The Mystery of SLEEP!
Remember this scene from the movie - WANTED , where the villain was kept captured in an isolated ship and was provided with everything but sleep. Everyone enjoyed that scene where he struggled to keep his eyes open. Now imagine this happening to you, for some reason you were forced to remain awake for long hours at a stretch, lets take it to be for one or two days. What happens to you? Your head is heavy, your eyes are swollen and paining from inside. You will be full of grumpiness, grogginess, irritability, and forgetfulness. Gradually your head starts spinning and you start to hallucinate. You cannot think of anything but a BED. Just one day without sleep and see what happens to you. Scientists consider it as essential as air, water, and food for an effective human existence. No doubt why we spend almost one-third of our life sleeping. Such is the importance of sleep in our lives and yet we ignore it the most. Our ignorance scales to the extent that we don’t even know why we actua