A Blog Entry Created by a Sleep Deprived

“Sleep deprivation can adversely affect brain function – Wikipedia.”

So this is why it seems like I have left my brain at home when I headed off to work this morning. Now I know how it feels like to be a star. And I’m not really liking it. I wonder how they can act in front of the camera having only some hours of sleep.

I had thirty minutes of it. I had a deadline that I did until 4:30 in the morning, wanting to beat it to be sent quickly to short run prints , then I woke up at 5:00 to prepare myself for office. I don’t do this often though. I cannot, especially now that I’ve read that entry from Wikipedia .

What is happening to my brain? Well, it is still functioning but not in its usual way. Here in the office, the first thing I did was put cold water to my mug with the coffee and sugar already in it. As a result, the combination won’t dissolve and I had wasted a valuable pack of coffee.

I am browsing through different web sites but I cannot really comprehend a thing. Add the fact that it was so dark outside when my shift was just starting. The rain wanted to fall down hard, but for some reason, it held itself back. I should know what it was thinking, I just stared at the black clouds over the window for the first hour of work.

Let me see the studies now that have been done related to sleep. These are still according to Wikipedia.

1.    The ability of rats to heal wounds is the same for rats who didn’t sleep for five days and the rats who were allowed to venture into dreamland.

Now I don’t know who made the study and why would they make a rat not sleep? Poor souls. If only they knew what was happening, they could have demanded a better brand of cheese. The Wiki entry didn’t say how those rats were able to stay awake that long.

2.    Now bear with me on this as it contains too hard to pronounce and comprehend scientific words for someone who is sleep deprived. The situation resulted in less secretion of cortisol the following day. This is due to the successive slow-wave kind of sleep. I think this is already for humans and no longer for rats.

It also said that sleep deprivation improves the activities on, drum roll, Hypothalamic-pituitary-ad renal axis that regulate the mood, immune system, the usage of energy, sex… But with the state that I am in now, the last thing that I would like to do is share the bed with someone. I want my bed. And I want to sleep for four days straight. Anyway that reaction will likewise suppress our growth hormones.

3.    Now this makes me want to drop this act and head off to dreamland myself. Several studies relate obesity with sleep deprivation.

Why do I only know that now? Gotta go. Gotta catch up on my zzzs before my weight starts zooming up.