WHY SLEEP?
Nov 14, 2000 -
© Kerrin Leon White
having separate needs for NREM and REM sleep--that must be made up, at least in part, after sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a very widespread phenomenon in our time and society, as people try to stretch themselves beyond the limits of their bodies to accomodate too many demands and ambitions. Refusal to accept this need results not only in loss of functioning, but in eventual and involuntary subjugation to the need for sleep, which is as real as the need for food and water.
It seems increasingly clear that sleep does have a vital and necessary function, without which the body cannot make do for very long any more than it can without food or water. Deprived, it will suffer; and, in its efforts to restore the homeostatic balance of sleep and waking, it will make its demands imperative!
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