Scientists have revealed what happens to a person in the absence of sleep

What happens to a person if you do not give him the opportunity to sleep: for a day, two, a week? This question often arises among those who are concerned about their health, but for certain reasons suffer from lack of sleep - for example, shift workers or young mothers. Scientists have conducted experiments to obtain information about the processes that occur inside the body in the absence of sleep. What can happen to a person who is deprived of sleep?

• Day one. If you don't sleep for one day, nothing terrible will happen: your biorhythm will just be disrupted, which will inevitably manifest itself in an increased feeling of fatigue, temporary memory loss, and weakened concentration.
• Day two. If you do not sleep for two days, the concentration abilities of the brain and visual function will be impaired. A person will be practically unable to concentrate on anything - both mentally and visually.
• Day three. If you do not sleep for three days, you will have difficulties with motor coordination, problems with the nervous system. The person will become inhibited, his speech will become monotonous and emotionless. There will be a disorder of appetite, which most often becomes irrepressible: the feeling of satiety is lost. Paradoxically, at this stage the person will no longer be able to fall asleep on his own, due to a failure of the nervous system.
• Day four. If you don't sleep for four days, a person becomes easily excitable, irritable. The first hallucinations appear. Thoughts are given with great difficulty: even an ordinary problem for a first-grader may be unsolvable.
• Day five. If a person is without sleep for five days, his speech becomes completely incoherent. Hallucinations become part of reality for him.
• Day six. If you don't sleep for six days, auditory hallucinations will join the visual ones.
• Day seven. If you don't sleep for a week, a person becomes uncontrollable, inadequate, and has a constant headache.

In 1963, the record for staying awake was officially recorded: it was set by 18-year-old American, high school student Randy Gardner. He managed to do without sleep for eleven days. However, the consequences of such an experiment were very depressing: the guy seriously harmed his health. After just six days of insomnia, Randy showed the first signs of Alzheimer's disease, severe paranoia appeared: the young man mistook foreign objects for people, responded inadequately to other people's speech. He lost the ability to express his thoughts, his limbs constantly trembled. On the seventh day, liver problems appeared, and immunity dropped sharply. The guy practically lost his memory. As a result, after eleven days, doctors insisted on stopping the experiment: Randy had to undergo long and difficult rehabilitation treatment. There is only one conclusion: sleep is really very important for the human body. Lack of sleep, as well as lack of sleep, can lead to serious health consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to draw appropriate conclusions in a timely manner and establish high-quality and complete sleep.

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