irritable. Although when people actually get the full amount of sleep that the body needs, people become much more enjoyable to be around and are much happier throughout the course of the day. This happens because people eventually become sleep deprived, when they’re sleep deprived they become very hostile. It their bodies way of communicating with them letting them know they need sleep to be able to heal itself to feel