Why couldn’t Dracula’s wife fall asleep? Because of his coffin.
Does anybody here know why we sleep?
The only commonality we can all agree on, is that getting enough sleep we feel like Sméagol and not getting enough sleep we feel and look like golem.
Not getting enough sleep is known as sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a medical term for a sufficient lack of restorative sleep over a cumulative period so as to cause physical or psychiatric symptoms and affect routine performances of tasks.
I am a victim of sleep deprivation and I don’t like the effects caused by not getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation can be scary, changing you as a person and over time causing physical and emotional damage to your mind, body and heart.
Like me, almost 90% of the students in this room is sleep deprived according to HRF. In the modern world opportunities are very slim and not getting ahead or keeping with the pace of society, you fall behind and it’s hard to keep up. The thought of slacking off alone, and falling behind is more painful than living day to day on low energy because the certainty of your life becomes smaller. In the modern world it seems that sleep is more of a luxury.
Sleep Deprivation is very harmful and today I will make you want to sleep get enough. The most sleep deprived people are college students. According to an MIT survey, college students sleep on average 6 and a half hours a night. In reality that sleep time is much less because of alcohol, caffeine and being stressed about thinking about being stressed about a test. Following college students are hardworking people. Focusing on college students, the effect of sleep deprivation lowers students potential to learn, understand and be educated. …show more content…
The reason is because the brain works best when it gets rest. During sleep the brain organizes information learned throughout the day and strengthen memories, forms new memories or build on memories. The process of good sleep makes it easy to recall information learned because of how neatly your brained organized information. Whereas when you don’t get sufficient sleep your brain just puts information somewhere like putting paper on a messy desk. When trying to find or recall certain information, it’s difficult to recall like finding a specific paper on a messy desk, which is why forgetfulness is an effect in the short term. The brain also performs well, as a result to damage brain cells being rejuvenated and repaired in correlation to how well you sleep. In the long term this effect causes physical brain damage. Lastly, throughout the day, toxic proteins fill up in the brains tissue. While sleeping the brain is washes these toxic proteins away like a dishwasher with cerebrospinal fluid. Would you take a plate out the dishwasher before it finished and use it? Furthermore, our thoughts and feelings come from our brain, the limbic system and the secretion of hormones from various glands throughout the body in concert with the heart. Being sleep deprived releases unfavorable hormones. The reason for this is because the function of the endocrine system is to regulate metabolic functions of the body. If the body is tired, then the endocrine system will do what it needs to keep the body and organs running as best as it can. The result of this is the release of cortisol and epinephrine. Cortisol is a stress hormone and epinephrine is an adrenaline hormone, and when elevated in the blood due to chronic sleep deprivation, it reduces neurotransmitters in the brain such as dopamine and serotonin, thus making the subject anxious, depressed, feeling empty emotionally and causing a cognitive decline. In addition this also causes extreme irritability, anger and feelings of fear. On the flipside, when you get enough sleep you replenish testosterone used up throughout the day and the body releases growth hormones, these together boost individual’s libido making you more enthused, confident, good attitude and more easy going amongst peers. The biggest problem about not getting enough sleep, is that over time, all of the needed processes skipped due to sleep deprivation, puts more work on individuals hearts. As a result this increases risk of heart disease. A Study done by the University of Toronto linked 73%
Does anybody here know why we sleep?
The only commonality we can all agree on, is that getting enough sleep we feel like Sméagol and not getting enough sleep we feel and look like golem.
Not getting enough sleep is known as sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a medical term for a sufficient lack of restorative sleep over a cumulative period so as to cause physical or psychiatric symptoms and affect routine performances of tasks.
I am a victim of sleep deprivation and I don’t like the effects caused by not getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation can be scary, changing you as a person and over time causing physical and emotional damage to your mind, body and heart.
Like me, almost 90% of the students in this room is sleep deprived according to HRF. In the modern world opportunities are very slim and not getting ahead or keeping with the pace of society, you fall behind and it’s hard to keep up. The thought of slacking off alone, and falling behind is more painful than living day to day on low energy because the certainty of your life becomes smaller. In the modern world it seems that sleep is more of a luxury.
Sleep Deprivation is very harmful and today I will make you want to sleep get enough. The most sleep deprived people are college students. According to an MIT survey, college students sleep on average 6 and a half hours a night. In reality that sleep time is much less because of alcohol, caffeine and being stressed about thinking about being stressed about a test. Following college students are hardworking people. Focusing on college students, the effect of sleep deprivation lowers students potential to learn, understand and be educated. …show more content…
The reason is because the brain works best when it gets rest. During sleep the brain organizes information learned throughout the day and strengthen memories, forms new memories or build on memories. The process of good sleep makes it easy to recall information learned because of how neatly your brained organized information. Whereas when you don’t get sufficient sleep your brain just puts information somewhere like putting paper on a messy desk. When trying to find or recall certain information, it’s difficult to recall like finding a specific paper on a messy desk, which is why forgetfulness is an effect in the short term. The brain also performs well, as a result to damage brain cells being rejuvenated and repaired in correlation to how well you sleep. In the long term this effect causes physical brain damage. Lastly, throughout the day, toxic proteins fill up in the brains tissue. While sleeping the brain is washes these toxic proteins away like a dishwasher with cerebrospinal fluid. Would you take a plate out the dishwasher before it finished and use it? Furthermore, our thoughts and feelings come from our brain, the limbic system and the secretion of hormones from various glands throughout the body in concert with the heart. Being sleep deprived releases unfavorable hormones. The reason for this is because the function of the endocrine system is to regulate metabolic functions of the body. If the body is tired, then the endocrine system will do what it needs to keep the body and organs running as best as it can. The result of this is the release of cortisol and epinephrine. Cortisol is a stress hormone and epinephrine is an adrenaline hormone, and when elevated in the blood due to chronic sleep deprivation, it reduces neurotransmitters in the brain such as dopamine and serotonin, thus making the subject anxious, depressed, feeling empty emotionally and causing a cognitive decline. In addition this also causes extreme irritability, anger and feelings of fear. On the flipside, when you get enough sleep you replenish testosterone used up throughout the day and the body releases growth hormones, these together boost individual’s libido making you more enthused, confident, good attitude and more easy going amongst peers. The biggest problem about not getting enough sleep, is that over time, all of the needed processes skipped due to sleep deprivation, puts more work on individuals hearts. As a result this increases risk of heart disease. A Study done by the University of Toronto linked 73%