Sleep is
horrible and
wonderful at the same time. If
humans did not need to rest
periodically the knowledge in their mind would be roughly 33% increased, the
human race would become more
productive, and there would be fewer rooms to a house.
Sleeping,
on the other hand, can be
wonderful when a person feels extreme
exhaustion, but the horrible feeling of
waking counter balances the
ecstasy-like feeling sleep can cause.
Another reason I
despise sleeping is the maintenance required by the
action; preparing oneself for bed,
making the bed, getting
comfortable, and then making yourself fall asleep requires a
copious amount of time. And that time, I feel, can become the most boring point of a human's life.
My final and most
important reason for hating sleep is that most of us feel that we
Need to sleep in order to function the
next day. We feel that we
need to get into bed and force our mind's to enter another state of consciousness that I feel our mind does not want to be in. Do you blame the
mind?
Of course, the
brain needs sleep in order to sort out the
information obtained during the day, but my
conscience would rather be sitting at the computer, reading, or just generally using the time to
learn.
Supposedly, Leonardo Da Vinci would only sleep for ninety
minutes per day. Developing a normalcy for this minimal sleep, eventually, his mind adjusted. Therefore, we can hypothesize that his
lack of sleep could be the reason that made him one of the most
brilliant men who has ever existed.
A recent
study showed that the need to sleep is caused by
Seratonin levels in the brain. This chemical is what makes a human feel
tired. Although, we cannot take Seratonin in order to stay awake becauses
memory loss occurs when the brain is
deprived of sleep. But as studies progress, I believe that a "
cure" to sleep may be realized for those of us who would want one.