| One of the biggest misconceptions about sleep is | | | | however does not confirm that lack of sleep can |
| that it if you go for a couple of days with no | | | | lead to insanity. Hallucinations and other signs of |
| sleep, you will end up losing your sanity. Eye | | | | lack of sleep mentioned above are temporary and |
| opening discoveries were made a few years ago, | | | | can be cured upon a good days sleep.One |
| and this has changed this great misunderstanding | | | | astonishing discovery made recently on the |
| about sleep.A man named Robert McDonald holds | | | | aspect of sleep is that sleep interferes with |
| the world record for having stayed up for almost | | | | memory. Memory has a very clear link with sleep. |
| nineteen days with no sleep. All that was reported | | | | An experiment conducted on individuals who had |
| was extreme drowsiness, and intense difficulty | | | | not gone to sleep for nearly two days showed |
| with concentration. Another person by the name | | | | that their memory retention on identifying |
| of Randy Gardener went without sleep for eleven | | | | individual faces was weak and difficult for the |
| days and again the same was reported.These | | | | subject. However the subjects were able to |
| cases cleared the biggest misconception about | | | | distinguish familiar faces from the unfamiliar ones |
| sleep, which was that sleep deprivation leads to | | | | with a positive outcome. This in some way can be |
| insanity. It is clear that sleep deprivation does not | | | | the reason from where, the false theory of |
| lead to you losing your sanity but in fact here is a | | | | insufficient sleep can lead to insanity, may have |
| really surprising fact for you. In a recent study on | | | | been derived.Many people today complain from |
| over one million participants, it was discovered | | | | the lack of sleep and blame many of their health |
| that those who slept less, actually went on to live | | | | problems due to the insufficient sleep. Experts |
| a longer life. This excludes the extra time gained | | | | argue that any association between sleep and |
| by sleeping less.In some cases, lack of sleep was | | | | health problems almost always emerge weak at |
| reported as a major problem. For example, many | | | | best and could without difficulty be explained by |
| insomniacs experience hallucinations, slow speech, | | | | other causes. |
| movement, reactions and poor concentration. This | | | | |