Sleepers?

Author’s Note: In this piece, I decided to research Why People Sleep? It has been such a curious topic to me.

What would we do without sleep? Think about it, every night we clear out 8 hours of our days to just sleep. Why do we do this? Why do our bodies need sleep? Couldn’t we spend those 8 hours doing something more productive. In this essay you will learn about why humans need sleep to survive and why sleeping is so essential.

One reason we need sleep is for our well-being. Our bodies need to sleep just like they need to eat, and drink, and breath to survive. Sleeping lets our bodies rest from a long day and relax. Our bodies were not made to be moving and active all the time. Everyone needs their sleep because if they don’t they will get cranky and their bodies will collapse because of exhaustion. We as humans our up on our feet and moving constantly, our bodies just can’t keep up with our busy lifestyles without sleep. According to the New York Time’s survey that they took in 2012 90% of Americans don’t get enough sleep. To survive we as humans need to sleep to rest our bodies to maintain our well-being.

Although one of the main reasons we as humans need to sleep is because we need to rest our bodies another main reason we need sleep is because we need a break from our long days. According to curiousity.discovery.com dreaming is an opportunity to work out your emotional problems and experience your memories. Also according to the same site your dreams only occur in the first 90 minutes of sleeping which is when your body reenergizes the most. Lastly when we sleep our bodies reenergize, adjust hormone levels, promote morning alertness, and regulate feelings of hunger. A main part of why humans sleep is because of dreaming and because our bodies need to reenergize.

Sleeping is something that our bodies need to survive, without it we would be too lazy to every do anything because we were so exhausted. Yes exercising and being active is good, but without rest, none of us could do that. Without sleep we would be a reckless mess.