What happens if you don't sleep
Sleeping eight hours a day is very important for our psychophysical well-being. Lack of sleep, in fact, can cause stress, poor concentration, aggression, nervousness, hallucinations and other even more serious damage.
Let's find out together what are the consequences of lack of sleep and try to run for cover! If your baby is unable to sleep, watch this video instead:
What happens if you don't sleep: the brain fatigues and gets damaged
If we don't sleep, our brains will have a harder time functioning efficiently. The brain needs energy in order to be performative to the maximum and, if it is deprived of the necessary rest, it will have to make up for it with excessive effort.
Lack of sleep, in the long run, could lead to serious damage to the same neurons that need at least 8 hours of sleep a day to function properly. Cell renewal itself could fail without the necessary energy, accelerating the death of brain cells and slowing down their replacement.
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Not sleeping leads to memory problems
Both short-term and long-term memory are affected if you don't sleep. The lack of rest makes us no longer able to store information, even for a temporary period and a first manipulation. As a result, we will no longer remember things that have just been said to us, our reflexes will be slowed down and our concentration will suffer a drastic drop.
In the long term, however, lack of sleep prevents the brain from consolidating acquired information, thus preventing us from remembering new or newly learned things.
What happens if you don't sleep? A sharp drop in attention
Fatigue is the number one enemy of concentration. Impossible to think that you can keep your attention active if you haven't slept enough. Lack of sleep prevents us from being receptive to external stimuli. Working becomes almost impossible, as well as making conversation without having to ask the other to repeat it over and over again!
Without sleep, the ability to plan is lost
If you don't get enough sleep, you are no longer able to plan anything. Our brain will be in serious trouble and will no longer be able to give itself schedules and priorities, constantly stopping without being able to reach a decision.
We therefore end up acting automatically. Autopilot is started and off you go! So here we are unable to reprogram, to be flexible, to understand what is best for us at a certain time or in a certain situation ... It is certainly better never to be in a similar situation!
If you don't sleep, your perception of risk decreases
Not sleeping can be very dangerous for ourselves and for those around us. In fact, lack of sleep drastically decreases our perception of risk.
There are many accidents caused by attention disturbances due to lack of sleep, especially if you drive. The inattention caused by fatigue could seriously endanger a driver and those he meets on his way ...
What happens if you don't sleep: hallucinations and aggression
As a consequence of the lack of sleep there is a state of aggression, nervousness and anxiety that could result in anguish, disorientation, paranoia and even hallucinations! Better to immediately try to run for cover if you suffer from insomnia ...
Intano, here are the most suitable foods against fatigue:
