We spend about 8 hours a day sleeping. For a lifetime - up to 25 years! Is it possible to live without sleep? What happens to our (or our) body when we stay awake for too long? See for yourself!
Relax, we don't need to sleep for 8 hours a day. For some, less sleep is enough - but the most important thing is to get some well-deserved rest each day. If you get up more tired than you fall asleep, then you are at odds with sleep hygiene. Have you eaten before going to sleep? Or maybe you drank alcohol? In order to rest during sleep, you should lie down on an empty stomach - then the body actually rests, and no longer digests.
But let's go back to what happens when we stay awake for too long. The reaction time slows down, we become more irritable, libido decreases, the ability to concentrate decreases, changes even reach the immune system - the risk of infection increases. Scientists have repeatedly studied what happens to the body when we are awake. How did they do it? Well, a lot depends on who and whom was researching. For example, in Russia, tests were carried out on political prisoners who had been stimulated with gas. The subjects did not survive … But not because they were killed, but because they went crazy. Lack of sleep drove them crazy, there was self-mutilation, mutual attacks …
But there were also less drastic experiments. All of them proved that sleep is necessary and we cannot function normally without it. It is easier for people who are sleepy to cause a road accident. Not only that, they are distracted and may have memory problems. Eye pain, redness, photophobia and headache may appear. If the period without sleep is prolonged, muscle and joint pains appear, the person loses control, the ability to distinguish colors, hallucinations may appear.
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Fun fact :The record holder for sleep deprivation is Tony Wright - he underwent a medical experiment and did not sleep for 266 hours.