Why do people need sleep?

 

This report identifies and explains the causes of sleep deprivation and the consequences that are associated with sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is caused by sleep disruption as a result of smart-phone use even during the night. Stress is another cause of sleep deprivation as most of the people have engaged in so many activities that are demanding and thus leaving them stressed up with life issues. This paper will therefore examine the functions of sleep to humans. In the next two weeks we will examine the various consequences and the recommendations to this sleep deprivation situation.

Situation

Sleep deprivation is a common and continuous situation that is affecting about 30% of the people and the percentage is increasing as days go by. Psychologically, sleep is important as it stabilizes the mind and helps the mind to rest and clear off the mind. Sleep has been regularly ignored by most of the people and they hardly think of sleep not until their minds and bodies have shut down. Sleep deprivation has thus occurred regularly as from one day to several nights when the person can no longer function due to brain shut down. According to a various researches, the researchers examined the role of sleep and they found growing evidence that demonstrated that sleep enhances the people to strengthen their memories and thus making them successful in their day to day operations.

Background

Research development in this area has been slow but recently there has been an increase in the sequence of interesting results that are giving potential researchers a new outlook into why people need to sleep and its functions to people. The rates at which most of the people while in business and at class are demonstrating inactiveness while still awake is increasing and this has raised concerns. The previous researches indicate that most of the people who fail to sleep adequately are often associated with poor performance since they are not able to concentrate fully with what they are doing as their minds have fatigue.

Causes

Stress can cause sleep deprivation thus resulting to a person’s inactiveness. Stress causes sleep disruption as one thinks of the various things that are troubling them, hence they spend part of their night trying to think of their troubles rather than sleeping. Most of the people also face the problem of sleep deprivation due to electronics devices such as mobile phones which switched on throughout the night while they are in bed and thus their sleep is disturbed. As they chat and follow the trending news through the various social media, they end up spending a larger part of sleep time on these electronic devices than in sleeping.

Effects

            Sleep being one of the basic human needs, when it is deprived there are serious health cost that are associated with sleep deprivation.  Lack of sleep makes a person to be bad-tempered as well as clumsy. As people lack sleep, they tend to have no sense of humor as they are tired and thus they tend to be emotionally detached thus causing them to become more awkward socially detached due to their bad temper. Thus, lack of sleep affects a person’s personality and also their sense of humor as they turn into being intolerable and irritable people.

            Persistent lack of sleep causes a person to be inactive in most part of the day and they are unable to work normally. As the mind is tired, the body coordination is hard and thus due to lack of sleep a person is unable to rest properly thus causing them to be inactive the following day.

            A person may as well start to hallucinate as the persons brains become shut down and thus they fail in giving the rest of the body directions. Going for several days without sleep may cause one to hallucinate as the brain fails to function as expected due to the fatigue that has accumulated over the days as sleep has been deprived.

 

 

Considerations

The required time to sleep is approximately eight hours at minimal as this will help to solve the issue of brain shutdown since the mind will be able to rest. It is important to consider the fact that health experts recommend a person to sleep for approximately eight hours. Eight hours of sleep in a total of 24 hours in a day is not much as compared to 16hours of staying awake and this cannot disrupt a person’s schedule as it is just a third of the total hours.

 

 

Recommendation

It is thus recommended that sleep should not be ignored but rather it should be equally treated as a basic need and this will make us healthier and even more active. Therefore, people should be able to sleep early at night and ensure that they avoid any form of distraction so that they can get enough sleep before waking up early the following day.

 

 

Yours sincerely,