Thursday, February 25, 2010
rant 3
topic for rant 3...what if we do not need to sleep?
well, firstly we will have a lot more time on our hands. which means, a lot more time to do the things we like, more time to spend with love ones...
but...
if we do not need to sleep, that means we have to go to work for 24hrs a day! there will be no reason for our bosses to give us time off to rest. It doesn’t seem fair. Right when you are exhausted after a stressful move or a big project at work, you come down with a cold. That’s no accident - sleep is essential to the immune system. Without adequate sleep, the immune system becomes weak, and the body becomes more vulnerable to infection and disease. Sleep is also a time of rest and repair to neurons. Neurons are the freeways of the nervous system that carry out both voluntary commands, like moving your arm, and involuntary commands, like breathing and digestive processes. Many hormones, substances produced to trigger or regulate particular body functions, are timed to release during sleep or right before sleep. Growth hormones, for example, are released during sleep, vital to growing children but also for restorative processes like muscle repair. so basicly, our body will fail and we will all die earlier. Is that worth having more time to spend when you are alive?
what are your thoughts?
10:41 AM By dAniEL