Did you sleep enough last night ?
How do you feel if you don't get enough sleep ? A high school student in America demand to find out about the effect of sleeplessness by creating an experiment for his school science project. He didn't sleep for almost 270 hours with a doctor looking after him carefully. Increadibly, It was seven day with out sleep and what would happen .
What effect did sleeplessness have on him ? 24 hours passed by , he began having problem in reading and watching television.The words and picture were too blur. In the third day, he started having troble doing thing with his hands. By the forth day, he was hallucinating. For example , when he saw a street sign, sometime , he thaught it was a person. Moreover , he also thought he was a famous football player. Over the next few day , his speech became so slurred that people couldn't understand him.He also had trouble remembering things. by the eleventh day , he couldn't pass a counting test. In the middle of the test he simply stopped counting .He couldn't remember what he was doing in that time. "hen he finally went to bed for sleep , he slept for almost 15 hours . In the second night , he slept for 12 hours , the third night he slept for 10 hours and by the forth night he had returned to his normal sleep schedule.
Even though he returned quickly , various scientists believe that being without sleep can be harmful and dangerous . They state that people should not follow his experiment . Tests on white rats have appeared how dangerous sleeplessness can be .
Reference : Linda Lee ,2002. Select Reading .New York: Oxford Press.
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