To sleep,
perchance to dream
ASTOD RADERMACHER
staff writer
Loves thrives on energy. Relationships
need energy to stay active and healthy. Mon
strous problems fade to molehills with en
ergy.
The major cause of energy loss is sleep
deprivation. Without enough sleep, you be
come lazy, apathetic, forgetful, and irritable.
No one likes constantly tired people, so you
are left feeling lonely and unloved, thereby
lowering your self-worth, and, eventually,
leading to depression.
Without enough sleep, your immune
system is weakened. Your body has trouble
fighting infec
tions and viruses
leading to con
stant colds, that
general icky
feeling that pre
cedes sickness,
and sickness it
self. This leads
to missed classes
and falling behind in homework. Now, not
only are you alone (evryone is avoiding your
nonexistent-energy-self), failing your
classes, and feeling terrible, you have no
idea what caused your situation. You under
estimated the importance of sleep.
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Sleep restores energy. During sleep,
your body is believed to build proteins and
restore the brain's and nervous system's con
trol over body systems. In his book, Sleep,
J. Allan Hobson theorizes that during sleep
"we reinforce our learning of significant
information...We recall and we imagina
tively enact in our dreams."
Getting enough sleep is just the begin
ning, however.
In Natural Sleep , authors Goldberg and
Kaufman remark that the saying, "Early to
bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,
wealthy, and wise," definitely has merit.
Johns, Dudley, and Masterson of Australian
University have found that "better academic
"Many people sacrifice their
sleeping hours forfinsihing
homework, only to regret it the
next day."
worth two after."
Sleep is one of the most important in
stinctive behaviors that humans have. Many
people sacrifice their sleeping hours for fin
ishing homework, only to regret it the next
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Astrid, unfortunately, doesn't practice what she preaches
performance as a
medical student
has been shown
to be related to
early morning
awakening." Au
thor Henry
Fielding be
lieved that "one
hour's sleep be
fore midnight is
day. "it affected me the rest of the week,"
Jennie Craigie remembers. "I was trying to
catch up on that night, so the rest of my work
that week really suffered " People know,
but forget, that doing work while exhausted
does not produce quality.
"Five o' clock is a bad time to be awake,
" Martin Davis remarked dryly. Hayden
Tatman relates: "After 30 to 36 hours of no
sleep, everything was sort of pink and rosy.
But all my homework from that time
was...oh...OUCH...really bad."
It is not hard to get enough sleep; the
simple act of going to bed at midnight means
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eight hours of sleep before 8 a.m.
Lack of sleep produces creative coping
strategies, "one time when I didn't get
enough sleep, I went to class with my paja
mas on," Kelly White said. "It made the tran
sition to the waking world much easier."
Imagine how nice life would be if we
never felt our heads nodding over the com
puter, wondering if the keys would make a
soft pillow. I have never heard anyone say
that they hate sleeping. So why does no one
get enough when it is so beneficial?
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