Humans and every creature on earth sleep – that is a known fact, no question about that; however, have you ever wondered what would happen if stopped sleeping altogether? After all, in this busy world, some scientist just might discover a pill that would keep us awake, forever!
Wouldn’t that be wonderful to stay awake for the rest of our lives without having to worry about a thing, without having regrets on our death beds because we had plenty of time in our hands to do everything there is we had wished to do?
Instead of going to sleep – and that is for 8 hours or a third of each day! – we will have more time to chat with our friends, play with our kids, work on important projects, make more money at work, and just about anything we want to accomplish.
Well, it might be possible that this could happen sometime in the future; that a scientist can create this super pill, yet there are dire consequences for people who do not sleep. AsapSCIENCE explains that the body needs sleep to rejuvenate itself, to repair various organs and tissues, and to create or eliminate certain chemicals necessary for the life.
If we do not sleep, even if we do not feel the drive to go to bed, we would be putting our bodies at stake. This could well mean we are killing ourselves, literally, by depriving ourselves of sleep!
We might survive some days without sleep but slowly, this will take a toll on our bodies. Major organs would eventually malfunction, especially the heart which repairs its tissues while we are sleeping. If the heart fails, a person would die. Do we really want for that to happen just because we wish to spend every single minute of the day awake? I don’t think so!
Here’s the interesting scientific explanation from AsapSCIENCE:
