Your life without sleep
What would happen if you stopped sleeping?

Wake up! Are you late again , sometimes we wish we never had to deal with this morning struggle, but what if you just never went to bed? What if you figured out how to keep yourself awake forever. How long could this sleeplessness forever last? Could you even be productive without recharging every night. When would your friends start telling you to get some rest, and what exactly would happen to your body. What would happen if you stopped sleeping? How often have you needed just a few more hours to finish off a project, get ready for a date or enjoy your day off. If you took sleep out of your daily routine you'd have all 24 hours of the day to do everything you never had time for. The amounts of projects and activities you could do, or get done. The time would seem endless if you ask me. Like a never ending clock that just keeps going 24 hrs- after 24hrs! What's a few yawns and some minor tiredness if it meant you never had to waste any more time lying in bed for no good reason. Turns out there are plenty of good reasons to sleep, and for me I would never want to waste my sleep! The average person spends 1/3 of their life lying in bed eyes shut snoring away. Sounds like a waste of valuable time, but not for your body while you sleep your body releases hormones and repairs tissues replacing your old cells with new lights. If you worked out that day you need a good sleep to let your muscles grow and your fat burn. So, what happens if you don't sleep. Not much at first after just 24 hours you'd feel completely fine in fact you'd feel better than fine that's because sleeplessness stimulates the mesolimbic pathway in your brain this pathway would release dopamine and you'd feel happy and full of energy, but don't be fooled by all that happiness it's not gonna last long. Soon after reaching the 24 hour mark all your reactions would slow down your brain would start to forget what you were doing outwardly you'd appear to be drunk. Wait where were we , right now what about two days of that sleep at that point. Your body would start shutting down. It would stop metabolizing glucose properly leaving you with no energy supply, you'd start looking very pale your eyes would turn red and then more bad news your wrinkles would become more visible on day three that's when the real fun begins. Hallucinations starved of REM sleep your brain would bring all your dreams and nightmares to life. And around the 72-hour mark you'd start breaking down your own protein that would affect your muscles, so say goodbye to all that muscle mass you've worked so hard to build up. Your body would keep using up all the energy sources, are confined glucose leftovers your muscles fat tissue after about two weeks your immune system would be so weak you could die from the common flu . Eventually three weeks after your last sleep you'd probably die of a heart attack. If you've got a little extra muscle or fat on your body you could stay alive just a bit longer but we don't recommend anyone try this at home. Anyway, so grab yourself a pillow and take a nap if it seems like you're always tired make sure you're getting the prescribed six to eight hours of sleep per night. I don't know about you but, I am not considering losing my sleep anytime soon.
About the Creator
Michelle Hagen
Hi all! Blogger here! I use to love to blog all the time and have moved over to wanting to write articles! Follow me along on my journey here!


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