Does Sleep Deprivation Lead To Insanity?
Jason Rickard
One of the biggest misconceptions about sleep is that it if you
go for a couple of days with no sleep, you will end up losing
your sanity. Eye opening discoveries were made a few years ago,
and this has changed this great misunderstanding about sleep.
A man named Robert McDonald holds the world record for having
stayed up for almost nineteen days with no sleep. All that was
reported was extreme drowsiness, and intense difficulty with
concentration. Another person by the name of Randy Gardener
went without sleep for eleven days and again the same was
reported.
These cases cleared the biggest misconception about sleep,
which was that sleep deprivation leads to insanity. It is clear
that sleep deprivation does not lead to you losing your sanity
but in fact here is a really surprising fact for you. In a
recent study on over one million participants, it was
discovered that those who slept less, actually went on to live
a longer life. This excludes the extra time gained by sleeping
less.
In some cases, lack of sleep was reported as a major problem.
For example, many insomniacs experience hallucinations, slow
speech, movement, reactions and poor concentration. This
however does not confirm that lack of sleep can lead to
insanity. Hallucinations and other signs of lack of sleep
mentioned above are temporary and can be cured upon a good days
sleep.
One astonishing discovery made recently on the aspect of sleep
is that sleep interferes with memory. Memory has a very clear
link with sleep. An experiment conducted on individuals who had
not gone to sleep for nearly two days showed that their memory
retention on identifying individual faces was weak and
difficult for the subject. However the subjects were able to
distinguish familiar faces from the unfamiliar ones with a
positive outcome. This in some way can be the reason from
where, the false theory of insufficient sleep can lead to
insanity, may have been derived.
Many people today complain from the lack of sleep and blame
many of their health problems due to the insufficient sleep.
Experts argue that any association between sleep and health
problems almost always emerge weak at best and could without
difficulty be explained by other causes.
About The Author: Jason Rickard is the owner of Your Favourite
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