Why do I need sleep....?

Skipping one night's sleep makes a person cranky and clumsy. After missing two nights of sleep, a person will have problems thinking and doing things; his or her brain and body can't do their normal tasks nearly as well. After five nights without sleep, a person will hallucinate (this means seeing things that aren't actually there). Eventually, it becomes impossible for the brain to give its directions to the rest of the body without sleep - the brain needs to spend time in bed and catch its ZZZs!

***But is this really true..? Well if we look at sleep as a way where a person meditates and gets his/her energy back, can't it be possible for different individuals to achieve the same form of meditation through other tasks however mundane they. Is it not possible for people to increase their effeciency just by decreasing or maybe nullifying their sleeping habits.It has been observed that the more one goes without sleep the less sleepy he feels !! I have myself felt it, well to be totally true it also feels that life needs rest. It feels like u r the undead, well I guess thats just because the human community has never seen ppl prosper by jeopardising their sleep !!!

Lets turn ourselves to some brighter facts about sleep...

A lot of theories have been thrown up over the years as to what we need sleep for (to keep us wandering out of our caves and being eaten by sabertooth tigers, is one of the more entertaining possibilities), but noone has yet been able to point to a specific function of the sleep state that would explain why we have it and why we need so much of it.

Interestingly though sleep deprivation can be stopped using loads of caffiene, the person's thinking ability reaches new depths and also there are some parts of the brain which try to compensate for the sleep deprivation. Interestingly enough while a person takes a decision or answers a question he always thinks he is right even though he might know that he is wrong when he is deprived of sleep !!!

Another topic to discuss would be --- Does Sleep deprivation mimmic AGING ???
Well let us merely note that many people become more certain of their own opinions as they mature into wisdom. And we know from above that sleep deprived ppl think they r right more often than they r not, so does this lead to the funda of them feeling elderly ?? Thats pretty interesting ain't it ...

Also a brain when deprived of sleep shows utterly pathetic performances in the areas of Quantitaive as well as Verbal ability but surprisingly there is an increased activation in areas of the brain that are involved in sustained attention and error monitoring.

Though scientific studies have clearly with numerous experiments proved that sleeping is more than essential for a Human and his/her body but the question as to why it is necessary is still beyond doubt avoiding us !!!

P.S : I am not sure as to how this post would be recieved among junta but I myself love to dabble in this area...!! It is fun to sacrifice sleep sometimes and get that extra more from life...really give it a shot...!!

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